Maggie Ruderman's research while affiliated with Boston University and other places

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Many transgender individuals want to have children and are pursuing reproductive care. Limited research has described the experiences of transgender individuals during pregnancy, and no known studies have examined reproductive genetic counseling sessions with this patient population. To understand what topics and considerations are explored within...

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... Historically, within the genetic counseling profession, there have been limited educational opportunities for genetic counselors (GCs) to learn about gender-affirming care. Several studies have shown GCs feel underprepared to work with TGD patients and desire more TGD-specific training Ruderman et al., 2021;Zayhowski et al., 2019). Keeping this gap in mind, we created a community-based learning cycle in partnership with a TGD advisory board (TGDAB), with the goal of increasing GC knowledge and self-efficacy (Caldwell et al., 2018;Keller et al., 2019) (Figure 1). ...