Medical
This past week, the American Medical Association amended their nondiscrimination policy to include "gender identity", providing a huge step forward in the language of inclusiveness in the medical field.
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More U.S. employers cover sex transition surgery
Large corporations follow city's lead in offering benefit
- Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
People who change their gender must undergo rigorous mental health evaluations and trial periods that last years, and they sometimes face stigma, but the biggest challenge for many is paying for the process.
In the past few years, however, following the model of San Francisco, some of the world's largest employers have begun covering surgical procedures, including gender-reassignment surgery, and a host of other related care...
The Kinsey Institute has recently started providing sex therapy services at the Indiana University Health Center in Bloomington. These services are available to community members and IU students.
First, the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) has changed its name to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). WPATH is an organization of scientific, medical, legal, and other professionals around the world who focus on transgender research, education, and standards of care.
ISNA is hosting the First DSD Symposium, a gathering of intersex adults, parents, and allied healthcare professionals. This is your chance to meet and learn from others working to improve the quality of healthcare for families with children born with Disorders of Sex Development, and for adults dealing with the many ongoing healthcare concerns that result from DSDs.
The conference takes place in San Francisco, at the Parc 55 Hotel, Friday October 13 thru Sunday October 15.
The DSD Symposium is a mini-conference, held within the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association’s annual conference. Registrants to the GLMA conference are welcome to attend all DSD Symposium presentations. Those who are specifically interested in DSDs may register for the DSD Symposium only, at a reduced rate ($125 thru September 15; $150 afterward).
Dr. John Money, one of the nation's pre-eminent sex researchers who pioneered the study of gender identity and helped establish Johns Hopkins as the first hospital in the country to perform adult sex-change operations, died Friday. He was 84.
