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Mental Health and Care Denial in Transgender Youth

JAMA Psychiatry 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.3151

November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST

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This Viewpoint discusses care denial for transgender youth forced by law and how health systems will need to invest resources to adjust to the expected emergence of mental health concerns, for which psychiatrists can play a key role in developing and implementing such programs locally.

Corresponding Author: Kristen L. Eckstrand, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 121 Meyran Ave, Loeffler Bldg 301, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (eckstrandkl@upmc.edu).

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