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

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ID5779802
AuthorsEli Coleman (0000-0002-9803-2603, University of Minnesota Medical Center, corresponding author), Walter Bockting (0000-0003-2650-7726, Natural Selection (United States)), M Botzer (University of Minnesota Medical Center), Peggy T Cohen-Kettenis (0000-0003-0921-0859, University of Minnesota Medical Center), P Cohen-Kettenis, Griet Decuypere (University of Minnesota Medical Center), Jamie Feldman (0000-0003-1059-1441, University of Minnesota Medical Center), Lin Fraser (University of Minnesota Medical Center), J Green (0000-0002-4218-3592, University of Minnesota Medical Center), Gail Knudson (University of Minnesota Medical Center), William J Meyer (0009-0005-8571-5076, University of Minnesota Medical Center), Stan Monstrey (0000-0002-2270-0732, University of Minnesota Medical Center), Richard K Adler (University of Minnesota Medical Center), G R Brown (0000-0002-4101-3823), Aaron Devor (0000-0001-9037-5663, Natural Selection (United States)), A H Devor, Randall D Ehrbar (Natural Selection (United States)), R Ehrbar, Randi Ettner (University of Minnesota Medical Center), E Eyler (University of Minnesota Medical Center), Reebee Garofalo (0000-0001-9513-9416, University of Minnesota Medical Center), Dan H Karasic (University of Minnesota Medical Center), Arlene Istar Lev (University of Minnesota Medical Center), Gal Mayer (University of Minnesota Medical Center), Heino F L Meyer-Bahlburg (0000-0001-6271-391X, University of Minnesota Medical Center), H Meyer-Bahlburg, B P Hall (University of Minnesota Medical Center), Friedemann Pfaefflin (University of Minnesota Medical Center), Katherine Rachlin (University of Minnesota Medical Center), B Robinson (0000-0002-2983-0206), Beatrice “bean” E Robinson (University of Minnesota Medical Center), Loren S Schechter (0000-0002-1608-9594, University of Minnesota Medical Center), Vin Tangpricha (0000-0002-4021-5853, University of Minnesota Medical Center), Michael Van Trotsenburg (University of Minnesota Medical Center), Alisha Vitale (0000-0002-4548-8308, University of Minnesota Medical Center), Sam Winter (0000-0002-9996-0487, University of Minnesota Medical Center), Stephen Whittle (0000-0002-6924-2775, University of Minnesota Medical Center), Kevan Wylie (0000-0003-3805-105X, University of Minnesota Medical Center), K R Wylie, Kenneth J Zucker (0000-0001-5313-6401, University of Minnesota Medical Center), K Zucker (0009-0002-8232-9098)
Year2012
Volume13
Issue4
Pages165-232
Publication date2012-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Transgenderism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1434-4599 • E-ISSN: 1553-2739
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15532739.2011.700873
OpenAlexW2154354745
LanguageEN
Citations received450
References cited189

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

Gender dysphoria · Gender Identity Disorder · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Sexual Differentiation and Disorders

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