Meg McGrath is a queer and nonbinary clinician, educator, and consultant who focuses their work on gender, sexuality, and the creation of equitable systems and spaces for LGBTQIA+ folks.

As the Behavioral Health (BH) Clinical Lead for Boston Medical Center’s GenderCare Center, they provided individual therapy, conducted surgical referral letter assessments, and served as an advocate for and provided training about gender-affirming care across the healthcare system. As an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, they provide education for medical students and residents with a focus on gender affirming care. In June 2024, Meg created an elective designed to equip residents with the knowledge base and experience to provide affirming, intersectional, developmentally appropriate, and evidence-based behavioral health care to trans and gender diverse clients.

Prior to joining BMC, Meg served as an integrated behavioral health provider within primary care and family medicine settings at Fenway Health in Boston, MA. While there, they also oversaw the behavioral health department’s monthly continuing education program for the 85-person BH department and managed an annual advanced training program hosting candidates for behavioral health master degrees during their final year practicums.

As an early leader in the field of providing trans and gender diverse affirming care, Meg served as a faculty member for the first of its kind National TransECHO program, a “tele-education model that aims to reduce health disparities and increase access to specialty care in underserved areas” providing monthly didactic, case-based, and peer-to-peer learning to a cohort of more than 50 participants across 20 health centers within the contiguous United States, including Puerto Rico and Hawaii. 

They are also a contributing author to medical textbooks on LGBTQIA+ health care, including a chapter on gender identity emergence in adulthood within the first case-based, comprehensive textbook to address the unique health care needs of transgender and gender diverse adults. 

Meg holds a BA in environmental science and a Master of Social Work from Smith College School for Social Work.

Photo Credit Daniel Irvin

  • Meg's expertise has been published in text books, academic forums, and the media.

  • Chapter 5: Gender Identity Emergence and Affirmation in Adults

    Comprehensive textbook to address the unique health care needs of transgender and gender diverse adults from McGraw Hill.


  • POV: Gender-Affirming Care is Under Siege

    BU Today article detailing how laws prohibiting care will harm, not help, trans and gender-diverse youth.

  • Why BMC's Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery Just Changed Its Name

    In 2023 Boston Medical Center renamed the GenderCare Center (GCC). Meg was instrumental in the change and, with their team, spoke to Healthy City about the update.