Maddalena Giacomozzi

• Endometriosis Doctor at Radboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc)

CITATION Giacomozzi M, Muntinga M and Pezaro S (2025) Commentary: Effective communication about pregnancy, birth, lactation, breastfeeding and newborn care: the importance of sexed language. KEYWORDS gender equality, health equality, health disparities, perinatal care, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), inclusive language A commentar...

This study aimed to explore the experiences, needs, and interests of queer people who are also neurodivergent, or live with a chronic illness or disability (i.e. IMMI: individuals with multi-minority identities) in Italy and the Netherlands. Five focus groups were conducted in Italy with 22 queer IMMI to identify their most relevant topics regardin...

Background Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people embody social and health inequalities that disproportionately affect this community more than the cisgender population. Endometriosis is a chronic condition of the reproductive tract that affects 5–10% of cisgender women. A recent systematic review with meta-analysis uncovered a pooled prevalen...

BACKGROUND Fibrosis is an important pathological feature of endometriotic lesions of all subtypes. Fibrosis is present in and around endometriotic lesions, and a central role in its development is played by myofibroblasts, which are cells derived mainly after epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transdifferenti...

Objectives The study aims to gain insights in endometriosis experiences among transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people living with endometriosis and the care they (do not) receive. The objective is to set an agenda to narrow gaps in literature, and to identify relevant recommendations regarding endometriosis care for this community for different...

In de maatschappij is er steeds meer aandacht voor gen-derdiversiteit waardoor transgender en genderdiverse (TGD) personen zichtbaarder worden. Alhoewel er lang-zaamaan meer aandacht voor is in de zorg, is het onder-werp voor veel zorgverleners onderbelicht geweest in de medische opleiding en bij nascholingen. Niet elke zorgver-lener voelt zich bek...

LGBT+ asylum seekers face multiple challenges in their countries of origin as well as in their host countries. Violence and structural discrimination against this community are common and affect their whole asylum process. Violence and structural discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity stress the needs of LGBT+ asylum seekers...

Purpose: Since 2014 in the Netherlands, sterilization is no longer required for legal gender affirmation. Access to fertility preservation (FP) options is indispensable to grant equal reproductive rights to this population. This study aims to map existing literature on barriers and enabling factors for trans masculine individuals to access FP in th...

Obstetric violence is a pervasive phenomenon in reproductive health across the world. Denial of the choice in birth position is a common form of obstetric violence as horizontal positions are non–evidence based, yet routinely imposed. This contributes to the cultural barriers to access reproductive health care. The present study compares women's ex...