In 2018, we published our fact sheet, Transgender Health & Medical-Legal Partnerships. Though the approach to using medical-legal partnerships to meet the needs of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people remains a core tool for addressing the social determinants of health for this population, the legal and legislative landscape has changed drastically in recent years. In addition to navigating insurance coverage; medical decision-making; legal name and gender marker changes; and discrimination in education, employment, housing/shelter, and public accommodations; TGD people now face stepped-up efforts to restrict their access to health care more broadly, including denial of gender-affirming care, and restrictions on accessing public spaces and speech.
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Transgender Legal Issues Panel
This talk is from the 2022 Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health Care Conference.
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- Transgender Health
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund – Health Insurance Medical Policies: Gender Dysphoria / Gender Reassignment
This page by the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund features most major insurance companies policies describing their criteria for adminstering coverage for gender-affirming treatment and procedures.
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- Patient Education Materials
- Transgender Health
National Center for Trans Equality – Trans Legal Services Network Directory
The National Center for Trans Equality has created a comprehensive state-by-state guide that provides information about law firms and attorneys that provide legal services to transgender and gender diverse people.
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- Patient Education Materials
- Transgender Health
What Providers Need to Know about Trans Legal Issues
Health care professionals play an important role not only in delivering health care, but also in assisting transgender patients with non-medical aspects of gender-affirmation. Health care professionals must provide documentation for insurance appeals, gender marker changes, or medical leave. Patients may tell providers of legal problems they are experiencing and ask for help with advocacy at school or work. Caring for minors raises challenges when parents disagree about treatments. In this talk from the 2020 Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health conference, participants will gain a basic understanding of legal issues facing trans people and the current state of legal protections available so that you can become an effective advocate and resource for trans patients.
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- Transgender Health
Transgender Legal Services and Medical-Legal Partnerships
Transgender people have unprecedented access to medical care, but pervasive health disparities persist. Widespread discrimination in health insurance, employment, housing and education, and barriers to obtaining accurate identity documents continue to undermine the health of transgender people. Health care providers play an important role in connecting patients to needed legal services. This can be effectively accomplished through integrated services of a medical-legal partnership that specifically meets the needs of transgender patients.
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- Transgender Health
What Health Care Providers Need to Know About Transgender Legal Issues
In this talk, Noah Lewis discusses legal issues that transgender people face and how health care providers play an important role in connecting patients to needed legal services including health insurance, employment, housing and education, and obtaining accurate identity documents.
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- Transgender Health
Fact Sheet: Transgender Health and Medical-Legal Partnerships
This fact sheet describes common social and legal needs that affect the health of transgender individuals, and ways integrated legal services can help meet those needs. It examines medical-legal partnership programs at three health care organizations and how they operate, and it shares stories of people benefiting from medical-legal partnership services.
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- Organizational Change
- Transgender Health
Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Children Whose Parents Are Involved in a Custody Dispute
Custody disputes involving transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children and adolescents require careful consideration due to the unique medical, social, and mental health needs of TGD youth. This is especially the case when one parent is less accepting of the child’s gender exploration/identity than the co-parent. Due to a lack of familiarity within family courts regarding TGD children, harmful misinformation has resulted in the more gender-affirming parent losing physical and/or legal decision-making custody of their TGD child to the non-affirming parent.
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- LGBTQIA+ Children and Youth
- Transgender Health
Interseccionalidad
Interseccionalidad Interseccionalidad sustantivo La académica especialista en asuntos legales Kimberlé Crenshaw desarrolló este concepto para describir las experiencias particulares de las mujeres negras que se enfrentan, a la misma vez, a los factores de discriminación racial y de género. La interseccionalidad es la idea de que las diversas identidades de una persona, en particular las […]
