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Hormone Therapy Real Life Experience (RLE) requirement

The Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People (SOC) require psychological counseling and for the patient to live a period of a time in the desired gender role, in order to assure that they can psychologically function in that gender role.^[1] This period is sometimes called the Real life experience (RLE). While this standard was widely followed in the 20th century, a growing number of physicians refuse to follow the Standards of Care, insisting that they are too restrictive and that inhibiting patient access to hormone therapy does more harm than good.

This is badly outdated and references SOCv6. The RLE requirement has been removed from SOCv7 as of 2012. The statements about requiring RLE should be removed from the article and the reference updated to use SOCv7. If no one has a reason not to revise this, I'll do so in a few days. Also WPATH is the main professional organization now, not the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association.

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^ "The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association's Standards Of Care For Gender Identity Disorders, Sixth Version" (PDF). February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-12-14.

No sources at all

There are no sources at all for Hormone_replacement_therapy_(female-to-male)#Medical_contraindications. 12.14.180.12 (talk) 09:34, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I found and added a source, but this article needs a lot more work. I'm not an expert but I will bookmark and revisit to see if I can help add more good sources. Funcrunch (talk) 07:47, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think the contraindications may have simply been copied off a pharma website. I'll try to take time out to check them as in 10 years things may have changed. I also find the list of side-effects to be unnecessarily alarmist, so that likely needs revision as well, if only to make it clear that starting T is exactly like going through puberty, with all that entails. Anarchic teapot (talk) 17:06, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association's Standards Of Care For Gender Identity Disorders, Sixth Version" (PDF). February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-12-14.

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