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2026
Albania’s deputy minister said the 2026 hormone guidance is for adults only.
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Deputy minister — 2026 hormone guidance is adults-only.
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2025
Andorra funds hormones from 16 and surgery from 18 — under-16s get assessment, not funded hormones.
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Restricted: Decree 298/2025 public-financing rules — hormones from 16, surgery from 18; under-16s get specialist follow-up.
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2026
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MedischGeen verbodScholenCSE op scholen
2015
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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2026
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2010–2025
Belarus only runs official sex-change/correction for adults in state facilities.
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Restricted: MoH Resolution 163 (9 December 2010, as amended) is an adult-only state pathway — hormones and/or surgery after an interdepartmental commission. Not an all-ages prohibition like Russia 386-FZ.
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MedischGeen verbodScholenCSE op scholen
2023–2026
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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2026
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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MedischGeen verbodScholenSchoolverbod
2024
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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2016
Croatia’s 2016 ministry guidelines allow puberty blockers from early puberty (Tanner stage 2).
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Ministry of Health expert guidelines (NN 7/2016) set the WPATH (the World Professional Association for Transgender Health)-aligned pathway, including hormones for people with gender dysphoria.
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MedischGeen verbodScholenCSE op scholen
2010–2022
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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2025
A 2025 health-ministry methodology covers gender-incongruence care, including before 18.
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MoH Metodický pokyn (1 July 2025) standardises legal-sex-change certificates; care may start before 18.
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MedischBeperktScholenCSE op scholen
2023
Denmark is tightening clinical guidance on puberty blockers; there is no legislative ban.
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Restricted: Sundhedsstyrelsen is revising 2018 clinical guidance toward psychosocial support first — a clinical limit, not a legislative ban.
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MedischBeperktScholenCSE op scholen
2023–2025
The Social Ministry–funded hormone guideline requires adulthood before opposite-sex hormones.
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Restricted: the Social Affairs Ministry-funded hormone guideline requires adulthood (täisealisus) before hormones for sex-rejecting procedures.
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MedischBeperktScholenCSE op scholen
2020
Finland puts talk therapy first. Hormones for minors, if used, are exceptional.
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Restricted: COHERE recommends psychosocial support first; hormone treatment, where used, is centralized and exceptional.
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MedischGemengdScholenCSE op scholen
2022
France’s medical academy urged great caution.
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Mixed: the National Academy of Medicine called for the greatest medical reserve.
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MedischVerbodenScholenSchoolverbod
2024
Georgia forbids surgery or other medical manipulation to assign a sex different from biological sex, for people of any age.
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Officially banned: Family Values law Article 6 forbids surgery or other medical manipulation to assign a different sex (all ages). Not the U.S. state. Art. 6 has no carve-out that leaves puberty blockers legal.
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2025
Germany still allows puberty blockers after strict criteria.
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Mixed: the 2025 AWMF S2k guideline still permits puberty blockers after Tanner 2 under criteria.
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MedischBevestigendScholenCSE op scholen
2017–2021
Law 4491/2017 lets a person from age 15 change the registered sex after an interdisciplinary medical committee.
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Law 4491/2017 lets a person from 15 correct the registered sex marker after an interdisciplinary medical committee.
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MedischGeen verbodScholenSchoolverbod
2021
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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2019–2020
Iceland’s public pathway can refer under-18s for hormones; permanent genital surgery under 16 is excluded.
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Gender Autonomy Act; public pathway can refer under-18s for hormones; under-16 permanent genital changes need a physical-health reason.
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2025
Ireland’s health service is writing a new model of care.
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Under review: the HSE is producing a new Model of Care and reviewing the evidence.
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MedischBeperktScholenSchoolvoorstel
2024
Italy’s bioethics committee said the evidence on puberty blockers for minors is too weak.
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Restricted: CNB (22 Nov 2024, published Dec 2024) found evidence for triptorelin in minors with gender dysphoria insufficient; urged Ministry-funded independent trials and hoped prescriptions would sit within those trials.
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2026
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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MedischBevestigendScholenCSE op scholen
2013–2024
Latvia does not perform surgical sex-change on minors.
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Civil-registry sex-marker change requires a medical certificate of sex change. The national children’s hospital has documented puberty blockers for diagnosed adolescents.
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2026
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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MedischBevestigendScholenScholen gemengd
2022–2024
Lithuania’s health-ministry protocol covers diagnosis and hormone treatment for adults only.
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MoH Order V-1307 (4 August 2022) is an adults-only diagnosis and hormone-treatment pathway.
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MedischGeen verbodScholenCSE op scholen
1978–2016
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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2018
Malta’s public pathway includes hormones.
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LN 44/2018 put gender-identity conditions on the NHS schedule; the public pathway includes hormones.
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MedischGeen verbodScholenCSE op scholen
2022
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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2026
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
Officiële bronnen
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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2026
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
Officiële bronnen
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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MedischBevestigendScholenCSE op scholen
2026
The Health Council left puberty blockers and hormones available after assessment.
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Health Council 30 June 2026 advice left puberty blockers and hormones available after assessment.
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MedischBevestigendScholenSchoolbeperking
2013–2025
The health ministry’s 2013 guideline sets an official adult-framed pathway for hormones and surgery.
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The 2013 Ministry of Health evidence-based-medicine guideline on transsexualism is official medical-pathway guidance, framed for adult sex-change treatment.
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MedischBeperktScholenCSE op scholen
2023
A safety agency called puberty blockers and hormones experimental — a clinical limit, not a legislative ban.
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Restricted: Ukom recommended treating puberty blockers and hormones as experimental; that is a patient-safety recommendation, not a legislative ban.
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2025
Polish expert guidelines still endorse puberty blockers and hormones for assessed adolescents.
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Endokrynologia Polska 2025 expert-panel guidelines set puberty suppression and hormones for adolescents after assessment.
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MedischWetsvoorstelScholenCSE op scholen
2026
A bill would ban puberty blockers and hormones under 18 — parliament has not made it law.
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Proposed bill: PL 479/XVII/1ª (generalidade 20 March 2026) would prohibit puberty blockers and hormones under 18.
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MedischGeen verbodScholenScholen gemengd
2020
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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MedischVerbodenScholenSchoolverbod
2023
Russia banned medical interventions aimed at changing sex, with an exception for inborn sex-development conditions (DSD).
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Officially banned: Federal Law 386-FZ (2023) prohibits medical interventions aimed at changing sex, with a congenital/DSD exception.
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2026
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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2024
Two NHS boards paused new puberty blockers and hormones for minors — existing patients were not taken off treatment.
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Restricted: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Lothian paused new puberty blocker and opposite-sex hormone prescriptions (April 2024).
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2012–2021
The health-insurance fund’s sex-change brochure requires the person to be older than 18.
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Restricted: RFZO’s published funded sex-change pathway starts at age 18.
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MedischGeen verbodScholenSchoolbeperking
2025
No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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No official pediatric medical policy listed.
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2022
Slovenia’s public gender-identity council includes child psychiatry and endocrinology.
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The Advocate of the Principle of Equality’s 2022 special report documents medical confirmation and legal-sex-change procedures in force.
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MedischGemengdScholenCSE op scholen
2026
A Valencian rule on puberty blockers for minors is in court.
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Mixed: Valencia’s 2025 Ley 8/2017 amendments sit under Constitutional Court suspension.
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2022
Sweden treats puberty blockers and hormones for adolescents as research, not standard care.
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Restricted to research: Socialstyrelsen recommends puberty suppression and opposite-sex hormones for adolescents only in a research setting, not as standard care.
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2024–2025
Zürich says puberty blockers stay available with specialist assessment.
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NEK-CNE opinion 43/2024 describes puberty blockade as current practice; Zurich’s health directorate said access to puberty blockers is not being restricted.
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2016
Ukraine’s health-ministry Order 972 is the clinical protocol for gender dysphoria, including hormones.
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MoH Order 972 (15 September 2016) is the unified clinical protocol for gender dysphoria, including hormones. Child psychiatry is on the pathway.
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MedischBeperktScholenSchoolbeperking
2024
No statute bans this. Routine puberty blockers for under-18s stopped after Cass; a puberty blockers trial is ongoing.
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Restricted: no statute bans this care. NHS England stopped routine puberty blockers for under-18s after Cass; the PATHWAYS puberty blockers trial is ongoing.
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MedischBeperktScholenSchoolbeperking
2024
Holy See teaching in Dignitas Infinita rejects gender theory and sex-change interventions.
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Restricted: Dignitas Infinita §§55–60 rejects gender theory and sex-change interventions. Disorders of sex development (DSD) correction is named separately.
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