Articles and guidance
Articles and guidance
NHS population screening: information for transgender people
This leaflet explains NHS population screening programmes available to transgender and non-binary people in England.
Access this leaflet on the GOV.UK website
Gender dysphoria: assessment and management for non-specialists
What you need to know:
- Refer patients with gender dysphoria directly to a multidisciplinary gender identity clinic
- People in a new gender role usually need a lifelong prescription of maintenance hormone therapy, which is often provided by primary care under guidance from a gender identity clinic
- A person’s earlier change of gender role is rarely clinically relevant and does not need to be mentioned unless it is
- Consider birth gender when offering routine screening for cervical and breast cancer and aortic aneurysm
- Clarify how a patient with a new role would like to be addressed and amend records accordingly to avoid subsequent upset
Note: the British Medical Journal's articles are behind a paywall, but you can sign up for a free trail to read this article.
Access this on the British Medical Journal website
Managing disclosure of gender dysphoria
A visual summary. It can be very distressing for a person to tell a health professional about conflict between their sense of self and the sexual characteristics they were born with. They will need reassurance, and careful guidance about what kinds of treatment are available.