Transgender Care Is Family Medicine: A Call to Action

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
² Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH.
³ Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine, Sutter Medical Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA.
⁵ University of Utah Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.
⁶ University of Massachusetts Chan Fitchburg Family Medicine, Fitchburg, MA.
⁷ Family Medicine, Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital, Warren, MI.
⁸ Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
⁹ Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, New York, NY.
¹⁰ University of Utah Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Salt Lake City, UT.

Erika Anne Sullivan et al. Fam Med. 2024 Apr.

. 2024 Apr;56(4):229-233.

doi: 10.22454/FamMed.2024.167363.

¹ Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
² Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH.
³ Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine, Sutter Medical Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA.
⁵ University of Utah Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.
⁶ University of Massachusetts Chan Fitchburg Family Medicine, Fitchburg, MA.
⁷ Family Medicine, Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital, Warren, MI.
⁸ Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
⁹ Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, New York, NY.
¹⁰ University of Utah Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Salt Lake City, UT.

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