Standards of Care version 7

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Volume 7 of the Standards of Care is available in 18 different languages.
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Arabic	Chinese	Croatian
English	Finnish	French
German	Hindi	Italian
Japanese	Korean	Norwegian
Persian	Portuguese	Russian
Serbian	Spanish	Vietnamese
Polish

WPATH gratefully acknowledges the generous support of GIRES (Gender Identity Research and Education Society)
of the UK, which has made our SOC translation efforts possible.

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health promotes the highest standards of health care for individuals through the articulation of Standards of Care (SOC) for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People. The SOC are based on the best available science and expert professional consensus.

The overall goal of the SOC is to provide clinical guidance for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming people with safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort with their gendered selves, in order to maximize their overall health, psychological well-being, and self-fulfillment. This assistance may include primary care, gynecologic and urologic care, reproductive options, voice and communication therapy, mental health services (e.g., assessment, counseling, psychotherapy), and hormonal and surgical treatments. While this is primarily a document for health professionals, the SOC may also be used by individuals, their families, and social institutions to understand how they can assist with promoting optimal health for members of this diverse population.

This is the 7th version of the Standards of Care since the original 1979 document. The first six versions were published in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1990, 1998, and 2001. Version 7 of the Standards of Care (SOC) for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People will be available in several additional places for wide distribution and ease of access.

SOC Companion Document
Voice and Communication Change for Gender Nonconforming Individuals: Giving Voice to the Person Inside
Shelagh Davies, Viktória G. Papp & Christella Antoni

Request for Permission to Reprint Excerpt of the Standards of Care, Volume 7

The WPATH Standards of Care are a copyrighted publication which is made freely available in English and many other languages. We are very pleased to grant you permission to re-print an excerpt under the condition that the source of the excerpt is cited in such a way as to give full credit and ownership to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and the authors of the document. Please note that if a table or diagram is used, it must be printed in full image, as it appears in the guidelines.

Reference the Standards of Care as follows:

World Professional Association for Transgender Health. (2012). Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People [7^th Version]. https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc