What is it about?
The dramatic increase in medical, surgical, and psychiatric evaluative services for this population is not being conducted in an ethical manner which requires short and long term risks, benefits, and alternative treatments to be explained. The consequences of perfunctory or nonexistent informed consent processes may be an increase in profound unhappiness later in life and the wish to de-transition. The problem is often that the patient who desires to transition is unable to process its risks.
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Why is it important?
Work needs to be done to define the risks and benefits of every type of professional intervention in keeping with modern ethical/legal standards of care delivery.
Perspectives
This article is not an opposition to trans care; it is an attempt to think more clearly about the serious implications of gender change, with and without various medical interventions
Stephen Levine
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This page is a summary of: Informed Consent for Transgendered Patients, Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, December 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0092623x.2018.1518885.
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