The Gender Identity Research and Education (GIRES) provides information and support for families in which an adult member experiences gender variance.Other organisations that do so are listed in the GIRES directory of trans support groups, which is linked to its Home Page (TranzWiki). It has directly helped hundreds of families by means of telephone, e-mail
Read More ...Royal College of Psychiatrists Good Practice Guidelines New Treatment Guidelines for Gender Dysphoria have been published by the British Medical Colleges. The provision of care for patients experiencing gender dysphoria is an excellent example of an area where multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary care is not only good practice but ensures that a wide choice of treatment
Read More ...GIRES has prepared several publications for the Department of Health which can be found below. Guidance for GPs, other clinicians and health professionals on the care of gender variant people (PDF, 324KB) Gender variant (trans or transgender) people are relatively rarely seen in GP surgeries. Many GPs say that they lack the knowledge to treat those experiencing gender
Read More ...Version 2.2.1 (28th February 2010) Complete Toolkit Toolkit: Guidance on Combating Transphobic Bullying in Schools (PDF, 2.1MB) Executive Summary During the past decade, transgender issues have become a major component of diversity programmes throughout the public service sector[1]. Their present prominence results from continuing rapid growth in the number of transgender people who reveal their gender
Read More ...A 16½ year old individual, who commenced the transition from a male to a female gender role, wrote separate letters to the two clinicians responsible for her care, shortly after being provided with medication to block the production of testosterone. Letter to a consultant paediatric endocrinologist Thank you for your letter dated 1 February and
Read More ...A mother and father have prepared separate accounts of the atypical gender identity development that their twelve-year-old child has experienced. The Mother’s Story I moved from my birthplace in Yorkshire, to the South of England when I was 16 years old. At 20 I met my future husband. I was living in Sussex, working as
Read More ...The Court’s permission is required for any physical intervention in the medical treatment of gender variant adolescents. Permission has already been granted for early suspension of puberty in several cases. Document: Gender Troubles: pages from Australian Doctor (PDF, 587KB), October 31, 2008.
Read More ...Treatment in the USA Mermaids presentation on the Children’s hospital in Boston, 8th December 2007 (PDF, 1.4MB) Mermaids presentation on the Children’s hospital in Boston, 8th December 2007 (PPT, 434KB)
Read More ...GIRES has compared the British and Dutch approaches to offering feminising hormones to adolescents with profound and persistent gender dysphoria who had male phenotype at birth and are at or beyond a late stage of pubertal development. The British Approach In the UK, the approach is based guidelines published by the British Society of Paediatric
Read More ...The adolescents cared for by the Dutch clinicians are mainly first seen before, or at an early stage of, puberty. For those confirmed as experiencing profound gender dysphoria that is highly likely to persist, hormone blocking medication is offered at a testicular volume of 6-8 ml to suspend puberty, thereby relieving immediate stress and providing
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