Living
09:42 13/01/2021
Nearly 770 transgender people are waiting for psychological or medical care related to their situation at the University Hospital UZ Gent, one of the specialist centres for providing this type of care in Belgium.
The dedicated UZ Gent service, which currently cares for 1,300 patients, cannot meet all the requests it is receiving from the transgender community. A total of 769 people are on the waiting list, including 561 adults and 208 children or adolescents. This means a waiting time of around 16 months between initial contact and the first appointment, which is extremely long, said Professor Guy T Sjoen, who is calling on other hospitals to set up specialist care units for transgender people.