WPATH, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, is a non-profit organization that creates and maintains Standards of Care that help dictate how health providers, institutions, and insurance plans all over the world provide health care to transgender and gender diverse individuals. It is also used by trans people, their support systems, and other institutions to better understand how to best support trans individuals.
From time to time, WPATH revises its Standards of Care and requests input from interested parties. WPATH is currently accepting such feedback on the latest proposed changes at https://www.wpath.org/soc8 with a deadline of January 16th, 2022 at 11:59pm GMT. There are many unjust, regressive, and harmful proposed elements that need to be pushed back against, and this is the chance to do that.
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