The transgender athlete : a guide for sports medicine providers /

"The Transgender Athlete: A Guide for Sports Medicine Providers presents sports medicine practitioners insights into the unique issues and concerns of transgender athletes in order to help them understand rules regarding transgender athlete participation and learn how to better provide competen...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: West, Amy M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2023]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"The Transgender Athlete: A Guide for Sports Medicine Providers presents sports medicine practitioners insights into the unique issues and concerns of transgender athletes in order to help them understand rules regarding transgender athlete participation and learn how to better provide competent care to transgender athletes. There are over 1.4 million transgender adults in the United States. Transgender individuals undergo gender-affirming treatments including sex hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery. An increasing number of transgender people are participating in sports and presenting to sports medicine clinics with injuries, yet there is little research about this athlete population"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 154 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780323916202
0323916201