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Letter to quartermaster transgender health are
At the end of May this year, the Quartermaster Transgender Health Care published their Future Vision. The purpose of this is both to put pressure on and to stimulate existing care and its expansion (which it succeeds in doing!). After Principle 17 had sent a letter last year with a comment on their research on…
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Almirall: “Trans* health care is not complicated”
Europe has a number of clinics where you as a trans* person can go without the health care providers nagging you. Amsterdam has had such a clinic for a year, London and Barcelona have had a clinic for some time. Elsewhere in Spain you can go to most health clinics in Andalusia. Below is a…
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World Health Assembly adopts ICD-11!
This morning, 25 May 2019 at around 10:00, the ICD Committee of the World Health Organization has approved the eleventh edition of this universal classification of diseases. An important episode in the fight for depathologising and health care on a human rights basis has ended.
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EPATH Rome 2019
From 11 to 13 April 2019, the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) held their third biennial conference. This time in Rome, with about six hundred participants. On 13 and 14 April, Italian activists had organised a DEpath meeting. There were about forty people present from home and abroad.
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Principle 17 facilitates expert meetings about trans health care
After years of lobbying, politics has now understood that the situation of Dutch trans health care is harrowing, and that a sustainable solution must be achieved. This summer, a quartermaster was appointed, who will advise the parliament on the way to follow. Principle 17 considers it important that the needs and wishes of all trans*…
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World Health Organization moves to end classifying trans identities as mental illness
The World Health Organization today released an online version of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 11 that removes trans identities from the mental health disorders chapter. This is a historic achievement the global trans community has been fighting for over many years. It sets the fundament for a new era of reparation for done injustice
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Principle 17 starts new petition “Structural expansion of transgender health care is highly necessary!”
Principle 17 is deeply concerned about the again dramatically accumulated waiting times in transgender health care. That is why this collective has started the petition “Structural expansion of transgender health care is essential!”. Help us and sign the petition too! The petition is addressed to the Lower House (‘Tweede Kamer’) and can be signed until
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Answer to the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport
Principle 17 is pleased with the letters from Minister Schippers of 15 June 2017, “Subsidy scheme for breast implants for transgender people” en “Committee request response to a petition and report from Principle 17 regarding Trans health care in the Netherlands” [both in Dutch], but also criticizes them. Breast implantsWe are certainly happy that the
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Health care expansion UMCG and VUmc too little too late
Today, 17th of May 2017, the gender teams of VUmc and UMCG came with the joyful announcement that they will expand their treatment capacity for transgender health care recipients. Amsterdam met 20%, Groningen with 100%. Principle 17 is pleased that this happens, but also regards it as ‘too little, too late’. Even with the capacity
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English edition report released
Finally the English language edition of the report on Dutch trans health care is out. You can download it here. On this page we reported more on its discontents. We will distribute the report over the relevant e-mail lists for foreign and international trans* and LGBTI organizations and activists. In case you have similar research
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