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International Journal of Transgender Health

Field	Value
title	International Journal of Transgender Health
image	International Journal of Transgender Health.jpg
former_name	International Journal of Transgenderism
abbreviation	Int. J. Transgend. Health
discipline	Sexology
editor	Damien Riggs
publisher	Taylor & Francis
history	1997–present
frequency	Quarterly
impact	10.5
impact-year	2023
ISSN2	1553-2739
eISSN2	1434-4599
ISSN2label	International Journal of Transgenderism
ISSN	2689-5269
eISSN	2689-5277
LCCN	2004213389
OCLC	56795128
website	https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/wijt21/about-this-journal
link1	https://www.tandfonline.com/wijt21
link1-name	Online access
link2	https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wijt20
link2-name	Online archive
link3	https://web.archive.org/web/20070505034642/http://www.symposion.com/ijt/index.htm
link3-name	Pre-2003 archive

| impact-year = 2023 | link1-name = Online access | link2-name = Online archive | link3-name = Pre-2003 archive The International Journal of Transgender Health is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on gender dysphoria and gender incongruence, the medical treatment of transgender individuals, social and legal acceptance of gender-affirming surgery, and professional and public education on transgender health. It also publishes the Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People on behalf of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health of which it is the official journal, guest editorials, policy statements, letters to the editor, and review articles. The journal is published by Taylor & Francis and the editor-in-chief is Damien Riggs (Flinders University).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in CINAHL, the Directory of Open Access Journals, EBSCO databases, PsycINFO, Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 10.5.

History

The journal was established in 1997 as the * International Journal of Transgenderism*, obtaining its current title in 2020, to reflect more “appropriate and acceptable language in the field”, pointing out that language in the field constantly evolves, and new terms being used “according to the degree to which it embraces a respectful, nonpathologizing, human rights–based perspective.” with Friedemann Pfäfflin and Eli Coleman as founding editors-in-chief.

Past editors

The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

Friedemann Pfäfflin (University of Ulm)
Eli Coleman (University of Minnesota Medical School)
Richard Ekins (University of Ulster)
Dave King (University of Liverpool)
Walter O. Bockting (Columbia University)
Walter Pierre Bouman (National Centre for Transgender Health and the University of Nottingham)

References

"World Professional Association for Transgender Health". WPATH.
"Editorial Board". [[Taylor & Francis]].
"International Journal of Transgender Health". [[Directory of Open Access Journals]].
"International Journal of Transgender Health".
(2024). "2023 Journal Citation Reports". [[Clarivate]].
Bouman, Walter Pierre. (8 January 2020). "Sumamus exordio: International Journal of Transgender Health". International Journal of Transgender Health.

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