NHS funding processes and waiting times for adult service-users This publication will help you understand the processes involved in obtaining funding for treatment for gender variant conditions. It answers the questions that service-users typically ask, and it provides guidance on how to navigate this complex system with minimum delay. Your GP may also find this information helpful.
Read More ...Monitoring Gender Nonconformity October 2015 (PDF, 270KB) LGBT Health Summit 2008 (PDF, 222KB) LGBT Health Summit, Bristol, September 4th 2008 Gender Variance: Prevalence and Trend
Read More ...Developing Guidelines for Endocrinological Intervention in the Gender Identity Development Treatment of Adolescents Aims The aim of this project is to develop an expert consensus among the clinicians engaged in the treatment of adolescents experiencing gender variance. This should lead to improved guidelines for endocrine intervention in this patient group. Currently there are no agreed
Read More ...Funding provided by the Nuffield Foundation and other charitable donors has enabled GIRES to undertake a highly important project. Its purpose is to improve the treatment offered, in the UK and other countries, to adolescents who experience profound and persistent discomfort with the gender role assigned at birth because it clashes with their innate gender
Read More ...Click on the links below to view the related articles and documents. Like most teenagers Jackie Green couldn’t wait for her special 16th birthday present. But the gift from her mum Susie wasn’t clothes or jewellery – it was a £13,500 sex change operation … I had sex swap op on my 16th birthday – The Sun, October 25,
Read More ...GIRES plenary presentation at the LGBT Health Summit – 6 September 2010 Commissioners and providers of health and social services face major challenges in caring for the trans community. The rapid growth in the number of people, of all ages, who are seeking medical treatment for profound and persistent gender dysphoria is placing an increasing
Read More ...Norman Spack: How I help transgender teens become who they want to be In a heartfelt talk at a TED conference, endocrinologist Norman Spack tells a personal story of how he became one of the few doctors in the US to treat minors with hormone replacement therapy. By staving off the effects of puberty, Spack
Read More ...This article examines the experiences of families in which a family member has transitioned, or is in the process of transitioning, to live according to the opposite gender role to that assigned at birth. Evidence is gleaned from those taking part in one of the 11 workshops (run in various geographical locations around the UK by
Read More ...This page is available as a downloadable PDF. Document: Ways to make your youth group a safe and welcoming place for young transgender people (PDF, 170KB) by Joey T. McKillop. Thanks to: Josh Minor and Pig Jefferson for a youth worker’s look-over, Ruth Pearce and Karl Walker for a young person’s look-over, Bernard Reed for a professional’s
Read More ...Gender discomfort may be detected, albeit rarely, in children aged as young as three or four. Usually, transsexual people describe feelings of gender discomfort that date back to their early childhood. They often regret that they were not treated at the onset of puberty, when they experienced intense stress as their bodies began to develop
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