Understanding clinicians' strategies for providing gender-sensitive care: an exploration among pediatric rehabilitation health care providers.

Health care providers working within pediatric rehabilitation have several strategies for providing a gender-sensitive care approach to clients.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONClinicians should seek training (i.e., appropriate terminology, creating inclusive spaces) in how to recognize gender-based health vulnerabilities, especially among patients who identify as non-binary or transgender.Clinicians should make an effort to try to be aware of their own biases and not make gender-based assumptions.Advocacy, respecting patient values, preferences and needs are important aspects of providing gender-sensitive care.