Gender Affirming Hormone Treatment for Trans Adolescents: A Four Principles Analysis.

IF 1.8 3区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-19 DOI:10.1007/s11673-023-10313-z
Hane Htut Maung
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Abstract

Gender affirming hormone treatment is an important part of the care of trans adolescents which enables them to develop the secondary sexual characteristics congruent with their identified genders. There is an increasing amount of empirical evidence showing the benefits of gender affirming hormone treatment for psychological health and social well-being in this population. However, in several countries, access to gender affirming hormone treatment for trans adolescents has recently been severely restricted. While much of the opposition to gender affirming hormone treatment for trans adolescents has in part been ideologically motivated, it also reflects a debate about whether there are harms that outweigh the benefits of the treatment. Accordingly, a systematic and comprehensive philosophical analysis of the ethics of gender affirming hormone treatment for trans adolescents is needed. Herein, I offer such an analysis that draws on the four principles of biomedical ethics by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress. Based on the considerations of beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, I argue that the provision of access to gender affirming hormone treatment for consenting trans adolescents is ethically required and that the current restrictions to such treatment are ethically wrong.

变性青少年的性别肯定激素治疗:四项原则分析。
性别平权激素治疗是变性青少年护理的一个重要部分,可使他们发展出与其所确认的性别相一致的第二性征。越来越多的实证证据表明,性别平权激素治疗对变性青少年的心理健康和社会福祉大有裨益。然而,在一些国家,变性青少年接受性别平权激素治疗最近受到严格限制。虽然反对为变性青少年提供性别平权激素治疗在一定程度上是出于意识形态的动机,但这也反映了人们对这种治疗是否弊大于利的争论。因此,有必要对变性青少年接受性别肯定激素治疗的伦理问题进行系统而全面的哲学分析。在此,我借鉴汤姆-博尚普(Tom Beauchamp)和詹姆斯-柴尔德里斯(James Childress)的生物医学伦理学四原则,提出这样一种分析方法。基于 "受益"、"非渎职"、"自主 "和 "公正 "的考虑,我认为,从伦理上讲,为同意接受治疗的变性青少年提供获得性别肯定激素治疗的机会是必要的,而目前对这种治疗的限制从伦理上讲是错误的。
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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 医学-医学:伦理
CiteScore
5.20
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8.30%
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67
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: The JBI welcomes both reports of empirical research and articles that increase theoretical understanding of medicine and health care, the health professions and the biological sciences. The JBI is also open to critical reflections on medicine and conventional bioethics, the nature of health, illness and disability, the sources of ethics, the nature of ethical communities, and possible implications of new developments in science and technology for social and cultural life and human identity. We welcome contributions from perspectives that are less commonly published in existing journals in the field and reports of empirical research studies using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The JBI accepts contributions from authors working in or across disciplines including – but not limited to – the following: -philosophy- bioethics- economics- social theory- law- public health and epidemiology- anthropology- psychology- feminism- gay and lesbian studies- linguistics and discourse analysis- cultural studies- disability studies- history- literature and literary studies- environmental sciences- theology and religious studies
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