title: What's in a Guideline? Developing Collaborative and Sound Research Designs that Substantiate Best Practice Recommendations for Transgender Health Care.
abstract: Transgender medicine presents a particular challenge for the development of evidence-based guidelines, due to limitations in the available body of evidence as well as the exclusion of gender identity data from most public health surveillance activities. The guidelines that have been published are often based on expert opinion, small studies, and data gathered outside the US. The existence of guidelines, however, helps legitimate the need for gender-affirming medical and surgical interventions. Research conducted on transgender populations should be grounded in gender-affirming methodologies and focus on key areas such as health outcomes after gender-affirming interventions.
authors.affiliation: Associate professor of clinical family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she is also director of transgender care.
authors.forename: Madeline B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Deutsch
authors.affiliation: Director of research and education at the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at New York University in New York City.
authors.forename: Asa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Radix
authors.affiliation: Assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, an associate scientific researcher at Boston Children's Hospital, and an assistant professor of epidemiology at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University in Boston, and an affiliated research scientist at the Fenway Institute.
authors.forename: Sari
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Reisner
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006302:Health Services Research; D062985:Health Services for Transgender Persons; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards; D057829:Gender-Affirming Procedures; D063106:Transgender Persons; D014189:Transsexualism