Britain - GIRES Awards and Travel Bursary 2007

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GIRES Awards and Travel Bursary 2007

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GIRES AWARDS 2007

One of GIRES' main current aims is to improve the medical care 

offered to transsexual adolescents, particularly in the UK, where 

treatment is more restrictive than is allowed in the WPATH Standards 

of Care.  Four enlightened and highly informative articles on this 

topic have been written by some of the medical professionals with 

whom GIRES has been working to improve practice.  GIRES has 

recognised the value of their work by making awards to:

• Professor dr Henriette A Delemarre-van de Waal and Professor dr 

Peggy T Cohen-Kettenis for their article "Clinical Management of 

Gender Identity Disorder in Adolescents: A protocol on psychological 

and paediatric endocrinology aspects"; published in the European 

Journal of Endocrinology

• Dr Christopher P Houk and Professor Peter A Lee for their article 

"The Diagnosis and Care of Transsexual Children and Adolescents: A 

Paediatric Endocrinologists' Perspective"; published in the Journal 

of Paediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism.

• Dr Norman P Spack for his article "Transgenderism"; published in 

the Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Journal.

• Dr Simona Giordano: for her article "Gender Atypical Organisation 

in Children and Adolescents: Ethico-Legal Issues and a Proposal for 

New Guidelines"; to be published in the International Journal of 

Children's Rights

TRAVEL BURSARY

For many years, Professor Stephen Whittle has ably championed the 

trans community.  He has been elected as President of WPATH.  In 

recognition of his excellent work and to mark his presidency, GIRES 

awarded him a bursary to cover his cost of attending the WPATH 

symposium.

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