A small survey of military physicians found most did not receive any formal training on transgender care, most had not treated a patient with known gender dysphoria, and most had not received sufficient training to prescribe cross-hormone therapy, according to a new research letter published online by JAMA Internal Medicine. (sciencedaily.com)
The evaluation comes from a US Army report, published last week, which was prompted by allegations from 14 soldiers whose military physicians had diagnosed them with PTSD. (newscientist.com)
By October 2005, more than 300 cases had been reported, sending military physicians scrambling. (discovermagazine.com)