The new model of Health that depathologizes transsexuality is a pioneer in Europe
GAYLES.TV.- Since Monday, October 24, 2016, transsexuals in Catalonia who want to start hormonal treatment to change their sex will no longer require the psychiatric diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Bill Departament de Salut of the Generalitat de Catalunya today introduced a new model of care for the health of trans people that is pioneer in Europe.
Center Trànsit from Manso street in Barcelona will be the reference point that will guide all trans people who want to access treatment. He thus departs to the Gender Identity Unit of Hospital Clínic responding to one of the demands that the trans collective has been demanding for a long time.
Currently there 437 people in treatment to change sex and every year 93 new women ask to start hormonal treatment, which will last two years, before entering the surgical waiting list to undergo sex change surgery. According to the data you have offered Cristina Nadal, director general of Health Care of the Catalan Health Service, in Hospital Clínic there are 155 transsexuals who expect to undergo a vaginoplasty and another 98 for a mastectomy.
The conseller of Salut Antoni Comín has announced that a batch of $250.000 in the budgets of 2017 to reinforce the Trànsit center.
Here you have the new model of health care for transsexual people.
Sources: La Vanguardia, El Periodico
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