Lin Fraser

TL;DR: This version of the SOC recognizes that treatment for gender dysphoria has become more individualized, and can be used to help patients consider the full range of health services open to them, in accordance with their clinical needs and goals for gender expression.

TL;DR: The SOC-8 guidelines are intended to be flexible to meet the diverse health care needs of TGD people globally and offer standards for promoting optimal health care and guidance for the treatment of people experiencing gender incongruence.

TL;DR: An overview of best practices as set forth in the seventh edition of the Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health is provided, including mental health, endocrinology, and surgery for trans women and trans men.

TL;DR: To the knowledge, this represents the first report of an apparently incidental pituitary adenoma in the setting of documented resistance to thyroid hormone, and raises the question of whether RTH predisposes to pituitaries hyperplasia and adenomas.

TL;DR: The psychotherapy in the Standards of Care (SOC) of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) as discussed by the authors provides background and makes recommendations for the psychotherapy section of the next revision of the SOC.