It says it has not identified losses arising from the publication of CFM (Federal Council of Medicine) Resolution of April this year that. The folder states that the edited standards follow the parameters of the SUS (Unified Health System).
The letter of Minister Alexandre Padilha was sent last Monday (18) to the minister, (Supreme Federal Court), rapporteur of the action presented by Antra (National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals) and IBRA (Brazilian Institute of Transmasculinities).
The document includes demonstrations of the Legal Consulting (Conjur) with the Ministry of Health and Order of July this year, the Department of Home Hospital and Emergency Care, of the Secretariat of Specialized Health Care.
In the Conjur report, Union lawyer Renata Telles Severo Flores, coordinator of special matters in judicial litigation, says that the transsexualizing process in SUS is dealt with in 2017. Annexes of the ordinance bring the information that hormonal treatment is minimum age 18 years, while male sexual reassignment surgery should be performed from 21 years.
In addition to prohibiting hormonal treatment for minors, CFM resolution also increased from 18 years to 21 years the minimum age for.
The report also cites an order from the Department of Home Hospital and Emergency Care, which states that there is no, “so far, mapping any damages arising from the new resolution [do CFM]since it establishes the minimum age of 18 years for the beginning of hormone therapy and 21 years for surgical procedures, in line with the current parameters in the transsexualizing process of the Unified Health System (SUS). “
In the final considerations, the lawyer states that the “performance of the technical area observes the objectives, guidelines, principles and norms established by the Ministry of Health, in line with the Unified Health System (SUS) and the Federal Constitution, so that the analysis of the matter finds the foundation in this normative framework, as well as that the conduction of the transsexualizing process program within SUS follows the best scientific evidence, in respect and attention to children and attention teenagers. “
Sought, the Ministry of Health did not speak until the publication of this text.
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