Understanding Provider Treatment Approaches for the Provision of Gender-Affirming Hormones in the Current US Political Climate.

Transgender people's access to gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is under attack in the United States. In 2024, we interviewed US providers about how they prescribe GAHT. In accordance with informed consent models, providers reported that they reviewed patients' medical history, social supports, and comorbidities; prescribed GAHT formulations that aligned with patients' goals; monitored health regularly; and maintained open communication with patients.

Understanding biopsychosocial factors influencing cigarette smoking among transgender and gender diverse individuals living in Argentina: a qualitative study.

Background: The prevalence of cigarette smoking among transgender women in Argentina is 42%, more than double the rate compared to cisgender women.

Objectives: To understand biopsychosocial factors influencing cigarette smoking among transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals living in Argentina.

Methods: Between December 2023 and January 2024, 19 qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted face-to-face with TGD individuals.

Underinvested, Under-Referred, and Underserved: Applying a Gender Equity Continuum Framework in Cancer Control Continuum Programs and Policies to Expand to Transgender and Nonbinary Populations.

Gender-inclusive and gender-specific approaches are critically needed in cancer control continuum services to recognize and meet the needs of transgender and nonbinary (trans) populations. Current research, programs, and policies largely cater to cisgender populations and subscribe to a binary, gendered cisnormative ideology, both within health care systems and insurance policies, leaving trans people's cancer prevention and treatment needs neglected. Such disparities can be attributed to the significant gap in funding and research to address trans cancer prevention and treatment.

Gender-Affirming Surgery for Transgender and Gender Diverse Medicare Beneficiaries.

Importance: Medicare covers gender-affirming surgical procedures on a case-by-case basis. The proportion of Medicare beneficiaries who receive gender-affirming surgical procedures is unknown.

Objective: To examine the frequency and trends of gender-affirming surgical procedures for Medicare beneficiaries.

Disentangling gender, sex, and biology: a mixed methods study of gender identity data collection tools.

Objectives: We used community-based mixed methods to test whether transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people preferred gender identity questions developed by community members over current questions in use and generate hypotheses about data collection preferences.

Methods: We interviewed twenty TGD adults in English and Spanish, asking them to rate and discuss their responses to questions. We analyzed quantitative data with descriptive statistics and qualitative data with template analysis, then integrated them.

Doing Justice: Ethical Considerations Identifying and Researching Transgender and Gender Diverse People in Insurance Claims Data.

Data on the health of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people are scarce. Researchers are increasingly turning to insurance claims data to investigate disease burden among TGD people. Since claims do not include gender self-identification or modality (i.

Does cancer clinical trial enrollment for sexual and gender minority people differ from heterosexual, cisgender people?

Background: Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people experience cancer disparities compared to heterosexual and cisgender (non-SGM) people and likely have barriers to cancer clinical trial enrollment. Data are sparse, however, regarding cancer clinical trial enrollment for SGM versus non-SGM people.

Methods: Using data from the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS), we applied a logistic regression to assess associations between SGM status and clinical trial enrollment for 346 SGM and 9441 non-SGM people diagnosed with cancer.

Transgender People's Experiences Sharing Information With Clinicians: A Focus Group-Based Qualitative Study.

Purpose: Investigating transgender people's experiences sharing health information in clinical encounters may yield insights for family medicine clinicians.

Methods: This was a qualitative study using a community-based participatory research approach and interpretive description methodology. Seven qualitative focus groups were conducted with 30 transgender adults living in North America.

Partnering With Patients and Caregivers in Cancer Care: Lessons From Experiences With Transgender, Hispanic, and Pediatric Populations.

A cancer diagnosis thrusts patients and caregivers into a foreign world of health care with systems, protocols, and norms that can leave little room for individual needs and circumstances. Quality and efficacious oncology care requires clinicians to partner with patients and caregivers to understand and incorporate their needs, values, and priorities into information sharing, decision making, and care provision. This partnership is necessary for effective patient- and family-centered care and access to individualized and equitable information, treatment, and research participation.

Methodologic Approaches for Using Electronic Medical Records to Identify Experiences of Violence in Transgender and Cisgender People: Closing the Gap Between Diagnostic Coding and Lived Experiences.

Background: Transgender people experience extreme rates of violence and the electronic medical record (EMR) remains a mostly untapped resource to study the medical sequelae of such experiences.

Objectives: To develop and test a method for identifying experiences of violence using EMR data.

Research Design: Cross-sectional study utilizing EMR data.

Sexual and gender minority cultural humility training for oncology settings: An example of iterative adaptation and implementation.

Background: Multiple national organizations recommend that cancer care providers and oncology practices be responsive to the needs of sexual and gender minority (SGM) patients. Oncology practices have attempted to incorporate this recommendation through SGM-focused cultural humility training interventions. It is unclear how best to adapt and implement such training across practices.

Gender- and Sexual Orientation- Based Inequities: Promoting Inclusion, Visibility, and Data Accuracy in Oncology.

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people, including agender, asexual, bisexual, gay, gender diverse, genderqueer, genderfluid, intersex, lesbian, nonbinary, pansexual, queer, and transgender people, comprise approximately 10% or more of the U.S. population.

Experiences of Transgender People Reviewing Their Electronic Health Records, a Qualitative Study.

Background: The 21st Century Cures Act and the OpenNotes movement have brought patients immediate access to their electronic health records (EHRs). The experiences of marginalized people, including transgender people, accessing and reviewing their EHRs could inform documentation guidelines to improve patient-clinician rapport and reduce harm.

Objective: To investigate the experiences of transgender people reviewing EHRs.

An international analysis evaluating frontline bendamustine with rituximab in extranodal marginal zone lymphoma.

Extranodal marginal zone lymphoma (EMZL) is a heterogeneous non-Hodgkin lymphoma. No consensus exists regarding the standard-of-care in patients with advanced-stage disease. Current recommendations are largely adapted from follicular lymphoma, for which bendamustine with rituximab (BR) is an established approach.

"I'm a transgender man… I have to quit smoking for treatment and surgery": Describing the experience of a Latino transgender man during his attempt to quit smoking.

Objective: To describe the experience of a Latino transgender man during his attempt to quit smoking using a text messaging intervention.

Methods: A Latino transgender man enrolled in a smoking cessation randomized controlled trial for Latino smokers. The participant was randomized to Decídetexto, a smoking cessation mobile intervention.

I'm not putting on that floral gown: Enforcement and resistance of gender expectations for transgender people with cancer.

Objectives: Understanding barriers to care for transgender people with cancer is necessary to increase oncologic care access. Little has been published regarding the experiences of transgender people with cancer. We sought to explore these experiences, assess barriers to oncologic care, and elucidate potential solutions.

Identification of Transgender People With Cancer in Electronic Health Records: Recommendations Based on CancerLinQ Observations.

Purpose: Cancer prevalence and outcomes data, necessary to understand disparities in transgender populations, are significantly hampered because gender identity data are not routinely collected. A database of clinical data on people with cancer, CancerLinQ, is operated by the ASCO and collected from practices across the United States and multiple electronic health records.

Methods: To attempt to identify transgender people with cancer within CancerLinQ, we used three criteria: (1) International Classification of Diseases 9/10 diagnosis (Dx) code suggestive of transgender identity; (2) male gender and Dx of cervical, endometrial, ovarian, fallopian tube, or other related cancer; and (3) female gender and Dx of prostate, testicular, penile, or other related cancer.