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The focus should be on treating the patient's feelings of anxiety so they can live happy and productive lives without being saddled with anxiety,

So your choices are xanex or getting your weiner chopped off?

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Posted by Hog on the Hill

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Posted on 1/28/16 at 12:27 pm to LucasP

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So your choices are xanex or getting your weiner chopped off?

No, your options are these:

Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual,
Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7

ABSTRACT. The Standards of Care (SOC) for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender
Nonconforming People is a publication of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health
(WPATH). The overall goal of the SOC is to provide clinical guidance for health professionals to
assist transsexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming people with safe and effective pathways to
achieving lasting personal comfort with their gendered selves, in order to maximize their overall health,
psychological well-being, and self-fulfillment. This assistance may include primary care, gynecologic
and urologic care, reproductive options, voice and communication therapy, mental health services (e.g.,
assessment, counseling, psychotherapy), and hormonal and surgical treatments. 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. Some individuals who present for care will have made significant self-directed
progress towards gender role changes or other resolutions regarding their gender identity or gender
dysphoria. Other individuals will require more intensive services. Health professionals can use the SOC
to help patients consider the full range of health services open to them, in accordance with their clinical
needs and goals for gender expression.

This post was edited on 1/28/16 at 12:29 pm

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