Understanding new revisions to 'Harry Benjamin Standards of Care'
Posted Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Commentary: Trans Progressive
by Autumn Sandeen
http://lgbtweekly.com/2011/10/06/understanding-new-revisions-to-harry-benjamin-standards-of-care/If you've ever wondered about the mechanics of "treating" ->-bleeped-<-, as it were, there are specific guidelines called the Harry Benjamin Standards of Care. A newly-revised edition of the Standards of Care was released Sept. 25, at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) conference in Atlanta.
There are significant changes to the psychiatric and medical care of the T people of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in these revised standards of care, and the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) has put out a list of ten items that trans people should know about WPATH's revised edition. Here's that list:
• Recognition that gender nonconformity in and of itself is not a disorder.
