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Chapter 3: Creating Gender-Affirming Healthcare Spaces

Abstract

Trans and gender-diverse patients face significant barriers to respectful, comprehensive healthcare. Provider ignorance shouldn't be one of them. TRANSforming Nursing Education supplies the context to help readers understand the gaps and missteps in providing healthcare to this marginalized population and explains how we can better treat these patients.

Author Christine Rodriguez tackles tough subjects and tough statistics head on. This no-nonsense guide is packed with inclusive case studies, immersive simulation-based scenarios, checklists, and ready-to-use templates on everything from social transitioning to hormone therapy to surgeries and potential complications, all with thoughtful, reflective questions to guide readers in their understanding of the gender-diverse community. The book answers key questions, like:

  • What is the difference between sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression,
  • and sexual orientation?
  • How can we improve healthcare education and onboarding to better serve
  • trans and gender-diverse patients?
  • What is binary language, and how does it impact trans and gender-diverse
  • people?
  • What barriers in healthcare settings marginalize trans and gender-diverse
  • patients, and how can we be more inclusive and better meet their needs?
  • What types of medical and surgical interventions are available for individuals
  • who wants to affirm their gender identity?

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Author Details

Christine Rodriguez, DNP, MDiv, MA, APRN, FNP-BC, FAAN, FNYAM, she/they/ella, serves as faculty and the Assistant Dean of Simulation and Clinical Innovation at Yale University School of Nursing. She is also an affiliate faculty member at the Yale Institute for Global Health. Rodriguez’s scholarly inquiry encompasses 2SLGBTQIA+ healthcare with specializations in gender-affirming care, Native and Indigenous health, innovative technologies within healthcare simulation, intersectional stigma, entheogens and human consciousness, as well as advocating for the importance of religion and spirituality in healthcare settings.

Sigma Membership

Delta Mu

Lead Author Affiliation

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Book Chapter

ISBN

9781646480821

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Text-based Document

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Expert Opinion (nationally/internationally recognized)

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Keywords:

Transgender Healthcare, Nursing Education, Sex, Gender, Biology

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Sigma Theta Tau International

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Copyright © 2025 by Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing - All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Any trademarks, service marks, design rights, or similar rights that are mentioned, used, or cited in this book are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for a similar or any other purpose.

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[Excerpt from] TRANSforming Nursing Education: Infusing Gender-Sensitive Care into Healthcare

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