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Interview with Kevan Wylie by Kevan Wylie interviewed by Christine Burns
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The Porterbrook NHS Gender Identity Clinic in Sheffield opened in its current form in January 1998, so was about to celebrate its tenth birthday when Christine Burns visited its lead clinician, Dr Kevan Wylie, on Jan 2nd, 2008.
Kevan is not just a gender specialist, nor is his clinic solely concerned with trans people and their issues. He chairs the British Society for Sexual Medicine and is President of the International Scientific Committee for the World Association for Sexual Health — to list just two of his other hats.
In addition to his role as lead clinician at the Porterbrook Clinic Dr Wylie also chairs a committee set up under the auspices of the Royal College of Psychiatrists to develop new guidelines for care of people being treated for gender issues in the UK - so the way in which he approaches the whole topic of care is of vital interest to trans people. He agreed to be interviewed and Christine began by asking him how he came to the field.
The Porterbrook Clinic: http://www.porterbrookclinic.org.uk/services.html