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Transgender / Transsexual/ Intersex: Your Health Care and Your Rights
Page Contents .
Column 1: Healthcare Guidance For Adult Trans People
Column 2: Healthcare Guidance For Clinicians and Guidance About Young Trans People
Column 3: Healthcare NEWS
 
 In 2007, the NHS Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Working Group  set out to recruit informed and intelligent writers, who knew about being Lesbian, Gay or trans from their personal or professional experience. These writers created a wide selection of Expert views and Guides as well as other information sources for Trans people, their families and their Clinicians. Unfortunately these guides are no longer in print.
As a service to the community,  PFC has pulled together all of these guides, below, for you to download directly to your own computer.
There are also links to various resources on web pages,  including several very worthwhile videos.  
 
FUNDING: Funding is a key issue for many trans people seeking to access the various stages of NHS services for transition; assessment, hormone therapy and surgical prcedures. There is an excellent guide written by the Gender Identity and Research Society (GIRES) about funding in the NHS , including details of your rights. It is the guide in the top of the left hand column below.
All of the guides below can be downloaded and read if you 
 
Page Contents .
Column 1: Healthcare Guidance For Adult Trans People
Column 2: Healthcare Guidance For Clinicians and Guidance About Young Trans People
Column 3: Healthcare NEWS

 

Health Care Reports


  

WPATH Standards of Care

Version 7 

 

EHRC:

A review of access to NHS gender

reassignment services

(England only)

 

Guidance For Adult Trans People

Anyone over the Age of 18


 

 

NHS funding processes and waiting times for adult service-users

Click Here

 

A guide to hormone therapy for trans people

Click Here 

 

Transgender experiences - Information and support

Click Here 

 

Trans people's health

Click Here

 

Mental health issues within lesbian, gay and bisexual communities 

Click Here

 

 

Healthy lifestyles for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people

Click Here

 

Guidance For Clinicians

GPs, Physicians, Psychiatrists, and Surgeons


Trans: A practical guide for the NHS

click here

Guidance for GPs, other clinicians and health professionals on the care of gender variant people

click here

Guidelines for health organisations commissioning treatment services for trans people

click here

Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people

Click Here


About Young Trans People                 

Children, Teenagers, Families, Teachers, GPs       


 

 

Medical Care for Gender Variant children and young people; Answering Families' Questions 

Click Here

 

Tell It Like It Is: Tackling Homophobia and Transphobia in School

Temporarily unavailable 

click here 

HealthCare News

GPs, Physicians, Psychiatrists, and Surgeons


 

November 2011: News on the Commissioning of transgender related Health Care click here
 

Although we have made the EHRC report available to view online, we believe it is a very poor report that fails to address a lot of issues.