Health Archive

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

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

Document: Medical care for gender variant young people: Dealing with the practical problems (PDF, 100KB) B.W.D. Reed, P.T. Cohen-Kettenis, T. Reed, N. Spack December 2008 The english text from the paper published in Sexologies Volume 17, Issue 4, October–December 2008, Pages 258–264 GIRES takes a keen interest in the medical care offered to gender variant

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.

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)

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

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

There have been media articles in Germany, the UK and the USA about Kim, a 14 year old German adolescent, with profound and persistent gender dysphoria (male to female), who is undergoing endocrine intervention to suspend puberty. This appears not to be an isolated case. When Kim turned 12 and puberty started, there was some

There are two major centres in Canada in Vancouver and Toronto. Vancouver E-mail from Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital We’d very much like to be listed as a pediatric endocrine centre offering treatment for children with gender dysphoria, we’ve been involved in this for the past decade. We do indeed

The following information has been sent by clinicians at the University of Ghent: From Professor Petra De Sutter “We have started since about a year to accept and treat children according to the Amsterdam protocol and have now about one new child a week (!) demanding to enter our program. So far only a small