The impact of Gender Identity Clinic waiting times on the mental health of transitioning individualsdoi:10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2205genderTransgenderWaiting timesTransitioningIntroduction Waiting times for gender identity services, even before the Covid-19 pandemic, have been a cause of concern. Despite ...
(2013). Patient satisfaction with gender identity clinic services in the United Kingdom. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 28(4), 400-418.Davies A, Bouman WP, Richards C, Barrett J, Ahmad A, Baker K, Lenihan P, Lorimer S, Mepham N, Murjan S, Robbins-Cherry S, Seal L, Stradins L....
Participants were actively looking to support their mental health, which was met with a considerable wait for mental health support, or looking for support for their gender dysphoria, which was also met with a considerable wait to attend a gender identity clinic, or both. Superordinate Theme 5:...
Prolonged waiting times from referral to the first appointment at a gender clinic, often spanning over a year, emerged as a major barrier (Clark et al., Citation2020; Pullen Sansfaçon et al., Citation2019). It also marked the culmination of an extended journey, starting with the youth’...
Gender Identity Isn’t a Box. It’s a Yardstick. One of the big questions I was still left with when I stopped blogging here for a few years was very simple: What, exactly, is gender identity? If you read mainstream trans sources, the answer gets a bit circular:“gender identity is ...
2. Gender identity Gender dysphoria (GD) has been defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5), as a characteristic of the individuals presenting with incongruence between their natal sex (sex at birth) and their experienced gender [9]. The diag...
our clinical sample is probably not representative of the possibly diverse non-binary population. Since the study was conducted in the same clinic, in which the adolescents also were receiving support/treatment, they may have hesitated to disclose their (non-binary) gender identity or to participate...
Finally, gynecologists should be prepared to recommend cancer screenings appropriate to which organs a patient has, avoiding anatomic assumptions based on a patient’s sex, gender expression, and/or gender identity. This is true, not just for transgender and gender nonbinary (TGNB) people but fo...
Data on sociodemographic characteristics, such as age, country, sex assigned at birth, gender identity ([trans] masculine, [trans] feminine, in between, other), educational level (lower, intermediate, higher) and income level (below, around, or above poverty line) was collected. Participants fil...
Still waiting for our Pharmacy to deliver some. Med Nurse has spoken with them several times today, awaiting delivery.”[emphasis added] A highly detailed reading of the record is required to find evidence that medications were missing or delayed. If the timestamps are analyzed, one can see ...