I know this is gonna be god wyatt don't you talk about anything else but hey.
Piece of medical news.
A clinic in America is now practicing Informed Consent as their way of dealing with transgender patients.
Instead of spending months on end in costly therapy, instead they carry out three steps (dunno what those steps are) to basically ensure the patient knows what they are about to go through (hormonal replacement therapy), and if the doctors are happy that the patient knows and gives full consent, the doctors provide their consent for the patient to have prescribed drugs and such.
Basically it helps with the redefinition of transsexuality from a mental illness to a medical condition. Due to it's nature the syndrome is only self diagnosable; but it is not a mental illness - the mind is completely healthy and normal, and nothing changes there, it is only the body that is "wrong".
http://www.howardbrown.org/hb_services.asp?id=37
That's not to say therapy can't be helpful, of course, just it is not needed in every single case because it is not a mental disorder.
Piece of medical news.
A clinic in America is now practicing Informed Consent as their way of dealing with transgender patients.
Instead of spending months on end in costly therapy, instead they carry out three steps (dunno what those steps are) to basically ensure the patient knows what they are about to go through (hormonal replacement therapy), and if the doctors are happy that the patient knows and gives full consent, the doctors provide their consent for the patient to have prescribed drugs and such.
Basically it helps with the redefinition of transsexuality from a mental illness to a medical condition. Due to it's nature the syndrome is only self diagnosable; but it is not a mental illness - the mind is completely healthy and normal, and nothing changes there, it is only the body that is "wrong".
http://www.howardbrown.org/hb_services.asp?id=37
That's not to say therapy can't be helpful, of course, just it is not needed in every single case because it is not a mental disorder.