GPP /CATS - Gender Identity Clinic

Range of Services
The Gender Identity Clinic offers consultations, support and time-limited counselling to anyone who wishes to explore issues related to their cross-dressing or any degree of transgendered expression.

This includes those who wish to manage their cross-gender feelings and the expression of those feelings while remaining in their original gender role as well as those questioning their level of adaptation to the cross-dressing or transgendered behaviour.

The Gender Clinic provides counselling to families and consultation to employers of clinic clients provided we have your signed consent. Otherwise all consultations are strictly confidential. The clinic also offers weekly group support for those who have already been seen for consultation and received this recommendation.

The Consultation Process
In order for you to be seen for consultation, the clinic requires a referral letter from a physician. This may be your family doctor, psychiatrist or any other licensed physician. Once we receive this referral letter we will contact you or the referral source, whichever you prefer, and arrange an appointment time.

You will have the opportunity of meeting with two or three clinicians and, where indicated, an endocrinologist. We will make every attempt to fit this into a single day, however, where an appointment with the endocrinologist is indicated this is not always possible. Approximately six weeks later we will advise you of our recommendations. Once you receive the recommendations, you are encouraged to contact the clinic to discuss these further, either by telephone or in person.

Other links:

• http://www.annelawrence.com/
• http://www.symposion.com/ijt/
• http://www.hbigda.org/
• http://www.ifge.org/
• http://www.themenace.net

References:  Articles on Gender Reorientation and Sex Reassignment Surgery Follow-Up

• Blanchard, R., & Steiner, B. W. (1983). Gender reorientation, psychological adjustment, and involvement with female partners in female-to-male transsexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 12, 149-157.
• Blanchard, R., Clemmensen, L. H., & Steiner, B. W. (1983). Gender reorientation and psychosocial adjustment in male-to-female transsexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 12, 503-509.
• Blanchard, R. (1985). Gender dysphoria and gender reorientation. In B. W. Steiner (Ed.), Gender dysphoria: Development, research, management (pp. 365-392). New York: Plenum Press.
• Blanchard, R., Steiner, B. W., & Clemmensen, L. H. (1985). Gender dysphoria, gender reorientation, and the clinical management of transsexualism. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 53, 295-304.
• Blanchard, R., Legault, S., & Lindsay, W. R. N. (1987). Vaginoplasty outcome in male-to-female transsexuals. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 13, 265-275.
• Blanchard, R., Steiner, B. W., Clemmensen, L. H., & Dickey, R. (1989). Prediction of regrets in postoperative transsexuals. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 34, 43-45.
• Blanchard, R., & Sheridan, P. M. (1990). Gender reorientation and psychosocial adjustment. In R. Blanchard & B. W. Steiner (Eds.), Clinical management of gender identity disorders in children and adults (pp. 159-189). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

For further information, please contact:

• Coordinator: Maxine Petersen
  (416) 535-8501, ext. 4077
  Fax (416) 979-6965
  email: maxine_petersen@camh.net
• Secretary:
  (416) 535-8501, ext. 6833
  Fax (416) 979-6965
• (A) Manager: Shayla Gutzin
  (416) 535-8501, ext 4096

 

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