Should clinicians make chest surgery available to transgender male adolescents?

Bioethicists are increasingly engaged in considering the ethical issues associated with the care of transgender people. One such issue facing paediatric clinicians is requests for chest surgery from transgender male adolescents. For transgender young people who identify as male but have already prog...

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Authors: McDougall, Rosalind (Author) ; Notini, Lauren (Author) ; Delany, Clare (Author) ; Telfer, Michelle (Author) ; Pang, Ken C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2021
In: Bioethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 7, Pages: 696-703
IxTheo Classification:NCH Medical ethics
Further subjects:B Adolescence
B chest surgery
B Transgender
B chest reconstruction
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