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  1. Department of Psychiaty, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Maja Drobnič Radobuljac

  2. Centre for Mental Health, University Psychiatric Clinic Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Maja Drobnič Radobuljac

  3. Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, UMC – University Children’s Hospital Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Urh Grošelj

  4. Department of Pediatrics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Urh Grošelj

  5. Department of Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Urh Grošelj

  6. National Medical Ethics Committee of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Urh Grošelj

  7. Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

    Riittakerttu Kaltiala

  8. Department of Adolescent Psychiatry, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

    Riittakerttu Kaltiala

  9. Vanha Vaasa Hospital, Vaasa, Finland

    Riittakerttu Kaltiala

  10. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Curium-Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Robert Vermeiren

  11. Practice for Child Psychiatry, Zutendaal, Belgium

    Sofie Crommen

  12. Community CAMHS, and Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Konstantinos Kotsis

  13. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK

    Andrea Danese

  14. National and Specialist CAMHS Clinic for Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Andrea Danese

  15. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Groningen; and University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Pieter J. Hoekstra

  16. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    Jörg M. Fegert

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  • Maja Drobnič Radobuljac
  • , Robert Vermeiren
  • , Dimitris Anagnostopoulos
  • , Füsun Çuhadaroglu Çetin
  • , Sofie Crommen
  • , Stephan Eliez
  • , Riittakerttu Kaltiala
  • , Nermina Kravić
  •  & Konstantinos Kotsis

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  • , Dimitris Anagnostopoulos
  • , Andrea Danese
  • , Maja Drobnič Radobuljac
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  • , Manon Hillegers
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  • , Anne Marie Råberg Christensen
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Drobnič Radobuljac, M., Grošelj, U., Kaltiala, R. et al. ESCAP statement on the care for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria: an urgent need for safeguarding clinical, scientific, and ethical standards. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 33, 2011–2016 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-024-02440-8

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