Last Change:

08/14/2025

Comprehensive Care for Transgender Persons for the Harmonization of the Health Services Network

Original names of the law: Atención integral de personas trans para la hormonización en la red de servicios de salud

Year: 2018

Type: Domestic policy

Rights Category: Health

Link to external source: http://conasida.go.cr/docman/conasida/normativas-y-lineamientos/28-protocolo-hormonizacion-personas-trans/file
Description

Protocol that seeks to provide assessment tools and psychosocial support to trans people to support the process of subjectivity and reaffirmation of their gender identity as well as to prescribe hormone therapy and adherence to pharmacoendocrinological treatment. 

Related questions
Question Right Category
Do domestic laws and policies provide access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services for forcibly displaced and stateless persons?  Health
Selected provisions
X. Functions according to level of care

Primer nivel de atención:
Este nivel se activa sólo si la persona trans solicita consulta por este motivo, por lo que
REDES debe asignar la cita con medicina general.
Segundo Nivel: Realiza evaluación, abordaje psicoemocional y psiquiátrico.
Realiza evaluación endocrinológica e inicia Terapia Farmacologica.
Tercer Nivel: Realiza evaluación, abordaje psicoemocional y psiquiátrico.
Realiza evaluación endocrinológica e inicia Terapia Farmacologica.