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Transgender Health Flashcards

1
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One’s internal sense of being male/female/neither/both

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Gender Identity

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Physical manifestation of one’s gender through clothes, hairstyle, etc.

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Gender Expression

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Romantic and sexual orientation

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Sexual Orientation

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4
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Who someone has sex with

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Sexual behavior

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What defines Transgender?

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Gender identity is NOT congruent with Sex assigned at birth

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Transgender Female/Transfeminine

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Sex assigned at birth = male

Gender identity = female

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Transgender Male/Transmasculinization

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Sex assigned at birth = female

Gender identity = male

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Gender Non-binary

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Gender identity falls outside the traditional gender binary

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Gender Queer

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Gender identity is neither, between or both male and female

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Cisgender

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Gender identity is aligned with sex assigned at birth

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Does sexual orientation always follow gender identity?

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NO

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What is Gender Dysphoria?

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Distress related to the incongruence of gender identity and sex assigned at birth

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Distress related to the incongruence between sex assigned at birth and gender identity

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Gender Dysphoria

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What is Gender Affirmation/Transition?

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Process of recognizing, accepting and expressing gender identity

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Gender Affirmation/Transition often refers to a period when?

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Person makes visible changes to affirm gender identity outwardly

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16
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Is there a linear path to transition?

17
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Transgenders may or may not seek medical/surgical therapies for gender affirmation. You should give the ____ care

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Individualized care

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What is given for Masculinizing Hormone Therapy?

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Testosterone

19
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How is Testosterone given? Why?

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Injection or Topical

–> oral = hepatotoxic

20
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What are the risks of Masculinizing Hormone Therapy with Testosterone?

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  • Polycythemia/Erythrocytosis
  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  • Hyperlipidemia
21
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What is given for Feminizing Hormone Therapy?

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Estradiol + Androgen Blocker (spironolactone)

22
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What Androgen Blocker is given for Feminizing Hormone Therapy in order to block Testosterone?

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Spironolactone (K+ sparing diuretic)

23
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What should you monitor with Feminizing Hormone Therapy?

A

Estradiol + Spironolactone (androgen blocker)

– monitor BP and K+ levels!

24
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What are the risks of Feminizing Hormone Therapy with Estradiol + Androgen Blocker?

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  • VTE (esp. smokers)

- Decreased libido, loss of erectile function

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Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy allows for the acquisition of secondary sex characteristics that are more aligned with gender identity. What is the end result?
"second puberty" - - may take years - - physical, emotional and sexual changes
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What are 3 Gender-Affirming Surgeries for the Transmasculine patient?
- Mastectomy - Metoidioplasty - elongate clitoris - Phalloplasty - creation of neo phallus
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What are 3 Gender-Affirming Surgeries for the Transmasculine patient?
- Mastectomy - Metoidioplasty - elongation of clitoris - Phalloplasty - creation of neo phallus
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What are 4 Gender-Affirming Surgeries for the Transfeminine patient?
- Vaginoplasty - creation of vagina - Breast augmentation - Tracheal shave - reducing adam's apple - Facial Feminization surgery
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What are 4 Gender-Affirming Surgeries for the Transfeminine patient?
- Vaginoplasty - creation of vagina - Breast augmentation - Tracheal shave - reducing adam's apple - Facial Feminization Surgery
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What should you give your patients BEFORE starting hormone therapy?
Fertility preservation options - - sperm banking - - egg freezing
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What should you give your patient BEFORE starting hormone therapy?
Fertility preservation options - - sperm banking - - egg freezing
32
What may reduce Transgender's fertility?
Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy
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Does Hormone Therapy act as a form of contraception?
NO
34
Hormone therapy may reduce fertility but does it act as a form of contraception?
NO
35
When it comes to cancer screening, what should you screen?
Organs that are present
36
For the Transmasculine patient, what cancer screenings should be done?
- Cervical | - Breast
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For the Transfeminine patient, what cancer screening should be done and when?
Breast | -- after age 50 if they have been on feminizing hormones for more than 5 years
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Transfeminine patients should get a breast cancer screen after age 50 if?
They have been exposed to feminizing hormones for more than 5 years

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