Meaningful Ways to Be a Gender Inclusive Birth Care Provider

This article outlines the four cornerstones of medical ethics: non-malfeasance, beneficence, justice, and autonomy. It explores how a birth care provider can use them when working with non-binary, trans, and queer families. It also outlines ways that birth care providers can make their practices more gender inclusive.

When the question, “Why should professionals make it a point to be inclusive of enby, trans, and queer families besides just basic respect?” comes up, I am struck by this answer: Because medical ethics says providers should be inclusive.

SOURCE: Birthing Advocacy Doula Training • AUTHOR: Jacob Engelsmen • LAST UPDATED: July 14, 2022