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January 2004, Vol 94, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 6
© 2004 American Public Health Association

LETTER

ON CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND SCIENTIFIC RIGOR IN TRANSGENDER TREATMENT

Robin M. Mathy, MSW, MS, MA

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Robin M. Mathy, MSW, MA, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JA (e-mail: robin.mathy@kellogg.ox.ac.uk).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Fee et al. argue that "[L]egal requirements for [sex reassignment surgery] as a condition of changing one’s gender need to be carefully reexamined."1 Readers have a right to assume that authors have some authoritative knowledge about the subject about which they are writing.2 However, Fee et al. (2 historians and a contractor) appear to lack the clinical credentials to make policy recommendations about transgender care. Further, their factual data are scientifically invalid and inadequate.

No one ever suggested that surgical sex reassignment is, in the words of Fee et al., a "one size fits all" solution or the "gold standard" . . . [Full Text]






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