Which intervention is most appropriate for the nurse to offer when helping a patient with gender dysphoria?
1. Promote comfort with the chosen gender role.
2. Encourage living as the individual's assigned gender.
3. Avoid patient discussions of hormonal treatment.
4. Discourage genital reassignment surgery.
Answer: 1
Explanation: Promoting comfort with the chosen gender role are an appropriate intervention. Discouraging genital reassignment surgery and avoiding patient discussions of hormonal treatment are not helpful and may impede the therapeutic relationship. Encouraging the patient to live as his or her assigned gender is not an effective intervention for gender dysphoria.
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