Riflessioni sull’attuale percorso di transizione in Italia

Titolo Rivista RIVISTA DI SESSUOLOGIA CLINICA
Autori/Curatori Luca Semenzato, Clara Baldin, Maria Laura Mitra, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Laura Giovanna Giannoni, Massimo Di Grazia
Anno di pubblicazione 2020 Fascicolo 2020/2
Lingua Italiano Numero pagine 18 P. 83-100 Dimensione file 259 KB
DOI 10.3280/RSC2020-002005
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In questo articolo gli autori esamineranno l’attuale situazione italiana per quanto concerne i trattamenti di conferma del genere (GCT) e, alla luce delle ulti-me ricerche e review della letteratura sui GCT, verranno analizzate e confrontate le linee guida dell’Osservatorio Nazionale sull’Identità di Genere (ONIG) e della World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Gli autori mostreranno come l’attuale percorso, che prevede, prima dell’accesso ai GCT, la risoluzione di ogni altro disagio psichico presente, potrebbe essere modificato per mi-gliorare lo stato di benessere delle persone transgender e gender non-conforming (TGNC), trattando la disforia prima o contemporaneamente ai disturbi secondari. Si evidenzierà inoltre come la popolazione affetta da disforia di genere risulti par-ticolarmente suscettibile allo sviluppo di disturbi psichiatrici, con evidenti costi in termini di qualità di vita per la persona e per il sistema sanitario che deve farsene carico. Infine, verrà evidenziato che il miglioramento dei servizi sociosanitari per le persone transgender contribuirebbe a migliorare la qualità della vita della popola-zione TGNC italiana anche grazie ad una depatologizzazione delle identità non coerenti col genere assegnato.;

Keywords:Transgender, Disforia di genere, GCT, Disturbi secondari, ONIG, WPATH.

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Luca Semenzato, Clara Baldin, Maria Laura Mitra, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Laura Giovanna Giannoni, Massimo Di Grazia, Riflessioni sull’attuale percorso di transizione in Italia in "RIVISTA DI SESSUOLOGIA CLINICA" 2/2020, pp 83-100, DOI: 10.3280/RSC2020-002005