PMH Fellow, Marc Pollack, blogs on medical questions about gender identity:

Over the next week I wonder about how to appropriately ask about gender identity in the context of the patient interview.  I know what gender dysphoria is, but l have to admit I haven’t given much thought to any of this before. My intuition tells me to wait to ask about identity until you are further into the interview.  Deal with the patient’s presenting problems first. I asked a number of my colleagues and no one had a good answer. An Endocrinologist friend of mine  said he deals with most of that in a questionnaire that patients fill out in the waiting room. The medical literature was no help.

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