Saturday, September 24, 2016

And then there were guidelines ...

I have drafted proposed clinical guidelines for detransitioning.  This is a work-in-progress, to be amended by the experiences of detransitioning individuals and their health care providers, for just as the knowledge of the consequences of transgender interventions is accumulating, so, too, and necessarily delayed, is the accumulation of knowledge about detransitioning.  Therefore, one will note these guidelines are, at present, short.

In writing these guidelines, I referred to the Standards of Care published by WPATH, and the clinical guidelines published by my local health authority.  It is worth noting a few things:  WPATH was originally the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (and it is worth reading about Harry Benjamin's invention of clinical transgenderism), that WPATH and its Standards of Care are funded by the Tawani Foundation, which was created by Jennifer (James) Pritzker; and the original author of the WPATH Standards of Care is Dr Jamie Feldman, who was a family doctor, not even an endocrinologist.

As I wrote these guidelines, I quickly realized there wasn't much to state that could not be reduced to the Hippocratic Oath, which essentially exhorts physicians to first, do no harm.

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