This chapter gives an overview of the care for adults with gender dysphoria from the last decades of 1900 until recently, with a short vision for the future. The view on the care of individuals with gender issues has changed tremendously. This evolution is described here: from a psychotic ...
This chapter describes the approach to the care of children with gender dysphoria as developed in the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) in London. It makes references to the current and historical context of the early services in Toronto and Utrecht/Amsterdam. The reasons for offering prof...
5 However, the extent to which military-affiliated TGD youth receive military-provided and civilian care paid for through Tricare Prime, a MHS insurance plan, is unknown. The current study aims to determine health care use trends among TGD youth in the MHS, which provides services at no or ...
Feelings of gender dysphoria and not fitting in with North American society’s strict definitions of male and female contribute to the increased risk of mental illness experienced by transgender people, said Dr. Devon Mitchell, a UBC emergency medicine resident physician who is pursuing additional tra...
Steps towards safety: the need for affirming care The goal of affirming care is to alleviate gender dysphoria, which is the distress or discomfort an individual may experience due to a mismatch between their gender identity and their biological sex, said Meaghan Duckett, the founder of This Space...
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(age, race, sex, gender identity, co-morbidities), age at medical presentation with gender dysphoria, time to gender interventions, description of interventions, individual monitoring plan, adherence, correspondence with GICs and complications confirmed by specialists. Gender identity included non-binary ...
Gender specialists offering assessments for gender dysphoria diagnosis, hormones, surgical referrals and counselling services
So I came up with a plan. After I clocked out after my shift, I started just visiting with them and listening to whatever they had to say. I found that there were two basic questions that needed to be answered: “What do you want?” and “What are you afraid of?” These patients...