RT Journal Article
T1 [The trans depathologization perspective: a contribution to public health approaches and clinical practices in mental health? SESPAS Report 2020].
T2 La perspectiva de despatologización trans: ¿una aportación para enfoques de salud pública y prácticas clínicas en salud mental? Informe SESPAS 2020.
A1 Suess Schwend, Amets
K1 Derechos humanos
K1 Determinantes sociales de la salud
K1 Discriminación social
K1 Gender identity
K1 Human rights
K1 Identidad de género
K1 Mental health services
K1 Servicios de salud mental
K1 Social determinants of health
K1 Social discrimination
AB Over the last decade, the academic-activist trans depathologization perspective has contributed to a change in the conceptualization of gender transition processes. Observing an interrelation between psychiatrization and transphobic violence, trans depathologization activist groups and allies demand the removal of the diagnostic classification of transexuality as a mental disorder. Furthermore, they have developed trans health care models and legal gender recognition processes based on depathologization and human rights perspectives. They propose changing the role of mental health professionals in trans health care, substituting the psychiatric assessment role by accompaniment and psychological support tasks. The trans depathologization perspective can be related to various approaches and topics relevant in public health and mental health, among them sociology of diagnosis, human rights based approaches to health, human rights protection in mental health, universal health coverage, review of diagnostic classifications, intersectionality perspectives, reflections on bioethical principles, models of integrated people-centered health services and approaches to research ethics. Over the last few years, informed decision-making models have been developed for trans health care in several countries and world regions. Health professionals, including mental health professionals, as well as professionals from the educational and judicial-administrative sector, can have an important role in addressing situations of discrimination and transphobic violence, contributing to the construction of a society that respects, recognizes and celebrates gender diversity.
YR 2020
FD 2020-09-09
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/16249
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/16249
LA es
DS RISalud
RD Apr 17, 2025