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The Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People (SOC) is an international clinical protocol by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) outlining the recommended assessment and treatment for transgender and gender-diverse individuals across the lifespan including social, hormonal, or surgical transition. [1]
WPATH develops, [9] publishes and reviews guidelines for persons with gender dysphoria, under the name of Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, the overall goal of the SOC is to provide clinical guidance for health professionals to assist transgender, and gender nonconforming people with safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort with ...
The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) was the specialist clinic nationally commissioned by NHS England to provide care to transgender and gender diverse children, including those with gender dysphoria. In the years leading up to the Cass Review, several GIDS staff members voiced concerns over the evidence base for the treatments being ...
The critical element of gender dysphoria is the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition." [1] Individuals with gender dysphoria may or may not regard their own cross-gender feelings and behaviors as a disorder. Advantages and disadvantages exist to classifying gender dysphoria as a disorder. [3]
Target ranges for hormone levels in hormone therapy for transgender women; Source Place Estradiol, total Testosterone, total Refs Endocrine Society: United States: 100–200 pg/mL
Subtypes of gender identity disorder based on sexual orientation were deleted. [11] Among other wording changes, criterion A and criterion B (cross-gender identification, and aversion toward one's gender) were combined. [11] Along with these changes comes the creation of a separate gender dysphoria in children as well as one for adults and ...
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Children with persistent gender dysphoria are characterized by more extreme gender dysphoria in childhood than children with desisting gender dysphoria. [1] Some (but not all) gender variant youth will want or need to transition, which may involve social transition (changing dress, name, pronoun), and, for older youth and adolescents, medical transition (hormone therapy or surgery).