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Guides to Gender-Affirming Care for Medical Professionals

Created for Medical Professionals

By the TPU

Last Updated: August 25, 2025

List of Guides to Gender-Affirming Care for Medical Professionals

The Sherbourne, Fenway, and Trans Care BC guides are some of the most popular in Canada. (The Sherbourne, Fenway, and Trans Care BC guides are some of the most popular in Canada)

Fenway Health’s Medical Care of Trans and Gender Diverse Adults, published in spring 2021
World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care Version 8, published in September 2022
Guidelines for Gender-Affirming Primary Care with Trans and Non-Binary Patients Edition 4 by Sherbourne Health, published in 2019
Gender-Affirming Care for Trans, Two-Spirit, and Gender Diverse Patients in BC : A Primary Care Toolkit by Trans Care BC, published March 2023

Guidelines for the Primary and Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary People by University of California San Francisco, published June 2016
A Clinician’s Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients. By Sand C. Chang, Anneliese A. Singh, and lore m. dickey. Published December 2018

A regularly updated international list of trans care guidelines guides is maintained by TransFem Science.

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