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Dutch guidelines
Summary
Overview of Dutch guidelines, standards and policy documents on transgender care. See /protocol/current-status-netherlands/ for a discussion of current clinical practice in the Netherlands.
Official Dutch guidelines and standards
- Quality Standard Transgender Care Somatic — Federation of Medical Specialists, 2018, revised 2023.
- Quality Standard Psychological Transgender Care — Netherlands Institute of Psychologists, 2023.
- Quality Standard Breast Care — Dutch Society for Plastic Surgery, transgender surgery section.
- Position of the Dutch Society for Endocrinology — most recent version 2023.
Policy documents and parliamentary papers
- Letter to Parliament VWS — State of transgender care, June 2023 (translation by editors).
- ZonMw — Research Programme Transgender Care 2022–2027 (translation by editors).
- National Health Care Institute — Positions on transgender care in the basic package (translation by editors).
See also
- People register — de Vries, Steensma, van der Loos.
- International comparison — NL alongside other countries.
- Timeline — guideline development in chronological context.
- Current status Netherlands — discussion of clinical practice in NL.
- Response VUmc / Amsterdam UMC — institutional response to criticism.
- Changes over time — how the guidelines have been amended.
- Guidelines international — international context.
- Original publications — scientific basis.
- FAQ · Glossary · For clinicians.