World Professional Association for Transgender Health

Short description: Organization

World Professional Association for Transgender Health

Abbreviation| WPATH
Formation| September 1979; 44 years ago (1979-09)
Type| NGO

Tax ID no.

| 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, United States of America
Products| Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People

Membership (2021)

| 2,700[3]

President

| Walter Pierre Bouman, MD, PhD[4]

President-Elect

| Marci Bowers, MD[4]

Secretary

| Asa Radix, MD, PhD, MPH[4]

Treasurer

| Loren Schechter, MD[4]

Board of directors

| Board Members-at-Large - (2018 - 2022); Tamara Adrian, JD; Jaimie Veale, PhD; (2020 – 2022); Javier Belinky, MD; Michael Marshall, MBBS, MRCPSYCH, CCT, PGDIP (LAW); (2020 – 2024); Christina Richards, PSYD; Stephen Rosenthal, MD; Sanjay Sharma, MBBS, MMS;

Christina Richards, PSYD(EPATH REPRESENTATIVE); Erica Anderson, PhD (USPATH REPRESENTATIVE); Greg Mak, MD, FRCP, MBBS (ASIAPATH REPRESENTATIVE); Jared Boot, MA (EX-OFFICIO MEMBER - WPATH STUDENT INITIATIVE REPRESENTATIVE)

[4]

Revenue (2016)

| $1,245,915[2]
Expenses (2016)| $1,144,284[2]

Employees (2016)

| 0[2]
Website| {{{1}}}

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 September 1979 by endocrinologist and sexologist Harry Benjamin, with the goal of creating an international community of professionals specializing in treating gender variance.[5][6]

## Contents

* 1 Organization
* 1.1 Membership
* 1.2 Regional organizations
* 2 Standards of Care
* 3 History
* 3.1 Presidents
* 4 References

## Organization

### Membership

Professionals include anyone working in disciplines such as medicine, psychology, law, social work, counseling, psychotherapy, family studies, sociology, anthropology, speech and voice therapy and sexology. Non-professionals may also join, paying the same membership fee, but without voting privileges.[7] The organization is funded by its membership and by donations and grants from non-commercial sources.[8]

### Regional organizations

WPATH is affiliated with several regional organizations, including the European Professional Association for Transgender Health, the United States Professional Association for Transgender Health and ASIAPATH.[9]

## Standards of Care

WPATH publishes the Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, educates professionals and consumers, sponsors scientific conferences, and provides ethical guidelines for professionals.[10] The first version of the Standards of Care were published in 1979.[11] Version 7 was published in 2011.[12] WPATH released Version 8 in 2022.[13]

## History

The organization was originally named after Harry Benjamin, one of the earliest physicians to work with transgender people.[14]

### Presidents

* Paul A. Walker, Ph.D., 1979–1981
* Donald R. Laub, M.D., 1981–1983
* Milton T. Edgerton, M.D., 1983–1985
* Ira B. Pauly, M.D., 1985–1987
* Aaron T. Bilowitz, M.D., 1987–1989
* Jan Walinder, M.D., 1989–1991
* Leah Schaefer, Ed.D., 1991–1995
* Friedmann Pfaefflin, M.D. 1995–1997
* Richard Green, J.D., 1997–1999
* Alice Webb, DHS, 1999
* Eli Coleman, Ph.D., 1999–2003
* Walter Meyer III, M.D., 2003–2005
* Stan Monstrey, M.D., 2005–2007
* Stephen Whittle, OBE, 2007–2009
* Walter O.Bockting, Ph.D., L.P., 2009–2011
* Lin Fraser, Ed.D., 2011–2013
* Jamison Green, Ph.D., 2013–2015
* Gail Knudson, M.D., FRCPC, 2016–2018
* Vin Tangpricha, M.D., Ph.D., 2018–2020
* Walter Pierre Bouman, M.D., Ph.D., 2020–2022
* Marci Bowers, M.D., 2022–2024

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "World Professional Association For Transgender Health ". Tax Exempt Organization Search. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax ". World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Guidestar. December 31, 2016.
3. ↑ Bowers, Marci (January 11, 2021). Dear WPATH Membership. WPATH. https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/Newsroom/Announcements/Marci Bowers 2020 year in review WPATH final.pdf?_t=1610373307. "WPATH has seen significant growth in its membership and programming over the past year, now with more than 2700 members and 49 countries represented."
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 ["https://www.wpath.org/about/EC-BOD ]". World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
5. ↑ "World Professional Association for Transgender Health" (in en). https://www.britannica.com/topic/World-Professional-Association-for-Transgender-Health.
6. ↑ "International Symposia". https://www.wpath.org/about/history/international-symposia.
7. ↑ "Membership Information". https://www.wpath.org/MembershipInfo.
8. ↑ "WPATH". https://www.wpath.org/.
9. ↑ "Regional Organizations". https://www.wpath.org/regional-organizations.
10. ↑ Wong, Gillian (June 17, 2009). China preps 1st guidelines for sex change surgery. The Guardian
11. ↑ Figures, K. (2007). Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association Is Founded. In Faderman, Lillian & Retter, Yolanda (Eds.). Great Events from History: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Events, 1848-2006 Salem Press, ISBN:978-1-58765-263-9
12. ↑ "Standards of Care, Version 7". https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc.
13. ↑ Coleman, E.; Radix, A. E.; Bouman, W. P.; Brown, G. R.; de Vries, A. L. C.; Deutsch, M. B.; Ettner, R.; Fraser, L. et al. (2022-08-19). "Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8" (in en). International Journal of Transgender Health 23 (sup1): S1–S259. doi:10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644. ISSN 2689-5269. PMID 36238954.
14. ↑ Allee, Kegan M. "Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association". In Encyclopedia of gender and society, Volume 1, p. 402. SAGE, ISBN:978-1-4129-0916-7

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