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Opinion of the Specialists
Quotes from Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association “Standards of Care,” Sixth Version, 2001:
- Hormones are often medically necessary for successful living in the new gender.
- In persons diagnosed with transsexualism or profound GID, sex reassignment surgery, along with hormone therapy and real-life experience, is a treatment that has proven to be effective. Such a therapeutic regimen, when prescribed or recommended by qualified practitioners, is medically indicated and medically necessary. Sex reassignment is not "experimental," "investigational," "elective," "cosmetic," or optional in any meaningful sense. It constitutes very effective and appropriate treatment for transsexualism or profound GID.
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