I got this website from a social worker who's working with me. Its for the WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health). In it has the Standards of Care for Transgender folk. It is very informative and worth while reading. The following link is for the 7th edition. Just click the picture of the front cover and you can read / download the full book.

http://www.wpath.org/site_page.cfm?pk_association_webpage_menu=1351&pk_association_webpage=3926

It seems to me to be a very reliable source of information due to the many cited sources. Happy reading

It is also in Susan's wiki.

 
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before anyone gets too excited about SOC they are only guidelines. The treatments they advocate are a path to sex change only. There is some controversies about wpath not being based on any real research. see " APA dumps wpath soc "
sometimes a sex change is bad for the person. the long term mortality rate, due to all causes   for mtf ts getting mones is a staggering 51 % .
see   " A  long term follow up study of mortality in receiving treatment with cross-sex hormones."
so before anyone starts to transition proceed with caution. some people do great and some not so much.

Quote from: victoria n on November 23, 2013, 08:40:30 AM


sometimes a sex change is bad for the person. the long term mortality rate, due to all causes   for mtf ts getting mones is a staggering 51 % .
see   " A  long term follow up study of mortality in receiving treatment with cross-sex hormones."

Sad fact, mortality is 100% for every group in the world. Everybody dies.

Personally i think WPATH is getting outdated, especially with a rise in popularity of informed consent. I can honestly see a day coming when all you need for SRS is a sit down with a doctor and your signature on the dotted line....or they just transfer your conscious being to another body.....either way lol.

The SOC isn't against informed consent.

http://www.wpath.org/uploaded_files/140/files/IJT%20SOC,%20V7.pdf


Relationship Between the Standards
of Care and Informed Consent Model
Protocols

A number of community health centers in
the United States have developed protocols for
providing hormone therapy based on an ap-
proach that has become known as the Informed
Consent Model (Callen Lorde Community
Health Center, 2000, 2011; Fenway Community
Health Transgender Health Program, 2007; Tom
Waddell Health Center, 2006). These protocols
are consistent with the guidelines presented in
the WPATH
Standards of Care, Version 7
.

Quote from: victoria n on November 23, 2013, 08:40:30 AM
sometimes a sex change is bad for the person. the long term mortality rate, due to all causes   for mtf ts getting mones is a staggering 51 % .
see   " A  long term follow up study of mortality in receiving treatment with cross-sex hormones."
so before anyone starts to transition proceed with caution. some people do great and some not so much.

Here is a link to the study.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21266549

Note in the conclusion section:

The increased mortality in hormone-treated MtF transsexuals was mainly due to non-hormone-related causes, but ethinyl estradiol may increase the risk of cardiovascular death. Emphasis added.

The study compared transsexual subjects receiving long-term cross-sex hormones to the general population. In other words, the higher death rate may be associated with those suffering from gender dysphoria in general versus those specifically receiving long-term cross-sex hormones. A study that compares transsexual subjects receiving long-term cross-sex hormones and those not receiving hormones would have done a better job at explaining risks of hormones IMO.

Thank you for the link. I think the most telling was the suicide rate which we know is much higher in transsexuals than the general population regardless of treatment.



:

In the MtF group, total mortality was 51% higher than in the general population, mainly from increased mortality rates due to suicide, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, cardiovascular disease, drug abuse, and unknown cause. No increase was observed in total cancer mortality, but lung and hematological cancer mortality rates were elevated. Current, but not past ethinyl estradiol use was associated with an independent threefold increased risk of cardiovascular death. In FtM transsexuals, total mortality and cause-specific mortality were not significantly different from those of the general population.

The last sentence gives me hope to live a normal lifespan.