The ''International Journal of Transgender Health'' (IJTH) is a quarterly

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covering research on

gender dysphoria and gender incongruence Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identitytheir personal sense of their own genderand their sex assigned at birth. The diagnostic label gender identity disorder (GID) was used until ...

, the medical treatment of

transgender A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through tr ...

individuals, social and legal acceptance of gender affirming surgery, and professional and public education on transgender health. It also publishes WPATH's Standards of Care, guest editorials, policy statements, letters to the editor, and review articles. The journal aims to inform a broad audience including policy makers, practitioners, and the general public. It is the official journal of the

World Professional Association for Transgender Health 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 ...

. The

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is Walter Pierre Bouman (National Centre for Transgender Health and the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK). The journal is published by

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Abstracting and indexing

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History

The journal was established in 1997 as the '' International Journal of Transgenderism'' (IJT), obtaining its current title in 2020, See paragraph 5. with and

Eli Coleman Eli Coleman is an American sexologist. He is the director of the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota, and a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. In 2007, he was appointed the first endowed Chair ...

as founding editors-in-chief.

Past editors

*Friedemann Pfäfflin (

University of Ulm Ulm University (german: Universität Ulm) is a public university in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer sci ...

) *Eli Coleman (University of Minnesota Medical School) *Richard Ekins (

University of Ulster sco, Ulstèr Universitie , image = Ulster University coat of arms.png , caption = , motto_lang = , mottoeng = , latin_name = Universitas Ulidiae , established = 1865 – Magee College 1953 - Magee Un ...

) *Dave King (

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

) *Walter O. Bockting (

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

)

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