Gender identity clinic


A gender identity clinic is a type of specialist clinic providing services relating to transgender health care.

List of clinics and hospitals

Asia

Hong Kong

Netherlands

  • Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria at the University Medical Center of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Amsterdam
  • *The clinic opened in 1975 for adults only. From 1987 onwards, a practice dedicated to adolescents opened in Utrecht.:301 The children's clinic merged with the adult clinic in 2002, moving to Amsterdam.:301-302;
  • Radboud UMC in Nijmegen
  • *The clinic opened on March 2, 2020 for adolescents. From March 1, 2021, its practice was expanded to include care for adults.
  • UMCG in Groningen
  • *Adult practice already established when an endocrinological clinic for adolescents opened on April 1, 2024.

    United Kingdom

England
Since 2007, the University Hospital of Ghent has had a specialized department, the Center for Sexology and Gender Problems, that focuses on the care needs of adolescents and administers puberty blockers in accordance with international guidelines. Because the gender clinic at the University Hospital of Ghent was difficult to access for Walloon and Brussels care recipients due to insufficient capacity, the distance and the language barrier, the need was felt to open a gender clinic for transgender minors in Wallonia as well. CHU Liège opened this on 1 October 2019.

Finland

If an adolescent experiences gender dysphoria, they are treated at one of the university hospitals. A decision on whether puberty blockers should be administered to the adolescent after a diagnosis is made on an individual basis. If so, the adolescent is treated at Tampere University Hospital or Helsinki University Hospital.

North America

Canada