Prompting doctors to ask adolescents and young adults about their gender identity may improve documentation of that information in electronic health records, according to a new study.
Documenting of gender identity "is really going to make a difference in what services are ultimately provided," said lead author Dr. Stanley R. Vance Jr. of the University of California, San Francisco.
Gender identity is how a people view themselves, that is, as male, female or something less specific. Gender identity may differ from the sex assigned at birth.
Vance and coauthor Dr. Veronika Mesheriakova say it's necessary to document a person . . .
