Principle of Subsidiarity
Barriers to Trans Healthcare
Role of Providers
Vocab
100

Which subprinciple is the following: 

Patients should hold decisional authority by default.

What is the default principle?

100

Age restrictions, parental consent laws, and insurance limitations that hinder youth autonomy are examples of...

What are policy and legal constraints?

100

Clinicians should provide all relevant information to allow patients to give ______ ______.

What is informed consent?

100

Medications that prevent the body from producing hormones that cause the physical changes of puberty.

What are puberty blockers?

200

Which subprinciple is the following: 

Higher-level decision-makers should only hold decisional authority if all lower-level decision makers clearly lack the capacity to make a decision consistent with the patient’s best interests, even with support.

What is the necessity subprinciple?

200

Stigma, discrimination, and unsupportive family/community contexts are examples of...

What are societal and cultural perspectives?

200

The set of societal norms, expectations, or ideals about how transgender people should look, behave, or transition to be seen as "valid" or "acceptable."

What is transnormativity?

200
The medical practice where hormones are given to patients to suppress characteristics of one's gender assigned at birth and/or to enhance characteristics of another gender.

What is hormone replacement therapy (HRT)?

300

Which subprinciple is the following:

Higher level decision-makers should only hold decisional authority if they are clearly better positioned to make a decision consistent with the patient’s best interests than all lower level decision-makers

What is the superiority principle?

300

Provider knowledge gaps, gatekeeping protocols, and lack of specialized resources delaying or denying care are examples of...

What are healthcare system limitations?

300

Establishing trust, allowing youth to change their minds without judgment, and leaving room for reflection are all examples of clinicians....

What is creating conditions for better decision-making?

300

the policy or practice on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates' supposed best interest

What is parentalism?