Laura Targownik

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Laura Targownik, MD, MSHS, FRCPC, is an Associate Professor of Medicine

at the University of Toronto; Ontario Medical Association Tariff Lead, Section of Gastroenterology; Chair, Diversity and Equity, Canadian Association of Gastroenterology; and Staff Gastroenterologist at Mount Sinai Hospital.

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by Laura Targownik

My birth sex is part of my medical history; it should be as private as the rest of my medical history

Insisting on primary birth sex identification for trans people does little to improve the health of trans and gender diverse persons; it merely exchanges one theoretical set of adverse health care outcomes for others that are definite and far more impactful.

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