Trans people have the right to decentralized care in the country´s public health system, Mariela Castro stressed, while opening the 7th International Colloquium on Trans-Identities, Gender and Culture, which is being held at the CENESEX headquarters in the context of the 16th Cuban Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.

The meeting is the perfect setting for academic exchange that allows participants to socialize good practices and to think at the same time of those areas in which we must progress in order to promote policies that improve trans people´s conditions, and to enable their social integration in today´s Cuban reality.

We are deeply interested in trans children and teens issues, in addition to their decentralization of comprehensive health services nationwide, but such points must be seen centered on the person and never with a pathology standpoint.

We want all care to be provided by specialists trained in gender medicine, said Castro.

Among major issues to be discussed at the Colloquium, which will be held through coming Saturday under the slogan: ¨Love is Law¨ are epistemology and good clinical practices for trans people, gender discordance, psychoanalysis and systemic psychotherapy.

Other topics to be addressed will be intersexualities, transidentity, psychology of optimal experience, and trans childhood, among others.

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