Tag: Denmark
New booklet encourage therapists to resist against the Health Protection Agency (Sundhedsstyrelsen) in Denmark
LGBT Denmark is very concerned at the development of transgender people access to treatment, as the Denmark Board of Health (Sundhedsstyrelsen) is currently working on a draft. The new draft guidance has been issued for consultation, maintain and in some cases reinforces the practice of lengthy, disempowering scenario where a care team with a monopoly in Denmark can refuse to treat patients without decision can be appealed.
Danish Board of Health risk human life by refusing transgender treatment in private clinics
In the wake of the law on legal sex change, which came into force on 1 September 2014, the Danish Board of Health (Sundhedsstyrelsen) issued guidelines which prohibits private clinics to offer transgender hormone therapy, partly gathers all processing of trans people in Sexology Clinic in the hands of a “multi-disciplinary treatment team “, and also prevents the treatment of trans people, unless they have completed 6 months of talk therapy.
Danish Conservative leader: «I’m gay, so what?»
Søren Pape Poulsen came out as homosexual and said he was surprised that it should be an issue in modern day Denmark.
This year’s official Copenhagen Pride magazine is out
This year’s official Pride magazine, which Homotropolis again this year has made in collaboration with Copenhagen Pride, are out and can be picked up at Copenhagen LGBT places right now.
Same-sex Danish couple finalise first overseas adoption
A same-sex Danish couple have become the first people to adopt a child from abroad since the Scandinavian country legalised the practice in 2010.
Copenhagen gets LGBT nursing home
Copenhagen is planning the creation of Denmark’s first retirement home for LGBT persons from 2015.