Gender identity clinic

Gender identity clinics assess and treat adults or children considering or undergoing social or medical gender reassignment.

Clinics and hospitals

Netherlands

  • Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria at the University Medical Center of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands[1][2]

Belgium

  • Center for Sexology and Gender Problems at the Ghent University Hospital of the Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent in Ghent, Belgium

United States

  • Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, California, United States
  • The Transgender Health Program of Massachusetts General Hospital, MA, USA[3]
  • The Gender Management Service (GeMS) of Boston Children's Hospital, MA, USA[4]

United Kingdom

Canada

  • The Gender Identity Clinic of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada[6]

References

  1. ↑ Wiepjes CM, Nota NM, de Blok CJ, Klaver M, de Vries AL, Wensing-Kruger SA, de Jongh RT, Bouman MB, Steensma TD, Cohen-Kettenis P, Gooren LJ, Kreukels BP, den Heijer M (April 2018). "The Amsterdam Cohort of Gender Dysphoria Study (1972-2015): Trends in Prevalence, Treatment, and Regrets". J Sex Med. 15 (4): 582–590. doi:10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.01.016. PMID 29463477.
  2. ↑ Een halve eeuw transgenderzorg aan de VU [Half a century of transgender care at the VU] (in Dutch). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Boom Uitgevers Amsterdam. 2020. ISBN 9789024437306. OCLC 1231709484.
  3. ↑ "Transgender Health Program".
  4. ↑ Edwards-Leeper, L., & Spack, N. P. (2012). Psychological evaluation and medical treatment of transgender youth in an interdisciplinary "Gender Management Service" (GeMS) in a major pediatric center. Journal of Homosexuality, 59,321-336. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2012.653302.
  5. ↑ "Governor of Tavistock Foundation quits over damning report into gender identity clinic". 23 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "History of GCS in Ontario · Trans Health Care Activism in Ontario, 1998-2008 · the ArQuives Digital Exhibitions".
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