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Gender identity

Some people feel a lasting mismatch between their gender identity and the sex they were assigned at birth, which can cause distress known as gender dysphoria. The manual in this topic, written for professionals, describes respectful psychological support centred on the person's well-being, on exploring their questions and on the difficulties that come with them, without steering in advance towards any particular outcome.

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Gender dysphoria: psychological support — a therapist's manual

A protocol of twelve sessions for adults and sixteen for adolescents, four of them with the parents, for supporting distress related to gender identity. Exploratory and non-directive support, which seeks neither to change gender identity, a conversion practice banned in France, nor to steer the person towards transition, and which treats the distress, the associated difficulties and the weight of rejection. The state of knowledge is set out position by position — WPATH, Endocrine Society, the Cass Review and the University of York reviews, the HAS — saying where the evidence is of low certainty and recalling that medical decisions belong to doctors. Suicide risk, decision support, regret and detransition, worksheets to hand over and full references.

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