Queering medicine—urgency for trans-healthcare based on evidence and truly orientied towards transgender requirements

Abstract

Queering Medicine addresses the role of medicine and psychology in transgender healthcare against a historically heavily charged relationship between transgender persons and professionals. Improved and adequate professional care for transgender persons will only be succesful when prejudices and traditional convictions about the gender dichotomy will be overcome. It is crucial for a professional and respectful relationship with transgender persons that medicine and psychology learn to accept gender individuality and diversity. This article also describes terminology, and briefly depicts the historical background of transgender medicine. Moreover recommended proceedings for Germany, Austria and Switzerland are described and critically appraised. Also, special attention is paid to the recently released German S3-guideline on ‚Gender incongruence, genderdysphoria and trans-health‘. Last but not least role and duties of endocrinologists dealing with transgender persons is illuminated.