As an industry, we’ll also to adjust how study and clinic technology systems are built to enable differentiation between gender identity and sex assigned at birth. This will enable more proactive identification of potential transgender and nonbinary study participants....
Gender dysphoria is a term used to describe how an individual feels a strong sense of disassociation between their gender identity and biological sex.
[71] (Zucker’s clinic was closed by the Canadian government in 2015.[72]) An alternative to Zucker’s approach that emphasizes affirming the child’s preferred gender identity has become more common among therapists.[73] This approach involves helping the children to self-identify even more ...
Sexual and gender minority individuals who attend collective sex venues (CSVs; establishments where people can have sex in groups or the presence of others) are at elevated risk for HIV and STIs. On-site sexual health interventions have been attempted at CSVs, but attendees’ interest in recei...
So, what I want to do here is share my thoughts, ideas and feelings on the subject of gender identity and how it affects anyone dealing with it. I also want to address what I see as society’s misunderstanding of the real issue. ...
For transition, 45.0% of participants went to a gender clinic (44.4% of those attending a gender clinic specified that the gender clinic used the informed consent model of care); 28.0% went to a private doctor’s office; 26.0% went to a group practice; and 13.0% went to a mental ...
Helen Webberley, a GP who ran a gender identity clinic online, has been suspended from the UK medical register for two months after a tribunal found her guilty of serious misconduct in the care of three young patients. The medical practitioners tribunal decided that she had not provided proper...
Objective: In the Netherlands, it is considered good medical practice to offer patients with gender identity disorder the option to undergo hormonal and surgical sex reassignment therapy. A liberalization of treatment guidelines now allows for such treatment to be started at puberty or prepuberty. The...
London — The only gender identity clinic in Scotland has paused prescribing puberty blockers to new patients under 18 years old, mirroring action taken by England's health authorities after a landmark review found young people had been let down by "remarkably weak" evidence backing medical ...
DSD: Differences in sex development; HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus; PrEP: Pre-exposure prophylaxis; SOGI: Sexual orientation and gender identity; STIs: sexually transmitted infections Full size image Deans reported their opinion of the quality of LGBTQI + health-related content overall in ...