Health Resources

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Primary Health Care

Your Everyday Wellness Guide: a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community resource

Trans People and Cancer

Trans People and Cardiovascular Disease

Trans People and Diabetes

Getting Trans-Competent Care: How to work with your nurse or doctor

Trans People and Osteoporosis

Trans People and Vaccinations

Fit or Fatphobic? Trans People, Weight and Health

Transgender Primary Medical Care: Suggested Guidelines for Clinicians in British Columbia

LGBT Communities and Substance Use - What Health Has To Do With It!

An Overview of U.S. Trans Health Priorities

Mental and Emotional Health Care

Bereavement: A guide for Transsexual, Transgender people and
their loved ones

Choosing Therapy

Counselling and Mental Health Care of Transgender Adults and Loved Ones

Recommended Framework for Training Mental Health Clinicians in Transgender Care

Therapy: Your First Visit

Sexual Health

HIV Prevention and Health Service Needs of the Transgender Community in
San Francisco

Keeping it Real: Transgender Inclusion in safer sex education.
Notes for Risk Educators and Outreach Workers.

Happy Transsexual Hooker

PRIMED: The Back Pocket Guide For Transmen & The Men Who Dig Them

Transitioning, Hormones, Surgery, etc...

Creative ways to get money for Surgery

Transitioning FAQ (pamphlet)

FTM Hormone Therapy (pamphlet)

MTF Hormone Therapy (pamphlet)

Getting Hormones

Getting Sex Reassignment Surgery

Hormones: A Guide for FTMs

Hormones: A guide for MTFs

Preparing to see your Doctor or Psychiatrist regarding Transition

Mastectomy Summary

Real Life Experience

Changing Speech

Surgery: A Guide for FTMs

Surgery: A guide for MTFs

Resources for Physicians and Nurses

Tips for Clinical Workers

Hormone Treatment in Transsexuals
Henk Asscheman, M.D. and Louis J.G. Gooren, M.D.

Clinical management of gender identity disorder in adolescents: a protocol on psychological and paediatric endocrinology aspects

Competent Care of the Transgendered Patient: Nurses as Advocates

Caring for Transgender Adolescents in BC: Suggested Guidelines

Social and Medical Advocacy with Transgender People and Loved Ones: Recommendations for BC Clinicians

Endocrine Therapy for Transgender Adults in British Columbia:
Suggested Guidelines

Counselling and Mental Health Care of Transgender Adults and Loved Ones

Transgender Primary Medical Care: Suggested Guidelines for Clinicians in British Columbia

Care of the Patient Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS)

Real Transwomen Quit: Motivation to quit Smoking

Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men

Health Law Standards of Care for Transsexualism

Tom Waddell Health Center Protocols for Hormonal Reassignment of Gender

Recommended Framework for Training Mental Health Clinicians in Transgender Care

Recommended Framework for Training in Transgender Primary Medical Care

Trans Healthcare Poster