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Dear Colleagues, Several additions have been made to the GIRES website: > The new booklet that GIRES produced for the British Departmentment of Health (DH): "Guidance for GPs, clinicians and health professionals on the care of gender variant people", is on view at: http://www.gires.org.uk/assets/doh-guidelines-for-clinicians.pdf This publication is also available in hard copy and may be ordered, quoting reference number 286109, via: e-mail: [log in to unmask] telephone: 08701 555 455 > Another of the DH booklets that GIRES previously announced is now also available in hard copy via the same means: "Medical care for gender variant children and young people: answering families' questions", reference number 285384. The website location is: http://www.gires.org.uk/assets/doh-children-and-adolescents.pdf > GIRES is preparing a paper for publication in a professional journal: "Gender Dysphoria, Transsexualism and Transgenderism: Incidence, Prevalence and Growth in the UK and the Implications for the Commissioners and Providers of Healthcare". GIRES wishes healthcare professionals to be aware of and make plans for the rapid growth in the numbers of adults and young people presenting for treatment and has therefore published the abstract of the paper at: http://www.gires.org.uk/assets/GIRES-Prevalence-Abstract-1.pdf > The Royal Society of Medicine is arranging a meeting in London on 1 October 2008 to discuss: "Gender identity disorder in adolescents". Information about the meeting may be viewed at: http://www.gires.org.uk/events.php Kind regards, Bernard Reed Trustee, GIRES http://www.gires.org.uk