Just before Christmas, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that it would publish new transgender health guidelines .
A panel of 21 experts will meet between 19 and 24 February this year at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to work on the guidelines. The membership of this panel has been criticised for being biased towards policies allowing gender self-identification . WHO has a ‘Department for Gender, Health and Equity’
The organization responsible for these guidelines is the WHO’s Department for Gender, Health and Equity – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. It says volumes about the WHO’s attitude to healthcare that it uses the term ‘gender’ instead of acknowledging biological sex.
Other WHO departments involved are the Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infection Programmes department, along with the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research department. Guidelines will promote gender self-identification The guidelines are said to focus […]
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