{"id":3988,"date":"2020-01-13T06:40:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T06:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2020-01-13T06:40:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T06:40:50","slug":"brazil-lowers-minimum-age-for-sex-change-surgery-to-18-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/brazil-lowers-minimum-age-for-sex-change-surgery-to-18-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Lowers Minimum Age For Sex Change Surgery To 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: eurasiareview.com<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) on Thursday (Jan. 9) issued a resolution changing the rules governing procedures directed at transgender people.<\/p>\n

The new rules reduce the minimum age for gender reassignment surgery from 21 to 18 years old and stipulate that cross-sex hormone therapy must not be administered until the age of 16.<\/p>\n

The move is believed to help monitor the health condition of trans people and train health agents whose job is to offer assistance to this segment of the population.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis subject has been debated for 15 years. This resolution comes as an enhancement, a maturing of concepts. It deals mainly with the inclusion of the needs of these people in health care, encompassing treatments\u2014like hormone treatment. It also bring surgical procedures up to date,\u201d said CFM head Donizetti Giamberardino at a press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf no rules are made, you can end up causing a lot more harm and taking inappropriate attitudes, often with no scientific criteria,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Care for transgender individuals must be offered by a multidisciplinary team of doctors including a pediatrician, if the patient is younger than 18, a psychiatrist, an endocrinologist, a gynecologist, a urologist, a plastic surgeon, and more.<\/p>\n

The text says that transgender children and adolescents must receive treatment from a medical team, with no hormone or surgical intervention (see below). An individual treatment plan must be adopted for any procedure.<\/p>\n

The execution of surgical and hormone procedures in people diagnosed with some severe forms of psychotic disorders, personality disorders, mental retardation, and global developmental delay was banned.<\/p>\n

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