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SUS reduces from 21 to 18 years the minimum age for sex change surgery

24/04/2013

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Ministry of Health will also go to offer exchange of female to male, which still was not done in public

The Ministry of Health will reduce from 21 to 18 the minimum age for a person to be subjected to surgery sex change by the Unified Health System (SUS) and 18 to 16 the age at onset of hormone treatment and psychological. The public will also offer a swap of female to male, which was not yet contemplated.

The ordinance, which will be published this week in the Official Gazette, will include the payment of surgeries for removal of breasts, uterus and ovaries, in addition to growth hormone therapy for the clitoris. The initial investment will be 390,000 per year. Surgery for penis construction (neofaloplastia) will not be paid, because the technique is still considered experimental by the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM). "Since 2008, we are one of the only countries in the world to offer this procedure to be universal and public. Jumping now is to increase access and expand the range of services that make surgery, and authorize monitoring in outpatient clinics," says José Eduardo Fogolin Steps, general coordinator of medium to high complexity of the Ministry of Health

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The technical group that took care of the revision of the ordinance came to the conclusion that the minimum age for the surgery sex change is 18. As the prerequisite is to have done at least two years of counseling, it was necessary to reduce the age 16 to start the process.

According to Alexandre Sadeeh, a psychiatrist and coordinator of Ambulatory Gender Identity Disorder, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculty of Medicine, USP, as the measure has not yet been published, the legal issue regarding the decision will still be assessed in hospital. "It is important to remember that only young people can be diagnosed by doctors undergoing treatment, and not just anyone who wanted to take take hormones. How the Child and Adolescent provides certain autonomy of the young in certain cases, it may not be mandatory parental permission for a young pass by hormonal treatment. however, seek to avoid any conflict situation, trying to educate parents that the treatment is the best thing to do for their children, "said the doctor to the site SEE.

As the Ministry of Health divides opinions. For medical Elaine Costa, who is also a psychiatrist at Clinic Identity Disorder USP, the measure is correct. "The patient is transferred to 18 years will continue to cross 21. Require that surgery can be done only at 21 will increase in three years his suffering.'s Totally unnecessary."

Caution - Already Diaulas Ribeiro, prosecutor Defense of Users of Health of the Federal District and a pioneer in the fight for the rights of transsexuals, criticizes the lowering of the age for starting treatment and surgery. For him, the government should be more cautious. "The 16 year old can be emancipated for civilian purposes. My fear is the index of repentance that can arise, since the diagnosis is usually closed older.'m Against starting hormone therapy at 16, because it is
a definitive procedure. If one wants to give up, no turning back, "he says. 



Source: See - Online

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