'Actitude' medical congress brings together experts on transsexuality for two days
This midday the second edition of Actitude medical congress, about transsexuality, organized by the Department of Equality with the support of the Department of Universal Health and Public Health and coordinated by Trans-Socialmedia has been closed in Aula Cultura CAM, and that have turned Benidorm into a mandatory reference point in the field of Equality, given the prestige and curriculum of the specialists who have participated.
The councillor of Equality, Ángela Zaragozí, has closed these days recognizing that "we have worked to offer a complete and quality program that has served as a direct contact channel. Speakers spoke in first person of their experience, with total generosity , exposing the problems they faced on their way. There has also been talk about psychology, pharmacology, psychiatry or surgery, travelling the change of their transition, especially female, exposing historical, biological facts, talking about a very sensitive issue such as HIV or minors. "
The journalist Carolina Laferre, promoter of this congress wanted to recognize the work of the Department of Equality by delivering the award in this second edition to the Equality Agent Ana Lloret Such and the Equality Technician Mari Carmen Díaz, for the support, defense, visibility and social projection made to female transsexuality.
This second edition of Actitude has been attended by the pediatrician Silvia Aznar, responsible for Trans Minors; Rosa Almiral, the director of Trànsit, an entity through which more than 1,400 patients have passed from all over Spain; Alicia de Benito, the pharmacologist; Ana Peiró, responsible for the Pain Unit of the General Hospital of Alicante; Anna López, coordinator of the Catalan Health Service (CatSalut), a benchmark for surgical care for transsexual women; Immacullada Amador, clinical psychologist of Doctors of the World; Daniel Cortez, surgeon, gynecologist and HIV specialist; Gregorio Gómez Bajo, plastic surgeon of the General Hospital of Albacete: Sara Giol, physiotherapist specializing in pelvic floor; and Marta Reina, the first trans police woman from Catalonia, who will soon have an operation,
