Back World Professional Association for Transgender Health Czech Asociación Profesional Mundial para la Salud Transgénero Spanish Association professionnelle mondiale pour la santé des personnes transgenres French World Professional Association for Transgender Health Galician World Professional Association for Transgender Health ID വേൾഡ് പ്രൊഫഷണൽ അസോസിയേഷൻ ഫോർ ട്രാൻസ്ജെൻഡർ ഹെൽത്ത് Malayalam World Professional Association for Transgender Health Dutch World Professional Association for Transgender Health Portuguese Всемирная профессиональная ассоциация по здоровью трансгендерных людей Russian Svetovno strokovno združenje za transspolno zdravje Slovenian
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| Abbreviation | WPATH |
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| Formation | September 1979 |
| Type | NGO |
| 94-2675140[1] | |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3)[1] |
| Purpose | To promote evidence-based care, education, research, advocacy, public policy, and respect in transgender health.[2] |
| Headquarters | East Dundee, Illinois, U.S. |
| Products | Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People |
Membership (2021) | 2,700[3] |
| Walter Pierre Bouman[4] | |
| Marci Bowers[4] | |
| Asa Radix[4] | |
| Loren Schechter[4] | |
Revenue (2016) | $1,245,915[2] |
| Expenses (2016) | $1,144,284[2] |
Employees (2016) | 0[2] |
| Website | www |
Formerly called | Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association |
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), formerly the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA), is a professional organization devoted to the understanding and treatment of gender identity and gender dysphoria, and creating standardized treatment for transgender and gender variant people. WPATH was founded in 1979 and named HBIGDA in honor of Harry Benjamin during a period where there was no clinical consensus on how and when to provide gender-affirming care.
WPATH is mostly known for the Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People (SOC). Early versions of the SOC mandated strict gatekeeping of transition by psychologists and psychiatrists and framed transgender identity as a mental illness. Beginning in approximately 2010, WPATH began publicly advocating the depsychopathologization of transgender identities and the 7th and 8th versions of the SOC took an approach that was more evidence-based.
- ^ a b "World Professional Association For Transgender Health Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine". Tax Exempt Organization Search. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax Archived 2022-06-18 at the Wayback Machine". World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Guidestar. December 31, 2016.
- ^ Bowers, Marci (January 11, 2021). Dear WPATH Membership (PDF). WPATH. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 14, 2023. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
WPATH has seen significant growth in its membership and programming over the past year, now with more than 2700 members and 49 countries represented.
- ^ a b c d "Executive Committee and Board of Directors". World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Archived from the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved March 3, 2021.