Statement on the trans-specific healthcare ban in Georgia EPATH expresses deep concern over the Georgian Parliament's recent adoption of the "On Family Values and Protection of Minors" legislative package in October 2024. This legislation severely...

WPATH GEI Course Series: February 18-20 (2025), Marbella, Spain Join WPATH GEI in Spain - Register Today! This live WPATH GEI Course Series will be fully bilingual (Spanish & English). These courses are offered by WPATH to train healthcare providers...

Become an EPATH-only Member! EPATH welcomes its members. Choose the membership offer that suits your need. EPATH encourages but not obliges our members to apply for combined WPATH/EPATH membership to benefit from both societies. Membership is...

Save the date: 6th EPATH Conference We are excited to announce that the 6th EPATH conference is scheduled for September 4th to 6th, 2025! The conference will be held in Hamburg, Germany. This event serves as a vital platform for experts, researchers, and...

EPATH's Response to the Cass Review on Transgender Care for Adolescents The final Cass review regarding transgender care for adolescents in the UK published last month has received much media attention. The EPATH board took some time to read the 400 page...

Help us improve research on genital gender surgery! The GenderCOS study invites you to participate if you have professional experience or if you have had genital gender surgery. The GenderCOS study aims to improve research on genital gender surgery by determining...

Are you interested in attending our summer school? Submit your abstract now! There are still a few spots left to participate in the summer school. Deadline: January 1st, 2024. Apply here: https://forms.gle/niD46VSGw7T16BUC8 We have built an exciting...

WPATH and EPATH Response to NHS England’ (UK) Puberty blocker policy NHS England wanted to hear what patients, parents and carers, clinicians, providers and other interested parties think about the proposed interim clinical policy . The policy proposition is that...

EPATH's second summer school has opened their doors to apply! Are you interested in attending our summer school? Submit your abstract now! Click here to apply. Our summer school 'Transgender Health: Interdisciplinary Approaches', deals with the multidisciplinary...

Date: 18 October 2023 Time: 10:00-17:00 CEST (tbc) Location: Online Event (Zoom) Registration form Link to programmeBackground As part of the ongoing Council of Europe thematic review on 'Advancing Healthcare Access for LGBTI people in Europe', The Council cordially...

EPATH organises their 2nd Summer School from July 1 – July 5, 2024, at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. The Summer School deals with the multidisciplinary approaches to the social, mental and physical well-being of transgender and gender diverse persons. Although the...

From April 26th - 28th 2023 the 5th EPATH conference took place in Killarney, where we re-connected, met up with old and new friends, and had extremely well prepared and up to date keynote lectures. However, we regret to inform you that our code of conduct has been...

Dear colleagues, It is my great pleasure as EPATH’s president to welcome you to the 5th EPATH meeting, on behalf of the EPATH Board and the Scientific Committee. It has been 2 years since we’ve met digitally or in person, in Stockholm Sweden at our...

Strengthen Your Bones and Mind Fun Run It's time for the 1st EPATH Fun Run!    When: Wednesday April 26th, 18:30 Where: begins at the entrance of the Lake Hotel (500m from the Gleneagle Hotel) (Google Maps) Cost: €15 Why a 5K Fun Run? We want...

Meet your candidates! The current EPATH board is very pleased to present to its members the nominated candidates who have applied to become a board member. We have 12 candidates from several European countries and professions, and invite our...

Are you ready for EPATH 2023? Our final programme is taking shape and it is looking great! The EPATH 2023 conference will feature 240 presentations, of which: 126 oral presentations 43 poster presentations 20 round tables 11 keynote presentations 10 state-of-the-art...

Last week to apply to become an EPATH board member! There is a vacancy for 2 Directors-at-Large to strenghten the EPATH board. If you are interested, make sure to complete the following steps before 28 February 2023: Use the application form to send in you candidacy...

Following the publication of the interim report of the Cass Review of gender identity services for children and young people in England in March 2022, NHS England has now issued an interim service specification for “Phase 1” services pending establishment of new...

We have extended our abstract submission deadline to November 14. For more information about the call for abstracts, please visit https://epath.eu/2023-conference/call-for-abstracts/ #epath2023 #killarney #ireland #AbstractSubmission #CallForAbstracts...

As professionals involved in provision of healthcare to transgender people, EPATH recognizes the crucial importance, for the purposes of transgender people's health and well-being, of their being able to obtain key documents that reflect their gender identity. In this...

EPATH cordially invites researchers and professionals in the field of transgender health to submit abstracts for the upcoming 5th EPATH conference. EPATH accepts submissions for Oral and Poster presentations, Round Tables and State-of-the-Art mini-symposia. Please...

For its fifth upcoming conference, EPATH launches a call for Scientific Committee members to be involved in the abstract reviewing process. As a member of the Scientific Committee of a specific stream within the conference, you will be reviewing a number of abstracts,...

The call for organisations interested in hosting the next EPATH conference in 2025 is open (deadline: October 10). For more information see: https://epath.eu/hosting-epath-2025/ or contact contact@epath.eu. Where will the 2025 conference take place? When more than one...

During our first Summer School on Transgender Health (June 29th – July 1st, 2022, in Ghent, Belgium), EPATH organizes together with the Transgender Infopunt and with the kind support of Ghent city Council, a public event entitled: “Transgender health care from a human...

We have been contacted that some of you would still like to apply for the summer school (June 28 - July 1). This is why we are extending the deadline for enrollment to our summer school until Sunday May 8 (23:30 CEST)! Are you a PhD student, health care professional,...

The EPATH board wants to express their concern about the Russian military aggression in Ukraine. We know that all people in Ukraine and surrounding countries are and will be deeply affected by the consequences of the war. Trans and gender diverse people are at...

This summer, EPATH board members Guy T'Sjoen and Annelou de Vries, as well as our conference host Attila Fazekas, have given their time and trust for the making of a documentary 'Uppdrag granskning" on transgender youth prepared by Carolina Jemsby. We wish to inform...

EPATH will host a first Summer School on Transgender Health, from June 29 – July 1, 2022, in Ghent, Belgium. Although the scientific attention for transgender health has been booming in recent decade, the scientific curricula in the involved disciplines lack dedicated...

In this TDOR week we remember those we've lost and encourage others to keep up in our strive for human rights and dignity for all! In a new report by TGEU, between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2021, the Trans Murder Monitoring registered 375 reports of trans and...

Virology Education is proud to announce the 3rd edition of the International Workshop on HIV & Transgender People, which will be held on 9-10 December 2021 as a virtual conference (see more information here). This workshop is a much-needed initiative to gather...

Last week 430 participants met on site and online for the 4th EPATH conference. Did you miss the conference, but you would still like to take part? You can still register at our Ex Ordo platform! The platform gives access to the scientific programme until 60 days...

The EPATH (local) Organising Committee is very pleased to announce that the social event of the 4th EPATH Hybrid Conference in Gothenburg will take place this year! Therefore, all sympathisants are invited to fill in the form below to register for the...

The current EPATH board is very pleased to present to its members the nominated candidates who have applied to become a board member. We have 9 candidates from several European countries and professions, and invite our members to read their background and vision for...

The 4th EPATH Conference is approaching, and before you might go on holiday, here is a quick reminder of what you need to know or need to do: Have you registered yet? Yes? Great! When you have registered for an online ticket, it is still possible to...

The 4th EPATH conference  will take a hybrid format this year for the first time, due to the pandemic situation. This means we need your help in ensuring a smooth online happening! The Organising Committee is looking for 20 volunteers who are willing to act as Stage...

We would like to inform you about the latest travel regulations concerning COVID-19: Travelling between EEA countries: From the 1st of July you can travel freely again between EEA countries (EU member states + Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway) using the EU Digital...

We are happy to announce that we will be able to allow up to 228 participants on site for our next EPATH conference in Gothenburg, Sweden (August 11-13). The new Swedish COVID-19 regulations state that conferences are not defined as public events, as we only allow...

WPATH is launching an all-new virtual Journal Club! This online meeting format, featuring articles from the International Journal of Transgender Health (IJTH), will allow participants the opportunity to delve further into transgender health research topics and ask...

In December 2020, the board of several professional associations for transgender health launched a joint statement regarding medical affirming treatment including puberty blockers for transgender adolescents, as a response to the Bell v. Tavistock Judgment in the...

The registration for the 4th EPATH conference opens at April 1st 2021 at 12:00 CEST sharp! You can already set up your account if you don't have a previous one. You can attend our hybrid  conference in two ways: on site in Gothenburg, Sweden, or online only. Based...

Upon popular demand, we're happy to announce that the deadline for abstract submission is postponed one last time to April 14th. Please find all information on how to submit here.

We are happy to give more information about the upcoming 4th EPATH conference. The board has decided, after careful examination of all pros and cons, to organise a hybrid conference. We believe in these circumstances, we need to do our uttermost best to offer you a...

On December 1, 2020, the London High Court ruled (Bell v. Tavistock) that children are highly unlikely to be able to consent to taking puberty blockers. The board of directors of WPATH, EPATH, USPATH, AsiaPATH, CPATH, AusPATH and PATHA all strongly disagree with the...

EPATH cordially invites researchers and professionals in the field of transgender health to submit an abstract for its fourth conference. The fourth edition of the successful EPATH conference will again centre around the broad spectrum of transgender health. The theme...

EPATH congratulates all WPATH award recipients who received an award during the WPATH 2020 Scientific Symposium today, and especially our EPATH board members Griet De Cuypere, who received the WPATH Harry Benjamin Lifetime Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award,...

The EPATH board has decided to postpone the 4th EPATH conference to 11-13 August 2021 due to the current COVID-19 circumstances. As the possibility for networking and interaction are important aspects of the EPATH conferences, the EPATH board prefers hosting a...

USPATH, WPATH and EPATH stand in solidarity with those protesting the violent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, Tony McDade, and many other people of color who lost their lives needlessly from police violence. These names are just a few among countless...

The European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) and the European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM) have written a joint letter to the President of the Hungarian Republic, to express our serious concerns regarding the proposed amendments in the...

EPATH supports this survey on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on trans health and health care, and invites all trans people to take part in this study. The survey is dedicated to invest how trans people are personally affected by the situation around COVID-19 and...