Bottom line up front, however: if you take away nothing else from this chapter, know that every major medical and mental health care professional organization in the US (including the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychiatric Association) officially supports access to affirming care for transgender people, and the necessity of treatment both legally and for insurance purposes.129 As such, the positions presented here are not simply my own, they are those of the vast majority of the medical profession.
