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    Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7

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    Authors
    Coleman, E.
    Bockting, W.
    Botzer, M.
    Cohen-Kettenis, P.
    DeCuypere, G.
    Feldman, J.
    Fraser, L.
    Green, J.
    Knudson, G.
    Meyer, W.
    Monstrey, S.
    Adler, R.
    Brown, G.
    Devor, A.
    Ehrbar, R.
    Ettner, R.
    Eyler, E.
    Garofalo, R.
    Karasic, D.
    Lev, A.
    Mayer, G.
    Meyer-Bahlburg, H.
    Hall, B.
    Pfaefflin, F.
    Rachlin, K.
    Robinson, B.
    Schechter, L.
    Tangpricha, V.
    van Trotsenburg, M.
    Vitale, A.
    Winter, Sam
    Whittle, S.
    Wylie, K.
    Zucker, K.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Coleman, E. and Bockting, W. and Botzer, M. and Cohen-Kettenis, P. and DeCuypere, G. and Feldman, J. and Fraser, L. et al. 2012. Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7. International Journal of Transgenderism. 13 (4): pp. 165-232.
    Source Title
    International Journal of Transgenderism
    DOI
    10.1080/15532739.2011.700873
    ISSN
    1553-2739
    School
    Department of Health Promotion and Sexology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54935
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The Standards of Care (SOC) for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People is a publication of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). The overall goal of the SOC is to provide clinical guidance for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming people with safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort with their gendered selves, in order to maximize their overall health, psychological well-being, and self-fulfillment. This assistance may include primary care, gynecologic and urologic care, reproductive options, voice and communication therapy, mental health services (e.g., assessment, counseling, psychotherapy), and hormonal and surgical treatments. The SOC are based on the best available science and expert professional consensus. Because most of the research and experience in this field comes from a North American and Western European perspective, adaptations of the SOC to other parts of the world are necessary. The SOC articulate standards of care while acknowledging the role of making informed choices and the value of harm reduction approaches. In addition, this version of the SOC recognizes that treatment for gender dysphoria i.e., discomfort or distress that is caused by a discrepancy between persons gender identity and that persons sex assigned at birth (and the associated gender role and/or primary and secondary sex characteristics) has become more individualized. Some individuals who present for care will have made significant self-directed progress towards gender role changes or other resolutions regarding their gender identity or gender dysphoria. Other individuals will require more intensive services. Health professionals can use the SOC to help patients consider the full range of health services open to them, in accordance with their clinical needs and goals for gender expression.

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