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. 2021 Apr 23;48(2):213–226. doi: 10.1016/j.pop.2021.02.008

Table 1.

Organizational gender affirmation care guidelines and recommendations

Organization Year Title (Citation) Description (from Web Page/Abstract)
World Professional Association for Transgender Health 2011 Standards of Care, Version 711 Standards of Care, Version 7, provides clinical guidance for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming people.
Endocrine Society 2017 Endocrine Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline12 The 2017 guideline on endocrine treatment of gender dysphoric/gender incongruent persons
University of California, San Francisco Transgender Care 2016 Guidelines for the Primary and Gender affirmation care of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary People13 Guidelines were developed to complement the existing World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care and the Endocrine Society guidelines in that they are specifically designed for implementation in everyday evidence-based primary care, including settings with limited resources.
The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health 2015 Comprehensive transgender healthcare: the gender affirming clinical and public health model of Fenway Health14 This report describes the evolution of a Boston community health center's multidisciplinary model of transgender health care, research, education, and dissemination of best practices.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 2011 Health Care for Transgender Individuals. Committee Opinion No. 51215 This committee opinion provides guidance and recommendations for the health care of transgender individuals.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 2017 Care for Transgender Adolescents. Committee Opinion No. 68516 This committee opinion reflects recommendations for care of transgender adolescents based on the emerging clinical and scientific advances in transgender health.
TransLine 2019 TransLine Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy Prescriber Guidelines17 National standardized guideline of best practices in hormonal therapy provision as a reference to achieve uniformity for the Transgender Medical Consultation Service.