TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Health Care for Sexual & Gender Minority Patients
A1  - Obedin-Maliver, Juno
A1  - Robertson, Patricia A.
A1  - Ard, Kevin L.
A1  - Mayer, Kenneth H.
A1  - Deutsch, Madeline B.
A2  - Papadakis, Maxine A.
A2  - McPhee, Stephen J.
A2  - Rabow, Michael W.
Y1  - 2021
N1  - 
T2  - Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2021
AB  - The  term  sexual  and  gender  minorities  (SGM)  refers  to  a  broad  group  including  lesbian  women  and  gay  men;  bisexual,  pansexual,  and  queer  people;  and  transgender  and  gender  non-binary  people—also  commonly  referred  to  as  “LGBTQ”  or  “LGBTQ+.”  The  plus  sign  is  inclusive  of  individuals  of  other  identities  such  as  agender,  genderqueer,  and  polysexual.  Transgender  people  have  a  gender  identity  that  differs  from  the  sex  which  was  assigned  at  birth,  including  those  who  identify  as  non-binary  and  have  a  gender  identity  that  is  neither  male  nor  female.  Cisgender  refers  to  people  who  have  a  gender  identity  (a  person’s  internal  sense  of  gender)  and  birth  assigned  sex  that  are  the  same  (ie,  they  are  not  transgender).  Transgender  people  may  also  be  sexual  minorities  (ie,  lesbian  transgender  women  or  gay  transgender  men).  For  the  sake  of  expediency  in  this  chapter,  the  sections  on  sexual  minority  men  and  women  omit  the  term  “cisgender”;  however,  readers  of  content  in  these  sections  should  take  into  consideration  that,  for  example,  gay  transgender  men  may  have  vaginal  receptive  sex  with  cisgender  men  as  sexual  partners,  and  therefore  should  be  screened  for  contraception  needs,  and  cisgender  lesbian  women  may  have  transgender  women  partners  who  retain  their  penis.  A  growing  number  of  people  identify  as  pansexual,  which  describes  an  attraction  to  people  of  any  gender,  male,  female,  or  on  the  spectrum  between  the  two.  The  term  queer,  has  been  reclaimed  by  many  SGM  people  to  represent  someone  with  a  sexual  orientation  or  gender  identity  or  expression  that  differs  from  that  of  a  cisgender,  heterosexual  person.  Sexual  orientation  refers  to  a  deep-seated  sense  of  one’s  sexuality  that  encompasses  three  dimensions:  identity,  behavior,  and  desire.  Sexual  identities  include  gay  or  homosexual  (those  who  are  predominantly  attracted  to  and/or  sexually  active  with  members  of  the  same  gender),  bisexual  (those  who  are  attracted  to  and/or  sexually  active  with  someone  of  the  same  gender  and  another  gender  (historically  men  and  women),  and  heterosexual  or  straight  (someone  who  is  attracted  to  and/or  sexually  active  with  people  of  another  gender,  historically  the  “opposite”  gender);  however,  several  other  terms  may  be  used,  and  terminology  changes  over  time.  Studies  have  demonstrated  that  there  is  a  broad  diversity  among  those  who  identify  as  SGM  and  that  many  people  have  multiple  gender  identities  and/or  sexual  orientations.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2021/01/18
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1175798601
ER  -