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To promote evidence-based care, education, research, advocacy, public policy, and respect in transgender health. Headquarters: East Dundee, Illinois, U.S. Products: Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People
Dallas Ducar is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Transhealth opening the first ‘independent, comprehensive’ transgender health center. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a nurse practitioner, and entrepreneur.
The Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People (SOC) is an international clinical protocol by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) outlining the recommended assessment and treatment for transgender and gender-diverse individuals across the lifespan including social, hormonal, or ...
Laws in many states limit access to health care for trans people. Trans, nonbinary patients talk about seeking health care, how doctors and nurses treat them.
Transhealth, Inc. is an American independent and comprehensive trans healthcare center that services trans and gender-diverse individuals and families. Transhealth was founded in Western Massachusetts in 2021 to provide clinical care, research, advocacy, and education related to gender-affirming healthcare .
Transgender health care includes the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental health conditions, as well as gender-affirming care, for transgender individuals. A major component of transgender health care is gender-affirming care , the medical aspect of gender transition .
In 2018 and 2019, Bowers performed the first live surgical vaginoplasty surgeries in surgical educational programs sponsored by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Starting in January 2014, each American state must have a Health Benefit Exchange where individuals and families can buy health care plans, and no state's exchange may discriminate against consumers on the basis of gender identity.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the Endocrine Society later formulated guidelines that created a foundation for health care providers to care for transgender patients.
Jack L. Turban is an American psychiatrist and writer who researches LGBTQ health, with a focus on the mental health of transgender youth. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vox.