Revista de SIDA e investigación clínica

Proceedings, Conclusion and Consequences from the Norwegian Expert Group on Transgender Health and Legal Rights

Abstract

Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad

Issued by the Ministry of Health and care, the directorate of health organized an expert group that through all 2014 and some months into 2015 worked on issues of legal right to gender and on the health services to individuals within the gender incongruent group in Norway. The background was expressed dissatisfaction with the state of affairs expressed both from organizations for gender incongruent, from the legal and health professions and form human rights organizations. The report delivered from the expert group in April 2015 confirms the needs for improvement on many levels both in the legal and in the health systems of Norway. The expert group’s conclusions are in very short: Self-determined gender and health-care organized by the principle of lowest effective level of care and the smallest effective dose of treatment on all levels. The right to self-determined gender down to the age of six with caretakers’ approval was issued July first 2016. The health part of the report is as of yet not implemented.