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MEDICC Review 2010; 12 (4)


Transgender health in Cuba: Evolving policy to impact practice

Gorry C

Idioma: Ingles.
Referencias bibliográficas: 19
Paginas: 5-9
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FRAGMENTO

Sin resumen.


REFERENCIAS (EN ESTE ARTÍCULO)

  1. Mayer KH, Bradford JB, Makadon HJ, Stall R, Goldhammer H, Landers S. Sexual and Gender Minority Health: What We Know and What Needs to Be Done. Am J Public Health. 2008 Jun;98(6):989–95.

  2. Sanchez NF, Sanchez JP, Danoff A. Health Care Utilization, Barriers to Care, and Hormone Usage among Male-to-Female Transgender Persons in New York City. Am J Public Health. 2009 Apr;99(4):713–9. See also: Lombardi E. Enhancing Transgender Health Care. Am J Public Health. 2001 Jun;91(6):869–72.

  3. Gay and Lesbian Medical Association and LGBT health experts. Healthy People 2010 Companion Document for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health. San Francisco, CA: Gay and Lesbian Medical Association; 2001.

  4. Commissioner for Human Rights. Human rights and gender identity. Council of Europe. Commissioner for Human Rights Issue Paper. Strasbourg, France: 29 July 2009.

  5. Between 1965 and 1968, homosexuals and others were sent to re-education work camps. In an August 2010 interview, Fidel Castro apologized for this discriminatory policy saying: “those were times of great injustice, a great injustice!... If anyone is responsible, it’s me.” Lira C. Soy el responsable de la persecución a homosexuales que hubo en Cuba: Fidel Castro. La Jornada (Mexico) [Internet]. 2010 Aug 31 [cited 2010 September 14]. Available from: www.jornada.unam.mx/2010/08/31/index.php?section=mundo&article=026e1 mun. For greater context of homosexuality in Cuba in the 1960s, see: Roque A. Fidel Castro, las UMAP y los perversos cubanólogos. Sitio de CENESEX y Diversidad Sexual. Available from: http://www.cenesex.sld.cu/webs/diversidad/ Fidel%20UMAP.html

  6. Castro M. La atención integral a personas transexuales en Cuba y su inclusión en las políticas sociales [PowerPoint presentation]. Havana; 2008.

  7. At that time, ‘gender disorder’ was the prevailing terminology and is still used in some countries; in 2010, Cuban specialists issued a statement rejecting classification of transsexuality as a disorder.

  8. Mariela Castro. La Asamblea Nacional discutirá la ‘ley gay’ en 2011. Diario de Cuba (Spain) [Internet]. 2010 Sep 1 [cited 2010 September 13]. Available from: http://diariodecuba.com/cuba/81-cuba/3053-mariela-castro-la-asambleanacional- discutira-la-ley-gay-en-2011.html

  9. Diversidad sexual…¿juzgar o entender? Juventud Rebelde [Internet]. 2008 May 11 [cited 2010 September 12]. Available from: http://www.juventudrebelde. cu/cuba/2008-05-11/diversidad-sexual-juzgar-o-entender/.

  10. Gorry C. The macho and super macho: gender perspective in Cuba. Special article for Programa Conjunto de Oxfam. Havana: Oxfam; 2007 Apr.

  11. These include the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Cattell 16PF Form C (self-analysis form), the Locus of Control test (Rotter), and more. For details see: “Trastorno de identidad de género y personas transexuales: Pautas de atención psicológica” by RM Rodríguez et al in Transexualidad en Cuba. Havana: CENESEX; 2008.

  12. Interview with Rosa Mayra Rodríguez, 16 Sep 2010.

  13. Castro M. Keynote speech. Primer Coloquio Internacional Trans-Identidades, Género, y Cultura. Havana; 2010 Jun 9.

  14. Rodríguez RM, García CT, Alfonso AC. “Trastorno de identidad de género y personas transexuales: Pautas de atención psicológica” in Transexualidad en Cuba. Havana: CENESEX; 2008.

  15. Acosta D. Wendy, una transsexual frente al espejo. IPS (Havana) [Internet]. 2009 Jan [cited 2010 September 18]. Available from: http://ipsnoticias.net/ nota.asp?idnews=94481. Spanish.

  16. Roque A. Challenges to the Cuban Family and Society [Internet]. Remarks given at the opening of the panel on the family and society during the observation of World Anti-Homophobia Day, 2010; 2010 May 16; Havana [cited 2010 September 28]. Available from: www.walterlippmann.com/docs2901.html

  17. Rodríguez RM, Alfonso AC, Díaz O, Rodríguez M. Reencuentro con la familia en el proceso grupal. Descripción de las sesiones del trabajo. In: Transexualidad en Cuba. Havana: CENESEX; 2008.

  18. Sociedad Cubana Multidisciplinaria para el Estudio de la Sexualidad. Declaración para la despatologización de la transexualidad en el V Congreso de Sexualidad [Internet]. 2010 Jan 22 [cited 2010 September 12] Havana; 2010. Available from: www.cenesex.sld.cu/webs/diversidad/declaracion_trans.html

  19. International Commission of Jurists and International Service for Human Rights. Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity [Internet]. 2007 [cited 2010 September 12]. Geneva; 2007. Available from: www.yogyakartaprinciples. org/principles_en.htm




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