World Professional Association for Transgender Health

World Professional Association for Transgender Health
Abbreviation	WPATH
Formation	September 1979
Type	NGO
Tax ID no.	94-2675140
Legal status	501(c)(3)
Purpose	To promote evidence-based care, education, research, advocacy, public policy, and respect in transgender health.
Headquarters	East Dundee, Illinois, U.S.
Products	Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People
Membership (2021)	2,700
President	Walter Pierre Bouman
President-Elect	Marci Bowers
Secretary	Asa Radix
Treasurer	Loren Schechter
Revenue (2016)	$1,245,915
Expenses (2016)	$1,144,284
Employees (2016)	0
Website	www.wpath.org
Formerly called	Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), formerly the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA), is a professional organization devoted to the understanding and treatment of gender identity and gender dysphoria, and creating standardized treatment for transgender and gender variant people. WPATH was founded in 1979 and named HBIGDA in honor of Harry Benjamin during a period where there was no clinical consensus on how and when to provide gender-affirming care. WPATH is mostly known for the Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People (SOC).

^ ^a ^b "World Professional Association For Transgender Health Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine". Tax Exempt Organization Search. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax Archived 2022-06-18 at the Wayback Machine". World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Guidestar. December 31, 2016.
^ Bowers, Marci (January 11, 2021). Dear WPATH Membership (PDF). WPATH. WPATH has seen significant growth in its membership and programming over the past year, now with more than 2700 members and 49 countries represented.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Executive Committee and Board of Directors". World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Archived from the original on 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2021-03-03.