Health Care Experiences of Patients Discontinuing or Reversing Prior Gender-Affirming Treatments.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medical education, research, and clinical guidelines are available to support the initiation of gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary people. By contrast, little is known about the clinical experiences of those who discontinue or seek to reverse gender-affirming medical or surgical interventions due to a change in gender identity, often referred to as detransition.

Objective

To examine the physical and mental health experiences of people who initiated medical or surgical detransition to inform clinical practice.

Design, setting, and participants

Using constructivist grounded theory as a qualitative approach, data were collected in the form of in-depth interviews. Data were analyzed using an inductive 2-stage coding process to categorize and in

SUBMITTER: MacKinnon KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9315415 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature