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Fostering transgender patients’ sense of agency should be a clinical and ethical priority.

This charcoal gesture drawing, inspired by a mid-adolescent nonbinary patient, investigates a caregiver’s and patient’s journey from despair to hope.

Author Ryan Sallans discusses his experience accessing health care and suggests how to take good gynecological care of transmen.

Eliminating cervical cancer inequality means transmen need regular, unimpeded access to regular Pap screening.

Surgeons can have an impact on patients and communities that goes well beyond the operating room. This month on Ethics Talk, we discuss how the concept of "surgical justice" can help plastic surgeons deliver better care topatients and communities.

Adolescents with gender dysphoria should be active participants in decisions about their gender-related health care.

This month, AMA Journal of Ethics' theme editor Cameron Waldman, a second-year medical student at Albany Medical College, interviewed Aron Janssen, MD, about how healthcare professionals can better serve their transgender patients.

“Born that way” arguments have been used to establish transgender rights, but lack scientific evidence. Stronger support for promoting transgender rights comes instead from human rights-based language.

Physicians should extend gender-affirming treatment to gender-nonconforming people, who experience discrimination and health disparities.

Research should be conducted on transgender populations to inform evidence-based guidelines for gender-affirming treatment.