Authors: Sidsel Pedersen, BRadiog, MRT (R), and Virginia Sanders, MSc, RTR

The gender landscape is changing. For professionals in health care, particularly diagnostic imaging (DI), we need better communication tools to obtain personal information from this gender diverse community. We need more specific information from patients because we are performing examinations in which radiation is involved. It is our professional duty to protect a patient’s reproductive organs whenever possible, but we must know where those organs are located.