The transgender athlete : a guide for sports medicine providers /

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Imprint:London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2023]
©2023
Description:1 online resource (x, 154 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14145586
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Other authors / contributors:West, Amy M., editor.
ISBN:9780323916202
0323916201
9780323916196
0323916198
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from table of contents page (Elsevier ClinicalKey, viewed January 19, 2024).
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"--
Other form:Print version: Transgender athlete : a guide for sports medicine providers. London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2023] 9780323916196 0323916198