Medical Professional Associations that Support Gender Affirming Care
An abridged compilation
One of the most common questions I get is: "Which medical organizations SPECIFICALLY support transgender healthcare?" (rephrased more politely by me)
Well... All of them.
That sounds like hyperbole, but I mean that literally. There is not a single legitimate professional medical organization ON THIS PLANET that isn't 100% behind the clear evidence showing that individualized trans care is far and away the most effective course of action with the best outcomes.
But apparently that doesn't answer the question in a satisfactory way; the askers often want names of the organizations. Rather than list every single medical association on Earth, I've limited this to a collection of the groups that have published statements declaring support for Gender Affirming Care.
There are a lot of lists out there, and many of them have missing or repeated entries, so I've compiled all I could find into single document.
Here you go:
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
American Academy of Dermatology
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Nursing
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Physician Assistants
American Association of Clinical Endocrinology
American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry
American College Health Association
American College of Nurse-Midwives
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American College of Physicians
American Counseling Association
American Heart Association
American Medical Association
American Nurses Association
American Medical Student Association
American Osteopathic Association
American Psychiatric Association
American Psychological Association
American Public Health Association
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
American Urological Association
Endocrine Society
Federation of Pediatric Organizations
French Society of Pediatric Endocrinology
GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality
The Journal of the American Medical Association
National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health
National Association of Social Workers
National Commission on Correctional Healthcare
Ohio Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Endocrine Society
Pediatrics (Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics ) and Seattle Children’s Hospital
Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
Texas Medical Association
Texas Pediatric Society
United States Professional Association for Transgender Health (USPATH)
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Medical Association
World Professional Association for Transgender Health
The fact of the matter is that no number is ever enough for pseudoscience conspiracy types. As the saying goes, you can't reason a person out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
But at least you can drop this list to shut down one of the most frequent bad-faith queries out there. I hope you find it useful.