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A gender identity clinic is a type of specialist clinic providing services relating to transgender health care.

List of clinics and hospitals

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2022)

Asia

Hong Kong

Gender Identity Clinic at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Shatin, New Territories

Europe

Belgium

Center for Sexology and Gender Problems at Ghent University Hospital in Ghent.

Netherlands

Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria at the University Medical Center of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Amsterdam.
- The clinic opened in 1975 for adults only. From 1987 onwards, a practice dedicated to adolescents opened in Utrecht. The children's clinic merged with the adult clinic in 2002, moving to Amsterdam.
Radboud UMC in Nijmegen.
- The clinic opened on March 2, 2020 for adolescents. From March 1, 2021, its practice was expanded to include care for adults.
UMCG in Groningen.
- Adult practice already established when an endocrinological clinic for adolescents opened on April 1, 2024 (diagnosis and psychological support is offered by UMCG partners).

United Kingdom

England

NHS Gender Identity Development Service of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London.

Northern Ireland

Regional Gender Identity Service, Brackenburn Clinic, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust in Belfast
Knowing Our Identity, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust in Belfast

Scotland

Chalmers Gender Identity Clinic, NHS Lothian at Chalmers Hospital in Edinburgh.
Sandyford Gender Identity Clinic, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in Glasgow.
Grampian Gender Identity Clinic, NHS Grampian at Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen.
Highlands Gender Identity Clinic, NHS Highland at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.

Wales

Welsh Gender Service, St David's Hospital in Cardiff.

North America

Canada

Gender Identity Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.
Gender Identity Clinic at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta.

United States

Center of Excellence for Transgender Health of the University of California, San Francisco in San Francisco.
Gender Management Service (GeMS) of Boston Children's Hospital in Boston.
Transgender Health Program of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
GenderCare Center at the Boston Medical Center in Boston.
Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery of Mount Sinai in New York City.

Notes

"The first specialized gender identity clinic for children and adolescents in the Netherlands opened its doors at the Utrecht University Medical Center in 1987. (...) In 2002, the clinic moved to the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam and is now part of the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria (Cohen-Kettenis & de Vries, 2012, pp. 301-302)."

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