![]() ![]() We suggest health care professionals provide transgender and gender diverse adolescents with health education on chest binding and genital tucking, including a review of the benefits and risks. WPATH SOC8 recommendation 6.4 Īfter warning about “reparative and conversion therapy” - rather than recommending exploratory psychotherapy? - WPATH launched into physical and chemical interventions: We recommend health care professionals work with families, schools, and other relevant settings to promote acceptance of gender diverse expressions of behavior and identities of the adolescent. Behaviour was shackled with identity as WPATH stepped far beyond the worthy observation that girls can be more masculine in their behaviour and expressions, and boys can be more feminine. The chapters on adolescents and children were particularly worrying. What does it mean to be gender diverse? Why include adolescents and children? How can a life not be authentic? But when the list of authors includes Susie Green - Chief Executive Officer of Mermaids - it is perhaps unsurprising when SOC8 uses the language of activists. The Standards of Care 8 represents the most comprehensive set of guidelines ever produced to assist health care professionals around the world in support of transgender and gender diverse adults, adolescents, and children who are taking steps to live their lives authentically. My concerns began with the press release. We should therefore take notice when WPATH publishes updated Standards of Care “for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People”. It is seemingly credible, and UK clinicians - both NHS and private - proudly trumpet their links to it. Recently he presented the acclaimed documentary ‘The Fantastical World of Hormones’ on BBC4.The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) claims to be a non-profit, interdisciplinary professional and educational organisation devoted to transgender health. He chaired the Royal College of Physicians Working Party ‘Action on Obesity: Comprehensive Care for All’ published in January 2013, and has been involved improving services for patients with obesity. He was Academic Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians in London, from August 2012 until August 2015. Pauls Way School (with Professor Brian Cox) and he founded the Pituitary Foundation. He was recently in June last year awarded the Distinguished Physician of the Year Award by the American Endocrine Society the first non American to ever receive this award.Īmongst his charitable activities, he is Patron of the St. He has won a number of prizes and given named lectures including the Jubilee Prize of the Society for Endocrinology. He has also served as President of the Pituitary Society. He was President of the European Federation of Endocrine Societies from 2001-2003 and was Chairman of the Society for Endocrinology (2006-2009. He has also edited a number of different textbooks including the Oxford Textbook of Endocrinology, Clinical Endocrine Oncology and the Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology (3 editions). Since 1975 he has published over 385 articles in scientific journals and as well as written many reviews and chapters in textbooks including the Oxford Textbook of Medicine and DeGroot’s Textbook of Endocrinology. His research interests include all pituitary tumours, especially acromegaly, adrenal disease, angiogenesis in endocrinology, and the genetics of osteoporosis and thyroid disease. ![]() ![]() John Wass is the Professor of Endocrinology at Oxford University and was Head of the Department of Endocrinology at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital Oxford, UK until 2012. ![]()
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