Description:

There have been significant paradigmatic changes in models of assessment and treatment of gender incongruence. This workshop will review the historical shifts including changes in the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care. The workshop will review updated diagnostic criteria, assessment and treatment methods. The presenter will present a treatment model using a trans-affirmative approach with case illustrations and discussion.

Educational Objectives:

1. Describe the main paradigmatic changes in the assessment and treatment of gender incongruence which has occurred over the last 50 years
2. Name at least three changes which has occurred in the history of the WPATH Standards of Care
3. Describe the main elements of the GALA model of treatment of gender incongruence

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*