Resources for Practitioners
The Center of Excellence for Transgender Health is an excellent online resource provided by the folks at UCSF. It offers guidance on everything from basic terminology, creating a welcoming attitude and space, and querying about gender to cancer risks and screening guidelines. It's quite easy to navigate, as well.
The Center of Excellence for Transgender Health is an excellent online resource provided by the folks at UCSF. It offers guidance on everything from basic terminology, creating a welcoming attitude and space, and querying about gender to cancer risks and screening guidelines. It's quite easy to navigate, as well.
Additional resources, such as WPATH's Standards of Care, short papers regarding standard therapies and lab interpretation:
Additional resources, such as WPATH's Standards of Care, short papers regarding standard therapies and lab interpretation:
Transgender Health Standards of Care, V7.pdfmedical management of adult transsexual persons.pdfMedical Therapy and HM for Transgender Men_2005.pdfInterpreting lab results - transgender patients on hormone therapy.pdfTransgender Lab and Medication Protocol summary.pdf
Find current and past issues of Transgender Health journal here. Stay up to date with "[t]he only open access journal delivering authoritative research and clinical studies exclusively focused on meeting the healthcare needs of transgender individuals throughout the lifespan.
Find current and past issues of Transgender Health journal here. Stay up to date with "[t]he only open access journal delivering authoritative research and clinical studies exclusively focused on meeting the healthcare needs of transgender individuals throughout the lifespan.
Project Health offers Transline, "a national online transgender medical consultation service that offers health care providers up-to-date transgender clinical information and individualized case consultation across a broad range of clinical transgender issues. TransLine is staffed by expert medical providers from LGBT clinics from around the nation who can help you provide the best possible care to your transgender patients."
Project Health offers Transline, "a national online transgender medical consultation service that offers health care providers up-to-date transgender clinical information and individualized case consultation across a broad range of clinical transgender issues. TransLine is staffed by expert medical providers from LGBT clinics from around the nation who can help you provide the best possible care to your transgender patients."
An excellent review of the literature (inclusive of 2013) regarding the adverse effects of hormone and other therapies used in gender affirmation
An excellent review of the literature (inclusive of 2013) regarding the adverse effects of hormone and other therapies used in gender affirmation
Cross-Sex Hormone Replacement Therapy de Voil.pdfA few useful reviews of the literature regarding hormone therapy:
A few useful reviews of the literature regarding hormone therapy:
AsschemanSafetyCSHRT.pdfRisks-T-Bassil.pdfElaminCVReview.pdfWierkxCVCancer.pdf