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WPATH

Summary

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is an international medical organization that develops and publishes standards of care for transgender and gender-diverse individuals, whose guidelines shape medical practice in gender-affirming care.

Core Contribution

Sets the global standards for transgender medical care; its SOC8 guidelines have become both foundational to gender medicine and central to controversies about pediatric transition.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • transgender medicine
  • gender-affirming care
  • medical standards
  • WPATH Files

Historical Influences

Harry Benjamin John Money sexology tradition

Intellectual Lineage

Harry Benjamin transgender medicine sexology

Contemporaries & Peers

APAEndocrine SocietyAAP

Minds Influenced

Gender-affirming care standards global trans medicine practice

Intellectual Posterity

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