Primary Care Protocol For Transgender Patient Care

I just came across this story from last spring about guidelines for doctors who have transgender patients. There are already guidelines for therapists (Standard of Care), but there was never really any guidelines GPs.

A New Tool for Treating Transgender People
Huffington Post
By Joanne Herman
Posted: 4/17/11

Last week saw the release of a very important new resource for medical providers serving transsexual and gender-variant patients. The Primary Care Protocol for Transgender Patient Care is a web-based resource that goes beyond hormone treatment and surgery options to cover important topics such as sexual health and fertility, cancer and cardiovascular disease, patient intake and insurance issues, and harm reduction.

The Protocol is the creation of The Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at the University of California, San Francisco. The Center's aim is to increase access to comprehensive, effective and affirming health care services for trans and gender-variant communities.
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The issuance of the new Primary Care Protocol is another big step forward. It gives medical professionals easy access to the consensus of eight physicians with extensive experience treating transsexual patients. The Protocol also gives doctors a credible source which can be helpful in responding to inaccurate information patients may receive through community grapevines or other non-medical sources.

This is very important because for many of us when we go to our doctors we are the only trans-patient that our doctor has as patient, we end up teaching our doctor.