{"id":1652,"date":"2020-10-21T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2020-10-21T16:29:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T20:29:31","slug":"what-is-the-cpath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/what-is-the-cpath\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the CPATH?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"h-le-cpath-d-j-entendu-parler-c-est-l-acronyme-anglophone-de-l-association-professionnelle-canadienne-pour-la-sant-transgenre-canadian-professional-association-for-transgender-health-une-organisation-de-professionnels-qui-se-consacre-la-sant-des-personnes-trans\">Have you heard of CPATH? CPATH is the acronym for the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health, an organization of professionals dedicated to trans health.<\/h2>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n<p>This organization was founded in 2007 with the goal of connecting a network of healthcare providers willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/monarch-and-cpath\/\">meet annually<\/a> to discuss and advance trans health issues and research. <a href=\"http:\/\/cpath.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CPATH<\/a> is therefore interested in people who self-identify as trans, transgender, transsexual, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/two-spirit-and-transsexuals-in-indigenous-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two-spirit<\/a>, in transition, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/non-binary-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">non-binary<\/a>, queer, and men and women with transitional medical histories. For the remainder of this text, we will use the term trans to encompass the entire spectrum outlined above.<\/p>\n<p>Trans people are increasingly visible in society. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CPATH-strategic-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They represent between 0.5% and 1% of the Canadian population<\/a> . Also, the number of people requiring transition-related care doubles every five or six years. Although great progress has been made over the years, access to satisfactory healthcare for trans people remains a challenge. Not all healthcare professionals are personally or professionally aware of the issues faced by trans people or the complexities of care.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CPATH-strategic-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An american study<\/a> found that 19% of trans people have experienced a denial of care, 28% have experienced harassment in a medical setting, and 50% report that they have had to educate their doctors about trans care. CPATH works mainly to improve access to health services in a positive way, end stigma, contribute to the development of skills for professionals working with trans people, and generally disseminate information to broaden the inclusion of trans people.<\/p>\n<p>In a two-year process, CPATH also worked towards generating <a href=\"http:\/\/cpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CPATH-Ethical-Guidelines-EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ethical guidelines<\/a> for research involving trans people and communities. These ethical guidelines list six overarching principles for trans research:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attentiveness to Issues of Legitimacy and Impact on Communities;<\/li>\n<li>Engagement with Communities;<\/li>\n<li>Consent and Confidentiality;<\/li>\n<li>Consideration of Diversity, Power, Marginalization and Representation;<\/li>\n<li>Accountability to Participants and Trans Communities;<\/li>\n<li>Reflexivity on the Part of Researchers and Research Teams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These Ethical guidelines were developed by a team of trans people and professionals and are the result of workshops and consultations held at the CPATH conference in Halifax in 2015, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/what-is-the-wpath\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)<\/a> conference in Amsterdam in 2016, and at the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/two-spirit-and-transsexuals-in-indigenous-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Two Spirit<\/a> and Queer People of Colour Call to Conversation with LGBT &amp; Allies conference in Winnipeg in 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-social has-text-align-center is-style-mask has-colors\" style=\" \"><ul><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/what-is-the-cpath\/&#038;title=What%20is%20the%20CPATH?\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-block-coblocks-social__button wp-block-coblocks-social__button--facebook     has-padding\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" style=\"border-radius: 40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-social__icon\" style=\"height:30px;width: 30px;\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-social__text\">Share on Facebook<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=What%20is%20the%20CPATH?&#038;url=https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/what-is-the-cpath\/\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-block-coblocks-social__button wp-block-coblocks-social__button--twitter     has-padding\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" style=\"border-radius: 40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-social__icon\" style=\"height:30px;width: 30px;\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-social__text\">Share on Twitter<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"mailto:?subject=What%20is%20the%20CPATH?&#038;body=What%20is%20the%20CPATH?&mdash;https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/what-is-the-cpath\/\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-block-coblocks-social__button wp-block-coblocks-social__button--email     has-padding\" title=\"Share via Email\" style=\"border-radius: 40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-social__icon\" style=\"height:30px;width: 30px;\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-social__text\">Share via Email<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPATH is the acronym for the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health, an organization of professionals dedicated to trans health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[128,216],"tags":[339,236,231,245,272,1710,1282,114,280,116,117,455,274,218,260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grsmontreal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}