Clinician and Ethicist Perspectives: Understanding Moral Distress in Gender-Affirming Care for Pediatric Patients

Numerous clinical, ethical, legal, and social complexities contribute to shared decision-making challenges in caring for transgender and gender diverse youth. As clinicians and ethicists collaborating in a multidisciplinary pediatric transgender care program, we work to provide gender-affirming care to children and adolescents in the context of their family and community. Together, we represent the disciplines of pediatric psychology, psychiatry, and endocrinology, adolescent medicine, and clinical ethics.

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