Het boek The Dutch Approach (ISBN:9789024444687) geschreven door Alex Bakker bestel je op bruna.nl! ‘ God has given us the ability to repair a congenital heart defect: why not, then, when body and mind do not match℃’ ‘ Whenever a TV program had paid attention to transsexualism, my phone would not stop ringing the next day.’ In the early seventies, when hardly a doctor or hospital in the world was willing to offer medical care to transgender people, a few pioneers in the VU hospital in Amsterdam started a gender clinic. It evolved from a weekly consultation hour for people being treated with cross-sex hormones into a fully-fledged and internationally respected clinic for transgender health care. Some 10,000 people have now undergone gender-affirming treatment here and the Amsterdam Gender Team is known for its cutting-edge scientific research. Why did this traditionally conservative, Protestant Christian hospital decide to provide this care℃ What were the...