Advancing kidney health justice for all requires the kidney-care community to embrace gender-affirming care across the life course, including inclusion of gender minority individuals in research, thoughtful attention to sexual-orientation and gender-identity data collection, as well as the promotion of policies and practices that protect and provide comprehensive care to all patients.
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Eckenrode, H.E., Flynn, J.T. & Mohottige, D. Advancing kidney health justice through gender-affirming care. Nat Rev Nephrol 18, 343–344 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41581-022-00575-y
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