Today the first meeting of the working group the Ministry of Health of Ukraine for creation a unified clinical protocol by the diagnosis “Transsexualism”

The results:
1) The new standard will be based on health care standards transsexuals, transgender people and gender non-conforming individuals 7th edition released WPATH – World Professional Association for Transgender Health («the worldwide professional association for transgender health”).

2) For a sample scheme provision of medical care are taken:
– Good practice guidelines for the assessment and treatment of adults with gender dysphoria
– Interim Gender Dysphoria Protocol and Service Guideline 2013/14
-Gender dysphoria services: a guide for General Practitioners and other healthcare staff
and other…naturally with adaptation to national context.

3) Working Group, supported our initiative DECIDED: to go beyond the concept of “Transsexualism”, approved by ICD10, refusing from him priority use.
The main principle of national standard should become centralization on the individual the patient and his needs, that is, a person who applies for health services should receive them.
Therefore it will be introduced the concept of “gender dysphoria”, as a group of states that have expressed by discomfort or distress and are caused by discrepancy between the individual’s gender identity and gender established him at birth.
Ie at the moment are going an extension target group of recipients of medical services by adding variations of transgender people and gender-nonconforming persons.

4) Juvenile persons with gender dysphoria will also be included in the new standard.

The issue of inclusion intersex persons in national standard will be considered at the next meeting.