Physician Safety in the Provision of Gender-Affirming Medical and Surgical Care Resource List

Resources for proactively evaluating, and mitigating the potential of, as well as responding to threats of violence against the health system, clinical programs, and individual physicians (e.g., security, crisis communications) while maintaining services for transgender and gender diverse patients.

• American Bar Association – Transgender Resources

• American Occupational Therapy Association – Practice Essentials & DEI Toolkit
  Transgender & gender-diverse inclusive resources for your practice

• American Hospital Association – Building a Safe Workplace and Community: Mitigating the Risk of Violence

• American Hospital Association and the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety – Creating Safer Workplaces: A Guide to Mitigating Violence in Health Care Settings

• Human Rights Campaign Foundation – Online Harassment, Offline Violence: Unchecked Harassment of Gender-Affirming Care Providers and Children's Hospitals on Social Media, and its Offline Violent Consequences
  Published December 8, 2022. Accessed September 19, 2023.

• Massachusetts State Government Press Release – Healey-Driscoll Administration Reaffirms Protections for Gender-Affirming Care Providers and Patients
  Lieutenant Governor Driscoll, Secretary Walsh, Commissioner Goldstein, and Assistant Secretary Levine led a roundtable discussion with Massachusetts providers and advocates

• Office for the Assistant Secretary for Health – Office of Population Affairs. Gender Affirming Care and Young People 

• Office of Civil Rights Regarding Provision of Gender Affirming Care

• U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Safety and Health Administration – Workplace Violence 

• United States Attorney's Office (USAO) for the District Of Massachusetts End Hate Now Hotline
  1-83-END-H8-NOW
  1-833-634-8669

• Useful Articles

  • Garcia AD, Lopez X – How cisgender clinicians can help prevent harm during encounters with transgender patients
    AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(8):E753-761. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.753.

  • Liu M, Sandhu S, Keuroghlian AS – Achieving the triple aim for sexual and gender minorities
    N Engl J Med 2022; 387:294-297 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2204569.

  • Hadland SE – Professionals as targets in the culture wars
    Journal article. N Engl J Med 2022; 387:584-585 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2205560.