Past and Future Challenges Associated with Standards of Care for Gender Transitioning Clients.
This article defines a standard of care, describes their purpose in general, and then provides an overview of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People Version 7. After a brief history of the document, past and future challenges associated with these Standards including ideas moving forward into the eighth version are presented.
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Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, #201, 1770 Fort Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8R 1J5, Canada.
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D000068116:Gender Dysphoria; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D057829:Gender-Affirming Procedures / Q000523:psychology*; D059039:Standard of Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D005260:Female
Gender dysphoria; Gender nonconforming; SOC 7; Standards of care; Transgender; Transsexual; World Professional Association for Transgender Health