Transgender Health

Documento guía de práctica clínica, destinada a médicxs y otrxs integrantes de los equipos de salud, que tiene como objeto sistematizar una serie de recomendaciones, con la mejor
evidencia disponible, sobre tratamientos de modificación corporal hormonal, así como
aspectos de la atención integral de la salud de las personas trans*. Esta guía apunta a facilitar la toma
de decisiones de lxs médicxs y mejorar la calidad de los procesos de atención clínica, promoviendo la autonomía y las decisiones plenamente informadas en salud de las personas trans*.
Además, cuenta con recomendaciones vinculadas a atención y de la salud integral y, más específicamente, rastreos y atención de la salud sexual integral.

Im September 2017 veranstalteten wir an der Fakultät für Sozial-und Rechtswis-senschaften der SRH Hochschule Heidelberg die interdisziplinäre (Workshop-) Tag g mi dem Ti el Be a g e k e Leiblichkeit Macht Diffe-e , a de die S die g ge S iale A bei Psychosoziale Beratung und Gesundheitsförderung sowie Kindheitswissenschaften (childhood studies) betei-ligt waren. Die Tagung hatte zum Ziel, einerseits an die bereits unter dem Label New School Beratungsansätze firmierenden normativitätskritischen bzw. post-strukturalistischen Ansätze in der Beratung anzuschließen 1 und diese zu erwei-tern, zudem körperbasierte und leibphänomenologische Perspektiven auf Bera-tung und Beratungshandeln zu diskutieren. Der interdisziplinär angelegte Aus-tausch von sozialwissenschaftlich und geisteswissenschaftlich alias körpersozio-logisch, sozialpädagogisch, bildungstheoretisch, leibphänomenologisch, philo-sophisch sowie auch psychologisch-neurowissenschaftlich Forschenden zu Bera-1 Hier ist insbesondere die vernetzte, heterogene, reflexive Perspektive (John McLeod 2013) sowie die inter-und transdisziplinär geforderte Vernetzung der Disziplinen (im Besonderen, Soziologie, Philosophie, Kulturwissenschaft) gemeint, sowie diversitäts-und kulturtheoretisch, machtkritisch, feministisch, narrativanalytisch, diskurstheore-tisch, ethisch, selbst efle i e A e i de Be a g die a ch al D i g C el-li g (Mc Leod 2013) bezeichnet werden (vgl. Nestmann; Engel; Sieckendiek 2013).

Correctional healthcare providers' limited cultural and clinical competence to care for transgender patients represents a barrier to care for incarcerated transgender individuals. The present study aimed to adapt, deliver, and evaluate a transgender cultural and clinical competence intervention for correctional healthcare providers. In the summer of 2016, a theoretically-informed, group-based intervention to improve transgender cultural and clinical competence was delivered to 34 correctional healthcare providers in New England. A confidential survey assessed providers' cultural and clinical competence to care for transgender patients, self-efficacy to provide hormone therapy, subjective norms related to transgender care, and willingness to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients before and after (immediately and 3-months) the intervention. Linear mixed effects regression models were fit to assess change in study outcomes over time. Qualitative exit interviews ...

Acute discrimination has been witnessed across Asia regardless of individual countries’ specific policies towards transgender people. As individuals, it would be reassuring to believe that Article 1 of the UN Charter, which states that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” would encourage people to ignore gender differences. In different parts of Asia, even where transgender people have been officially recognized, their rights are fragile.  Indeed, today activists focus more on women’s rights than on the rights of all sexual minorities, who as a consequence often live in extreme poverty and ill-health. The exclusion of the transgender community in governmental policymaking is another salient reason for their current living conditions. Even though transgender candidates participate in elections in most countries, their representation in parliaments is rare. Furthermore, violence toward the transgender community is such a common scenario that it has become normalized. Victims rarely get support because of legal loopholes and the unwillingness of the law enforcement agencies to help. Transgender and gender diverse people are not only targeted but also discriminated by law through a denial of gender marker change on official documents; the criminalization of the gender and sexual preferences of transgender and gender diverse people; the exploitation of public order, homelessness, and minor offenses; the criminalization of consensual homosexuality and intimacy; and police abuses even in the absence of a specific offense. Regardless of parliamentary legislation and other legal frameworks, policymakers and law enforcement agencies routinely operate outside the law to violate the rights of transgender and sexual minority people. Among the abuses reported by transgender persons are blackmail, extortion, public humiliation, and physical and sexual violence. If policies to socially integrate transgender and gender diverse peoples are not implemented, the state of the transgender community in Asia will not improve.

KeywordstransgenderpolicypoliticslawsAsiadiscriminationviolencegenderrightsLGBT politics