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. 2020 May 1;174(5):501-503.
doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.6071.

Affirming Transgender Youths' Names and Pronouns in the Electronic Medical Record

Gina M Sequeira  1 , Kacie Kidd  1 , Robert W S Coulter  2 , Elizabeth Miller  1 , Robert Garofalo  3 , Kristin N Ray  4
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Affirming Transgender Youths' Names and Pronouns in the Electronic Medical Record

Gina M Sequeira et al. JAMA Pediatr. .

Abstract

This survey study assesses preferences concerning name and pronoun documentation in the electronic medical record and investigates how these preferences differ by demographic and gender-related characteristics among transgender youths seeking care at a specialty gender clinic.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Sequeira reported receiving grants from the National Institutes of Health/National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development during the conduct of the study. Dr Kidd reported receiving grants from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health during the conduct of the study. No other disclosures were reported.

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