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Experiences of Transgender and Nonbinary Patients in an Academic Family Medicine Clinic

Benjamin Kaplan, Kaylee Deardorff, Chichi Zhu and Riley Smith
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2024, 37 (6) 1072-1087; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2023.230445R2
Benjamin Kaplan
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (BK, RS); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC (KD, CZ).
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Kaylee Deardorff
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (BK, RS); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC (KD, CZ).
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Chichi Zhu
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (BK, RS); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC (KD, CZ).
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Riley Smith
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (BK, RS); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC (KD, CZ).
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