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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...

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 work together with the CMHS to improve trans persons care

by Equipo OTD | Mar 1, 2019 | Education

In 2017 OTD Chile and the Central Metropolitan Health Service (CMHS) a working group create a new protocol of attention for trans persons, besides trainings of personnel on gender identity and diversity. The document produced by professionals from the...

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...