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Welcome


ICATH is a collaboration of gender confirming providers, including therapists and medical professionals.

  • The ICATH model reflects the basic human right to self-actualization

  • ICATH promotes a departure from the system that uses Gender Identity Disorder Diagnosis and Gender Dysphoria as a means for accessing gender confirming health care.

  • ICATH is not an institution, an agency or an organization. ICATH is a trans-affirmative  Standard of Care.

In the traditional Standards of Care model:
  • Trans people are required to attend therapy and to spend time living as the "opposite gender" for as long as one to two years.
 
  • Those whose gender identity is non-binary or fluid are not visible in this model and they must either adopt a narrative that is not their own, or be excluded from gender-confirming healthcare.
 
  • Trans people are forced to engage with a variety of gatekeepers who may or may not be competent to serve them.
The ICATH model :

  • Believes that trans people shouldn't have to go to therapy to get the gender confirming health care they want. No one should have to go to therapy to prove their true gender, or to get permission to change their bodies.

  • Trans people should be able to decide what is best for themselves and their bodies, and when.

  • Therapy should be an option rather than a requirement for individuals accessing gender confirming health care.
News Flash!



  • Please see Shay O'Reilly's excellent article in Campus Progress, on Informed Consent for Access to gender confirming healthcare.  ICATH Providers:  A. Canelli and Talcott Broadhead both contributed to the piece.

  • Have a listen to : Gendercast, Episode 23: Informed Consent for Access to Trans Health (ICATH), Interview with Calvin Burnap and A. Canelli.


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