every trans person needs to read this

[anibioman]

http://www.wpath.org/documents2/socv6.pdf

everyone needs to read this.

updated one (thanks to adio)

http://www.wpath.org/documents/Standards%20of%20Care%20V7%20-%202011%20WPATH.pdf

[Adio]

That's the old version.  The new version is here:

http://www.wpath.org/documents/Standards%20of%20Care%20V7%20-%202011%20WPATH.pdf

[anibioman]

thanks a bunch im surprised their website didnt direct me to the newest one.

[Asfsd4214]

We don't need to read it.

I can only speak for Australia, but here it doesn't mean very much what the SoC says.

Because every psychiatrist and medical professional I've ever seen has their own made up version that they say is nothing less than law. And pointing out to them the inconsistencies in their version and the real version simply results in them dismissing your qualifications and the accuracy of the internet etc, etc. And saying "this is just how it is".

Doctors are not our friends, they are our greatest injustice.

The general public doesn't have doctors deciding if they have a right to exist or not, but it feels like I have nothing less than doctors everywhere around me deciding my life for me.

And this WPATH just like all the ones before them simply perpetuate our institutionalisation within the medical system.

[insideontheoutside]

We don't need to read it.

I can only speak for Australia, but here it doesn't mean very much what the SoC says.

Because every psychiatrist and medical professional I've ever seen has their own made up version that they say is nothing less than law. And pointing out to them the inconsistencies in their version and the real version simply results in them dismissing your qualifications and the accuracy of the internet etc, etc. And saying "this is just how it is".

Doctors are not our friends, they are our greatest injustice.

The general public doesn't have doctors deciding if they have a right to exist or not, but it feels like I have nothing less than doctors everywhere around me deciding my life for me.

And this WPATH just like all the ones before them simply perpetuate our institutionalisation within the medical system.

I'm not in OZ (in U.S.) but this is exactly how I feel about it  ... and have always felt about it.

[Padma]

The medical system is structured in such a rigid way that the only way they can support transition is if they define it as a condition that they can treat - this is one of the downsides of allopathic, menu-driven medicine.

At least the WPATH is progressive, in that each time a new one comes out they take a step further away from defining trans as an illness and move towards recognising dysphoria as a response to a condition, not a condition in itself. I think a lot of the fault lies with the underlying medical model that WPATH has to respond to, not with WPATH itself.

And in the end, most people's problems with the medical profession are problems caused by the personalities and prejudices of individual practitioners, rather than the system as a whole. Good, progressive doctors and psychiatrists (and they certainly exist) recognise their role as that of supporting people in their transition, rather than exploiting their own powerful position to shore up their egos by setting up barriers. The GIC I attend in Devon, for example, has a much more progressive reputation than the dreaded Charing Cross one in London, and that's all down to the views of the people running it - after all, they're operating under the same healthcare rules, they just interpret them differently.