WPATH Global Education Initiative

Foundations in Transgender Health is intended for providers of all experience levels. This 2-day training course for healthcare professionals from all specialties in the implementation of the Standards of Care focuses on the importance of an interdisciplinary care team approach and cross specialty foundational knowledge. What all providers should know about gender development, mental health considerations, legal, policy and ethical issues, primary care and preventative health, puberty blockers and hormonal treatment, surgical overviews and much more. Includes interactive multi-disciplinary case studies.

Advanced Medical Treatment is a full-day training that focuses on advanced hormonal treatment and complications, co-occurring conditions, general health, ongoing primary care and aging. A complicated case studies discussion helps to further understand care and treatment among multiple medical specialties.

Advanced Mental Health is a full-day training that dives into advanced psychotherapy topics across the lifespan, navigating therapy issues like counter transference, children of transgender people, re-identification, autism, trauma and a complicated cases panel.

Workshops are highly specialized 4-8-hour interactive and/or case-based sessions that focus on specific areas of interest. Workshops are part of our advanced track and intended for those who have completed the Foundations in Transgender Health course.

Topics include:

• Working with Children and Adolescents
• Planning and Documenting for Medical Transition
• Ethical Considerations
• Peri and Post-Operative Surgical Care
• Voice and Communication