{"id":29134,"date":"2018-05-29T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T02:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=29134"},"modified":"2018-05-29T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T06:09:20","slug":"manilamed-opens-first-gender-diversity-center-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/05\/29\/manilamed-opens-first-gender-diversity-center-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"ManilaMed opens first \u2018Gender Diversity Center\u2019 in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a step forward to create gender inclusive communities in the country, ManilaMed opens the first ever Gender Diversity Center in the Philippines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In its historic grand launch last May 25, ManilaMed proudly opened the Gender Diversity Center, which seeks to offer valuable services supervised by trusted medical professionals in their respective fields.<\/p>\n

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Invited guests during the GDC launch\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Distinguished guests, speakers, and LGBT acceptance advocates<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

According to ManilaMed\u2019s, the goal in establishing the center is to \u201chelp each person work out his or her own gender identity, assess his or her biological sex; allow him or her to choose his or her sexual preference, and help them transition to that gender role.\u201d<\/p>\n

Services they provide include Psychosexual Evaluation and Exploratory Counseling, Family Counseling, Psychiatric Assessment, Puberty Suppression Therapy, Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy, Infectious Disease Consultation, Gender Re-Assignment Surgery, Legal Status Transitioning, and Pastoral Service.<\/p>\n

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ManilaMed also seeks to go beyond the clinical and medical as they cater a more \u201ccomprehensive and holistic approach. \u201c It involves not just treating a person, but journeying with the person, and also the person\u2019s family and loved ones.\u201d \u00a0The Diversity Center will also hold psychological services, hormone therapy, and eventually, surgical management.<\/p>\n

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To facilitate these services, the center will have a multi-disciplinary team which includes an adolescent pediatrician, psychologist, psychiatrist, endocrinologist, surgeon, reconstructive surgeon, urologist, and family therapist.<\/p>\n

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With the existence of a facility that serves the Filipino LGBT community, the Gender Diversity Center can now be of help by offering affordable services, while handling each case with utmost discretion, respect, and compassion.<\/p>\n

For inquiries about the Gender Diversity Center, you may call 523-8131 to 65 loc. 3008.<\/p>\n

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With information from Manila Med\u2019s press release; images courtesy of ManilaMed<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gender Diversity Center will offer the most comprehensive spectrum of medical, and psychological services to those in the LGBT community of all ages and inclinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6172,6169,6167,6171,6168,6170],"class_list":["post-29134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-launching-and-opening","tag-gender-center-philippines","tag-gender-diversity-center","tag-gender-diversity-center-manila-med","tag-gender-hospital","tag-manilamed","tag-manilamed-hospital"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/05\/DSC_0146-e1527573718135.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29145,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29134\/revisions\/29145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}