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Standards of care for "gender dysphoria" are defined.

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In October, a conference is held by the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association to promote their newly created Standards of Care. The standards provide guidance on everything from hormone therapy to surgical interventions, and everything in between. They will continue to be updated to reflect changing understandings of care in more recent decades after the association is renamed the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

However, the standards are critiqued by some members of the trans community based on their framework of pathologizing care and requiring trans people to "prove" their gender identity in order to receive treatment.