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The Impossibility of Informed Consent for Transgender Interventions: The Paradigm

The Impossibility of Informed Consent for Transgender Interventions: The Paradigm

April 27, 2020 | by Jane Robbins

Assisting a gender dysphoric patient in “transitioning” without laying out the full panoply of medical, psychological, and social consequences violates the physician’s ethical obligation to obtain truly informed consent. The first of two essays.

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