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Health care for trans people in Chile

by VersionIngles | Aug 5, 2020 | Depathologization, Health

Five doctors that for different reasons have come closer to the transgender subject, share their experiences about how it is and how it should be the health care for trans people. Some of them defend total depathologizing of identities and others for having...

Being trans person is no longer a mental disorder: the ICD-11 has been published

by Equipo OTD | Dec 6, 2018 | Depathologization, Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced the end of the CIE-11 and published online the original version. The link will be shared in the next hour, once the embargo is finished. The announcement does not mark the end of the process of the ICD-11, but the...

Hospital Sótero del Río replaces category “Gender Dysphoria” with “Trans Person”

by Equipo OTD | May 24, 2018 | Depathologization, Health

Thanks to the Gender Identity program of Sótero del Río Hospital, officially launched last January and where approximately 160 trans people are treated today, the health establishment included in its computer system the category “trans person”, leaving...

Hospital Sótero del Río has the first Gender Identity program in Santiago

by Equipo OTD | May 23, 2018 | Health, Public Politics

In 2012, the first trans man came to the Hospital Complex Dr. Sótero del Río. Derived from the Program of Reparation and Comprehensive Care in the Field of Health and Human Rights (known by Spanish acronym PRAIS), attending victims of the dictatorship, to the...