{"title":"Perspectives on Telehealth and the Transgender Community","authors":"Heather Tillewein","doi":"10.1007/s41134-024-00330-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Telehealth, and telemedicine, has been an innovative tool that has helped the patient-physician relationship. Telehealth has allowed for healthcare to become accessible to rural and underserved populations. Telehealth has reduced these barriers that transgender individuals face when seeking gender-affirming care. Tennessee legislation has fought to obtain medical records of those who seek abortions and gender-affirming care outside of the state. With the ban of gender-affirming care of minors in Tennessee, telehealth is now being used as a tool for legislators to prosecute the transgender individuals. Weaponizing telehealth creates a distrust within the healthcare community, including social workers, with treating transgender patients. This article discusses the implications of Tennessee laws, the professional violations of ethics, and advocates for transgender healthcare.</p>","PeriodicalId":15919,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Rights and Social Work","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Human Rights and Social Work","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-024-00330-2","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"SOCIAL WORK","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Telehealth, and telemedicine, has been an innovative tool that has helped the patient-physician relationship. Telehealth has allowed for healthcare to become accessible to rural and underserved populations. Telehealth has reduced these barriers that transgender individuals face when seeking gender-affirming care. Tennessee legislation has fought to obtain medical records of those who seek abortions and gender-affirming care outside of the state. With the ban of gender-affirming care of minors in Tennessee, telehealth is now being used as a tool for legislators to prosecute the transgender individuals. Weaponizing telehealth creates a distrust within the healthcare community, including social workers, with treating transgender patients. This article discusses the implications of Tennessee laws, the professional violations of ethics, and advocates for transgender healthcare.
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This journal offers an outlet for articles that support social work as a human rights profession. It brings together knowledge about addressing human rights in practice, research, policy, and advocacy as well as teaching about human rights from around the globe. Articles explore the history of social work as a human rights profession; familiarize participants on how to advance human rights using the human rights documents from the United Nations; present the types of monitoring and assessment that takes place internationally and within the U.S.; demonstrate rights-based practice approaches and techniques; and facilitate discussion of the implications of human rights tools and the framework for social work practice.
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