Can poor academic staff response show an apparent lack of interest in seeing the challenge of transsexualism, its causation and the treatment?
| Author | Affiliation |
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Tautavičiūtė, Gretė Beatričė | |
| Date |
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2022-10-07 |
Pranešimų santraukos
Juratė Pečeliūnienė davus dvi prieskyras: Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine, the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Pharmacy Centre; Vilnius University, the Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Internal Diseases, Family Medicine and Oncology, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Background and objectives. A procedure for the diagnosis and treatment of transsexualism was recently approved in Lithuania. The aim of the study was to evaluate Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine (VU MF) academic staff response rate and attitudes toward transsexual causation, the need of the treatment, including sex hormonal treatment and surgery. Material (patients) and research method used. The pilot study was performed. The electronic form of several questions - Do you consider transsexualism to be a disease that can be treated?; Are you of the opinion that transsexual person should have the opportunity to be treated with the sex hormones of the opposite sex?; Are you of the opinion that transsexual person should have the opportunity to undergo surgical operation of the genitals?; What do you think it is that makes a person transsexual? - was submitted to the VU MF intranet with the consent of the head of the Communications department. It was available to every teaching VU MF personnel e-user. The access was active from March 9th to March 31st, 2022. Fundings/results in sufficient details to support conclusion. No responses were received in one week. In order to better access the respondents, questions were shared via VU MF's social network "stories", and only few responses were received. [...].