• DOI:10.1080/14681994.2014.883353
• Corpus ID: 144632597

Good Practice Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Adults with Gender Dysphoria

@article{Wylie2014GoodPG,
  title={Good Practice Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Adults with Gender Dysphoria},
  author={Kevan R Wylie and James Barrett and Mitchell J Besser and Walter Pierre Bouman and Michelle Bridgman and A. Clayton and Richard Green and Mark R. Hamilton and Melissa Hines and Gabriel Ivbijaro and Deenesh Khoosal and Alexandria T. Lawrence and Penny Lenihan and Del Loewenthal and David J Ralph and Terry Reed and John Stevens and Tim Terry and Ben Thom and Jane Thornton and Dominic Walsh and David Ward and Eli Coleman and Domenico di Ceglie and Emma Martin and Philip J. McGarry and Andrew G Messenger and Russell Reid and Su Sethi and Paul Sutcliffe and Daniel Wilson and Susan V Carr and Dai Davies and Tracey Dean and Michelle C. Ellis and Brian Ferguson and Darren C Skinner and Vicky Williams and Susan Brechin and James V. Lucey and M Rathbone},
  journal={Sexual and Relationship Therapy},
  year={2014},
  volume={29},
  pages={154 - 214}
}

• K. Wylie, J. Barrett, +38 authors M. Rathbone
• Published 3 April 2014
• Medicine, Psychology
• Sexual and Relationship Therapy

The Good Practice Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Adults with Gender Dysphoria is a publication of the Intercollegiate Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The overall goal of the Good Practice Guidelines is to provide clinical guidance for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming people with safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort with their gendered selves, in order to maximize their overall health, psychological well-being, and self-fulfillment. This assistance may include primary care, gynaecologic and urologic care, reproductive options, voice and communication therapy, mental health services (e.g., assessment, counselling, psychotherapy), and hormonal and surgical treatments. The Good Practice Guidelines are based on the best available science and expert professional consensus. The Good Practice Guidelines articulate standards of care while acknowledging the role of making informed choices and the value of harm reduction approaches. In addition, the Good Practice Guidelines recognizes that treatment for gender dysphoria i.e., discomfort or distress that is caused by a discrepancy between persons gender identity and that persons sex assigned at birth (and the associated gender role and/or primary and secondary sex characteristics) has become more individualized. Some individuals who present for care will have made significant self-directed progress towards gender role changes or other resolutions regarding their gender identity or gender dysphoria. Other individuals will require more intensive services. Health professionals can use the Good Practice Guidelines to help patients consider the full range of health services open to them, in accordance with their clinical needs and goals for gender expression.