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UCI Gender Diversity Program

Dedicated to transgender and gender-expansive individuals, offering counseling, hormone therapy, and community support. Learn about gender identity, expression, and affirming care.

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UCI Gender Diversity Program

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  1. UCIGender Diversity Program Brit Cervantes Lynn Hunt, MD

  2. Our Team • Lynn Hunt MD, Pediatrician, Program Director • Ajanta Naidu MD, Endocrinologist • Jeffrey Vu, FNP • Brit Cervantes, Program Coordinator • (Coming soon, mental health professional) • Collaborate with community programs, local therapists, UCI Family Medicine, Endocrinology, &… researchers??

  3. What We Do • The UC Irvine Pediatric Gender Diversity Program is dedicated to caring for transgender and gender-expansive children, teens and young adults.

  4. What We Do • Reduce Barriers to Care • Patient and family counseling • Puberty suppression • Gender-affirming hormone therapy • Community connections and support • Sexual Health resources

  5. Terms • Sex assigned at birth: is the biological sex determined at birth. This is often determined by external anatomy or chromosomes. • Generally AFAB, AMAB • Intersex: refers to a person whose body is not typically male or female, or whose anatomy is not concordant with genetic sex.

  6. Terms • Gender Identity: A person’s internal, deeply felt knowledge of being male, female, something else or in between. • Gender Expression: Outward expression of maleness, femaleness or other. Characteristics and behaviors such as appearance, dress and speech patterns, that are perceived as masculine or feminine.

  7. Sexual Orientation v Gender Identity • Sexual Orientation: refers to an individual’s enduring pattern of physical, romantic, emotional and/or spiritual attraction toward other persons. • The only way to know a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity for them to tell you.

  8. Terms • Transgender: commonly just “trans,” is a person whose gender identity does not match their sex assigned at birth. • Cisgender: commonly just “cis,” is a person whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth.

  9. Terms • Affirmed Name: Name that individual uses, may be in place of legal name. • “Preferred” Pronouns: are gender pronouns that a person would like to us to use.

  10. Gender-Affirming Care • Gender affirming care refers to interventions that help a transgender person present in a way that feels authentic to their inner sense of who they are. • A transgender person’s transition can include a wide variety of interventions

  11. Social and Legal Transition • Social transition - process that a trans person may take to let others know about their gender identity. Friends, family, colleagues. May also include items of gender expression/perception. • Legal transition – change in name &/or gender marker. The process includes updating documents like a drivers license, birth certificate, passport, etc.

  12. Medical Transition • Medical intervention is not a necessary step for every trans person • Hormone replacement therapy and/or gender affirming surgeries are often important steps that transgender people take to transition.

  13. Implementation of Best Practices

  14. How to be more trans affirming? • Be respectful of a person’s name and pronouns. • Not sure? Ask politely or introduce yourself with what pronouns you use. • Allow patients to use a preferred name regardless of current legal name.

  15. How to be more trans affirming? • Remember that it is OKAY to make mistakes. If you mis-gender or misname a patient, correct yourself and continue. • Continue to educate yourself about the transgender community and hear their stories.

  16. Avoid Assumptions • Not everyone is straight, or cisgender. • Pronouns don’t always match gender presentation or sex assigned at birth. • Being part of the LGBT community doesn’t always mean their sexual practices puts them at high risk.

  17. Resources • LGBT Centers – local LGBTQ resource centers in Long Beach and Santa Ana • GLMA(health professionals for equality in healthcare) – provider directory that any interested health professional can join • Trans Lifeline–crisis intervention and suicide prevention services: 877-565-8860 • Fenway Institute – online education • Center of Excellence for Transgender Health • UC Irvine Pediatric Gender Diversity Program • WPATH – World professional association for Transgender Health

  18. OtherLGBT-FriendlyIdeas • Visual symbols to signal welcoming environment. • Post anti-discrimination policies. • Make intake forms and EHRs more inclusive.

  19. QUESTIONS? Contact Info: Brit Cervantes, Program Coordinator Email: britc@uci.edu Phone: (714) 456-6025

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