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Public accommodation laws (PALs) are used to address discrimination against minorities. There is broad discussion about using such laws to either protect or prohibit access to sex-segregated spaces for transgender people. Health care facilities are subject to PALs, which affect rooming assignments and access to sex-segregated environments. Around the time that a Massachusetts transgender PAL went into effect in October 2016, the first author (EB) facilitated 18 professional trainings at 5 health care facilities in greater Boston. During these trainings, staff repeatedly brought up 2 areas of moral concern reflecting public conversations about transgender rights: risk posed by the presence of transwomen in sex-segregated spaces and feelings of unpreparedness for dealing with anti-trans bias. This article discusses the role of education in responding to gender panic in inpatient settings.

According to the preface in this book, one in every seven persons in the United States will be going to a hospital as a patient within the next 12 months. Considering the complexity of medical care today and the number of persons each contributing his own small part to this, a patient has a hard (impossible?) time understanding what it is all about. So You're Going to the Hospital! What Every Patient Should Knowpurports to do just that. It is clearly written, well indexed, and utterly devoid of humor in its down-to-earth approach. A glossary of medical terms and job descriptions of personnel is unusual and helpful. For someone anticipating an elective admission to the hospital, or for one who likes to be prepared for his actuarially predicted admission, this makes informative reading. If it is made available in hospital lounges and patient room areas, it would be interesting