Clinical Track

Knowledge and Skills Building Workshops

12 - Gender-affirming Pregnancy Testing and Options Counseling

Poster Presenter(s)

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  Aiden Harrington, APN, CNM, AAHIVS

  Nurse Practitioner
  Howard Brown Health

  Nothing to disclose

This session provides guidelines for the facilitation of pregnancy testing and options counseling using gender-affirming and reproductive justice frameworks. It aims to deconstruct historically gendered language for anatomy, conception, and parenting and provides guidelines for offering and providing a pregnancy test and facilitating options counseling in a way that affirms an individual’s gender and family planning desires.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Define best practices for discussing family planning with trans- and non-binary individuals
• Demonstrate gender-affirming sexual health language
• Conduct reproductive options counseling with trans- and non-binary individuals

1. Define best practices for discussing family planning with trans- and non-binary individuals
2. Demonstrate gender-affirming sexual health language
3. Conduct reproductive options counseling with trans- and non-binary individuals