His research aim had been to generate much needed evidence to support choices around gender reassignment therapy. Caspian has helped many people successfully go through gender transition but stresses that there are complex and different reasons why people present with gender identity issues seeking treatm...
Patient satisfaction with gender identity clinic services in the United Kingdom. Sex Relatsh Ther 2013;28:400-18.Davies A., Bouman W.P., Richards C. et al. (2013) Patient sat- isfaction with gender identity clinic services in the United Kingdom. Sexual and Relationship Therapy 28 (4),...
In the current noise about gender identity there is a missing voice from the “gender community”. Well, not totally missing. Afterall Caitlyn Jenner has publicly voiced her feelings about gender identity being pushed on children under the age of eighteen. But … that’s it. Otherwise, the o...
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...
Young people aged 17 or older may be seen in an adult gender identity clinic but following the review NHS England said it would now pause first appointments at adult clinics for teens under 18, as well as bringing forward its review of adult gender services....
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 ...
The metaphor of transition will not fit everyone’s gender-affirming journey as some “never fully embraced the gender role they were assigned at birth or because they actualize their gender identity, role, and expression in a way that does not involve a change from one gender role to another...
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...
Stonewall UK now includes “crossdresser” as a full transgender identity. It’s not surprising, given its higher prevalence than transsexuality, that Stonewall would wish to do this — in fact, by including fetishistic transvestites to swell the ranks, Stonewall could achieve the huge jump in ...
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a university-based gender identity clinic in the United States, I demonstrate that while some institutions adopt dominant cultural frameworks, others critically assess these. To understand the intricacies of the clinic's psychotherapeutic practices, I analyze...