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World Progress · 2024

Taiwan

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Taiwan’s health ministry LGBT+ care guide describes hormones and surgery after psychiatric assessment.

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Taiwan’s health ministry published a friendly-care guide.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare Department of Medical Affairs LGBT+民眾醫療照護參考指引 (issued 13 December 2024, 衛部醫字第 1131671660 號) tells facilities how to build a “friendly” environment and how staff should respond. In the definitions, hormone treatment and surgery sit after a series of psychiatric assessments and referral. The same circular folds in the 2018 principles on minors with DSD (disorders of sex development) — avoid premature non-emergency irreversible sex surgery.

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