Tag: Sundhedsstyrelsen
LGBT Denmark wants better health for transgender people
Amnesty has released the report on transgender treatment in Denmark. LGBT Denmark has contributed to the report and transgender stories in the report are consistent with our knowledge of the area.
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 The new draft guidance has been issued for consultation, maintain and in some cases reinforces the practice of lengthy, disempowering scenario where a care team with a monopoly in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.