Gender transition: the High Authority for Health recommends taking charge of “all requests for care”, “without judgment or preconceived ideas”

This is a medical issue that has resonated far beyond health circles: the French National Authority for Health (HAS) published 152 recommendations on the care of people undergoing gender transition on Friday, July 18. These are the first on the subject for this body, whose opinions and recommendations provide the official framework for health policies.

Hormone therapy, surgical interventions, psychological support… The document goes into detail on best practices to be disseminated to all healthcare professionals. The objective is to combat territorial inequalities in care, sources of discrimination, self-medication and, possibly, the refusal of care. With, as a common thread, the idea that “access to transitional care is not a “comfort” but a vital issue in terms of well-being, self-image, personal life, overall health and also social life” .

Included in the preamble, the sentence was also stated to the press on Friday by Claire Compagnon, chair of the HAS's recommendations, pathways, relevance, and indicators committee. Alongside her, the body's president, Lionel Collet, emphasized the "infinitely societal issue that has led to reactions beyond" what the HAS is accustomed to experiencing.

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