Sexual rights, gender and how to get help
You have a right to health, respect and care for your gender.
- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child guarantees your protection. Health services must respect your privacy.
- Sexual rights mean being informed, respected and free from coercion — whatever your orientation or gender identity.
- Trans and gender-diverse people have the right to hormone therapy in public health services, with prescription and medical follow-up.
- Follow-up can happen at a primary care outpatient clinic: the team checks your health, asks for exams and refers you when needed.
In practice
- Go to a health center and ask for care, including care about your gender.
- Ask for the primary care outpatient clinic or the trans health outpatient to talk about hormone therapy.
- Keep your appointments and exams.
- Confidentiality has limits when your life or safety is at risk.
Warning signs
- Never start hormones on your own or with someone else's prescription.
- Being refused respectful treatment is a rights violation — you can report it.
- Suffering any form of violence.
Where to get help
- Health center (primary care outpatient)
- Trans health outpatient
- Child Protection Council
- Public Defender's Office
- Disque 100
Sources
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- WHO — care for people with gender identity dysphoria
- UNICEF — inclusion of gender-diverse adolescents
- Endocrine Society — hormone therapy guidance