Benjamin Hegarty, Alegra Wolter, Amalia Puri Handayani et al., "Healthcare practitioners as accomplices: a qualitative study of gender affirmation in a context of ambiguous regulation in Indonesia", BMC Medical Ethics, 26 (3), 2025.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-024-01134-9

Presentation

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health guidelines Standards of Care 8 draw on ethical arguments based on individual autonomy, to argue that healthcare and other professionals should be advocates for trans people. Such guidelines presume the presence of medical services for trans people and a degree of consensus on medical ethics. Very little is known, however, about the ethical challenges associated with both providing and accessing trans healthcare, including gender affirmation, in the Global South. In light of the challenges associated with medical and legal gender affirmation in Indonesia, we conducted a qualitative study to understand the views of trans people, healthcare providers, and legal practitioners.

Contributors : Benjamin Hegarty, Alegra Wolter, Amalia Puri Handayani, Kevin Marian, Jamee Newland, Dede Oetomo, Ignatius Praptoraharjo et Angela Kelly-Hanku

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