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* Excerpt from November 2006 meeting: ''“...(Dr Kevan Wylie, specialist in gender identity disorder working at Sheffield Gender Identity Clinic) had received an email from the (Royal College of Psychiatrists) about an application to a Member of Parliament asking if they could be noted as “no gender” and wanted to know if it was a recognised condition. Kevan had discussed it at a previous meeting but no one had heard of it before...”'' [http://www.sarahlizzy.com/blog/?p=61] | * Excerpt from November 2006 meeting: ''“...(Dr Kevan Wylie, specialist in gender identity disorder working at Sheffield Gender Identity Clinic) had received an email from the (Royal College of Psychiatrists) about an application to a Member of Parliament asking if they could be noted as “no gender” and wanted to know if it was a recognised condition. Kevan had discussed it at a previous meeting but no one had heard of it before...”'' [http://www.sarahlizzy.com/blog/?p=61] | ||
* Excerpt from October 2010 meeting: ''“...Glasgow currently | * Excerpt from October 2010 meeting: ''“...Glasgow currently have [sic] a patient who has highly intellectualised the gender issues, he is biological [sic] male and in between somewhere... Equality bill only mentions the male to female or female to male.”'' [http://www.sarahlizzy.com/blog/?p=61] | ||
The London NHS GIC released a statement called 'Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) myths' [http://www.wlmht.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/GIC-myths.pdf] produced by consultant psychiatrist Dr Stuart Lorimer with full agreement from the Psych team in November 2010 [http://www.spectrumlondon.org.uk/cxinfo.htm], the document includes the following:- ''“(Myth) You have to give a standard trans narrative (Answer) As the UK’ s largest gender clinic, we see a huge diversity of people, and neither wish nor expect you to tailor your own experiences to a set of clichés. Just be honest”''. | The London NHS GIC released a statement called 'Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) myths' [http://www.wlmht.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/GIC-myths.pdf] produced by consultant psychiatrist Dr Stuart Lorimer with full agreement from the Psych team in November 2010 [http://www.spectrumlondon.org.uk/cxinfo.htm], the document includes the following:- ''“(Myth) You have to give a standard trans narrative (Answer) As the UK’ s largest gender clinic, we see a huge diversity of people, and neither wish nor expect you to tailor your own experiences to a set of clichés. Just be honest”''. | ||
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At the Public Panel Discussion of Gender Reassignment Services in London (2007), Dr Stuart Lorimer confirmed that ''“the [London NHS] GIC follows a modified version of the Harry Benjamin Standards of Care... this was judged on a case by case basis”'' [http://www.translondon.org.uk/resources/LondonGRS.pdf]. The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) is now known as the World Professional Association for Transgender Healthcare (WPATH) [http://www.wpath.org/], they released version 7 of their Standards of Care in September 2011 which includes the following excerpt; | At the Public Panel Discussion of Gender Reassignment Services in London (2007), Dr Stuart Lorimer confirmed that ''“the [London NHS] GIC follows a modified version of the Harry Benjamin Standards of Care... this was judged on a case by case basis”'' [http://www.translondon.org.uk/resources/LondonGRS.pdf]. The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) is now known as the World Professional Association for Transgender Healthcare (WPATH) [http://www.wpath.org/], they released version 7 of their Standards of Care in September 2011 which includes the following excerpt; | ||
''"'''The SOC | ''"'''The SOC are intended to be flexible''' in order to meet the diverse health care needs of transsexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming people. While flexible, they offer standards for promoting optimal health care and guiding the treatment of people experiencing gender dysphoria – broadly defined as discomfort or distress that is caused by a discrepancy between a person’s gender identity and that person’s sex assigned at birth (and the associated gender role and/or primary and secondary sex characteristics) (Fisk, 1974; Knudson, De Cuypere, & Bockting, 2010b). As for all previous versions of the SOC, the criteria put forth in this document for hormone therapy and surgical treatments for gender dysphoria are clinical guidelines; '''individual health professionals and programs may modify them'''. Clinical departures from the SOC may come about because of a patient’s unique anatomic, social, or psychological situation; an experienced health professional’s evolving method of handling a common situation; a research protocol; lack of resources in various parts of the world; or the need for specific harm reduction strategies. These departures should be recognized as such, explained to the patient, and documented through informed consent for quality patient care and legal protection. This documentation is also valuable for the accumulation of new data, which can be retrospectively examined to allow for health care – and the SOC – to evolve."'' | ||
==The NHS referral process== | ==The NHS referral process== | ||