Health | OTD Chile

Status of trans people in Chile

by Equipo OTD | Jun 6, 2019 | Health

Health Access to health care is not specifically guaranteed for trans people in any law. The regulations that exist in this regard correspond to administrative documents issued by the Ministry of Health and some specific Health Services. The health services are the...

The Hospital Sotero del Rio in Santiago,Chile received more than 300 users and they did 5 vaginoplasties in a year on the gender identity program

by Equipo OTD | May 2, 2019 | Depathologization, Health

This March 19th, the gender identity program from Hospital Sotero del Rio celebrated a year of function since it’s official launch on January 2018. Nowadays there are 315 users since June 2017 to date, also they had 5 surgery of genital transformation...

OTD Chile had 422 attentions in 2018

by Equipo OTD | May 2, 2019 | Community, Health

The attention unit and counselling between pairs of the OTD Chile had 422 attentions since January to December 2018 for transgender people, family and also couples. 97% of them attended to a counseling in pairs, a protected space where they gave them information in...

Activists manifested by transphobic words of the Chilean Society of Endocrinology

by Equipo OTD | Mar 21, 2019 | Depathologization, Health

Organizations and activists of the civil society have adhered to the call of OTD Chile to demonstrate against the Society of Endocrinology and Diabetes of Chile, Soched, for its intervention during the process of the gender identity law in order to exclude children...

Law 21.120: The non-pathologization principle. What does it mean?

by Equipo OTD | Mar 20, 2019 | Depathologization, Gender Identity Law, Health

Since 2008 the trans movement of the world set its sights on the non-pathologization of trans identities. With the slogan “Stop Trans Pathologization” from Europe, Latin American trans people began to question the need to present psychological or...

OTD Chile and Soched open dialogue for future collaborative work

by Equipo OTD | Feb 1, 2019 | Depathologization, Health, Public Politics

On December 12th, OTD Chile met with Soched, the Chilean Endocrinology and Diabetes Society, President Pedro Pineda and two of its members to discuss the requests submitted by the organization and the new work being carried out by their associate doctors. This is the...