TY - JOUR
T1 - Review of world professional association for transgender health's standards of care for children and adolescents with gender identity disorder
T2 - A need for change?
AU - De Vries, Annelou L.C.
AU - Cohen-Kettenis, Peggy T.
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - With the upcoming seventh edition of the Standards of Care (SOC), this article addresses various relevant aspects of the assessment and treatment of gender-dysphoric children and adolescents. In this article, the recently published literature on the phenomenology, the diagnostic process, and the psychological, social, and physical treatment options are reviewed. On the basis of the existing literature, no major changes are warranted. Recommendations for adjustments concern (1) the acknowledgement that childhood GID and adolescent GID are related, but not entirely similar, phenomena; (2) a more precise indication of which areas of functioning should be explored during the diagnostic phase; (3) an elaboration on the informed consent procedure; (4) the distinction between the purposes of the GnRH analogues and cross-sex hormone use (diagnostic versus treatment); (5) complete social gender changes long before puberty; and (6) monitoring the physical development during pubertal suppression.
AB - With the upcoming seventh edition of the Standards of Care (SOC), this article addresses various relevant aspects of the assessment and treatment of gender-dysphoric children and adolescents. In this article, the recently published literature on the phenomenology, the diagnostic process, and the psychological, social, and physical treatment options are reviewed. On the basis of the existing literature, no major changes are warranted. Recommendations for adjustments concern (1) the acknowledgement that childhood GID and adolescent GID are related, but not entirely similar, phenomena; (2) a more precise indication of which areas of functioning should be explored during the diagnostic phase; (3) an elaboration on the informed consent procedure; (4) the distinction between the purposes of the GnRH analogues and cross-sex hormone use (diagnostic versus treatment); (5) complete social gender changes long before puberty; and (6) monitoring the physical development during pubertal suppression.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Children
KW - Cross-sex hormones
KW - Gender dysphoria
KW - Gender identity disorder
KW - GnRH analogues
KW - Puberty suppressing hormones
KW - Sex reassignment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=72849137515&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/15532730903008040
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/15532730903008040
M3 - Article
SN - 1553-2739
VL - 11
SP - 100
EP - 109
JO - International Journal of Transgenderism
JF - International Journal of Transgenderism
IS - 2
ER -