CNN —The major global medical association for endocrinologists will review its clinical guidelines for gender-affirming care, the Endocrine Society told CNN on Monday.
The society’s current guidelines lay out the appropriate treatment for transgender or gender-diverse people, both children and adults.
The last time the committee updated its gender-affirming care guidelines was in 2017; it previously revised them in 2009.
Every major US medical association – including the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry – agrees that gender-affirming care is clinically appropriate for children and adults.
Safer said he understands that there is some political sensitivity surrounding the practice and that some gender-affirming care specialists have received threats because of their work.
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