BACKGROUND Recent referrals of transgender young people to specialist gender services worldwide have risen exponentially, resulting in wait times of 1-2 years. To manage this demand, we introduced an innovative First Assessment Single-Session Triage (FASST) clinic that provides information and support to young people and their families and triages them onto a secondary waitlist for subsequent multidisciplinary care. Although FASST has been shown to substantially reduce initial wait times, its clinical impact is unknown.
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