Table 7 Recommendations for normalization
- Encourage provider and staff comfort with the prospect of male and masculine patients being pregnant and giving birth. - Explicitly affirm transgender patients’ reproductive choices. o It may help some patients improve their relationship with their own experience. o It may improve the patient-provider relationship. - Specific points around which to enhance provider comfort and encourage normalization, include: o The desire to be pregnant o Choosing pregnancy before, concurrent with, or after transitioning medically, surgically, or socially o The choice to continue or terminate a pregnancy o The range of emotions patients may experience throughout the process of family creation o The choices parents make about how to feed their infants |