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Communicating with LGBTQ patients

Get to know the LGBTQ population using a series of free learning modules from the Fenway Institute.

Population Health
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Transgender prisoners have fundamental right to appropriate care

In legal battle over transgender health, physicians say that when clinical intervention is required, it should be available in all settings.

Judicial Advocacy
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Exclusionary bathroom policies harm transgender students

Transgender students’ health, safety and well-being is jeopardized when they’re forced to use bathrooms that don’t match gender identity, physicians say.

Judicial Advocacy
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AMA statement on Pentagon's ban on transgender in military

As Pentagon's ban on transgender in military goes into effect, AMA says no medical basis for referring to gender transition as a “deficiency."

Press Releases
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Supreme Court looks to AMA for guidance in big health care cases

The AMA’s input has helped shape rulings on everything from alcoholism and transgender rights to medical privacy and the Affordable Care Act.

Judicial Advocacy
Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH
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Navy veteran: The AMA stands up for LGBTQ people in the military

Fight to make service open to all continues. A physician leader and combat veteran highlights AMA’s advocacy for vets and LGBTQ people in the military.

Population Health
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AMA policy supporting survivors of LGBTQ intimate partner violence

The policy calls for physician awareness of IPV among LGBTQ patients, and funding for programs and services for survivors that do not discriminate against communities.

Press Releases
AMA member Magda Houlberg, MD, chief medical officer at Howard Brown Health in Chicago
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Better training needed to address shortcomings in LGBTQ care

Social and legal barriers are being hurdled, but LGBTQ medical care has room for improvement, expert panelists said at the AMA’s Chicago headquarters.

Population Health
Two bathroom doors, one male and the other female
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Do students have right to use bathroom matching gender ID?

The medical community tells a federal court that when transgender students use a single-sex bathroom matching their gender identity, the students’ health and well-being is improved.

Judicial Advocacy