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These standards provide expert clinical guidance for healthcare professionals working with transgender and gender diverse (TGD) patients to develop individualised, age-appropriate care plans to improve health and overall well-being.

This guide addresses how the specific services trans people access in the healthcare system relate to human rights principles. It aims to support the creation of healthcare legislation and protocols that are compliant with human rights. The guidelines depict what trans-specific healthcare should look like, providing concrete examples of what trans people’s rights look like and what should or shouldn’t happen in trans-specific healthcare.

This section of TransHub is for health professionals who are seeking to strengthen the clinical care they deliver to trans patients and clients. It contains guidelines on the informed consent model and hormone therapy.

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Additional companion resources:

• GP Management Plan: Masculinising hormones - TransHub & Dr. Holly Inglis

• GP Management Plan: Feminising hormones - TransHub & Dr. Holly Inglis

• Informed consent: Masculinising hormones - Dr. Michelle Guttman-Jones

• Informed consent: Feminising hormones - Dr. Michelle Guttman-Jones

Guidelines for gender-affirming primary care, including assessing readiness, diagnosis, hormone therapy, blood work monitoring and links to the surgeries that are covered by OHIP. Also included are consent forms and EAP forms.

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Additional companion resources:

• Quick Reference Guide for Primary Care Providers (PCPs)

• Trans Primary Care Guide, the online interactive tool based on the Guidelines

These guidelines are designed to reduce barriers and improve health outcomes for trans, gender diverse and non binary people accessing hormone therapy to affirm their gender. Under an ‘informed consent’ model of care, general practitioners perform the initial assessment, play a key role in mental health and risk assessments for TGD & NB clients, and organise referral for secondary consultation where required. It would be envisaged that the general practitioner would remain the primary treating physician for the majority of clients.

Clinical protocols for the administration of gender-affirming hormone therapy including both exogenous and supplemental dosing guides for estrogen and testosterone. It includes pros, cons, dosing recommendations, and lab recommendations for monitoring purposes.

This MedCase considers how GPs can safely provide repeat prescriptions for patients who have already commenced gender-affirming hormone therapy.

This reference guide combines knowledge and theory, together with current international guidance, research and opinion to inform general practice teams about how to help those patients whose gender identity differs from the one they were assigned at birth. It serves as an accessible aid, offering top-line guidance and best practice to those who need it.

Pocket reference for fast, at-the-bedside support around gender affirming hormone therapy (GAHT). This guide is for use in the day-to-day practice of a primary care provider.

These new national Standards of Care are intended to assist and enable clinicians across Australia to better meet the medical gender affirmation needs of their trans women, trans men and non-binary patients. They unapologetically centre the trans person seeking hormonal intervention and empower the clinician to facilitate this access.

This guide is for anyone who wants to know more about one of the lesser known routes to accessing hormones via the NHS. This guide provides peer-produced information and links to resources about bridging prescriptions.