Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7 - International Journal of Transgenderism - Volume 13, Issue 4 - 1 views
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anonymous on 15 Apr 13" The SOC are based on the best available science and expert professional consensus. Because most of the research and experience in this field comes from a North American and Western European perspective, adaptations of the SOC to other parts of the world are necessary. The SOC articulate standards of care while acknowledging the role of making informed choices and the value of harm reduction approaches. In addition, this version of the SOC 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."