Advanced Topics in Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy: Challenges and Complications

PAs provide gender-affirming hormone therapy in primary care and specialty care settings. This interactive, case-based session will focus on navigating advanced prescribing challenges and complications faced by PAs when providing masculinizing and feminizing gender-affirming care to adult transgender and gender non-binary patients. After a brief review of the foundations of gender-affirming care, this session will delve into the following: pros and cons regarding hormone formulation, managing medication side effects, contraception considerations, adjunctive therapies, peri- and post-operative management, significant laboratory abnormalities, and management and care for non-binary patients. PAs will leave this session prepared to manage complications and challenges in providing masculinizing and feminizing hormone therapy to adult transgender and gender non-binary patients.