Models of Gender-Affirming Care in Asia: a comparative documentary policy analysis of formal requirements, provision and cost in seven health systems. Protocol v1.0

Registered protocol (v1.0) for a pre-registered comparative documentary policy analysis of what the health systems of South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore formally require and provide for gender-affirming hormone therapy and surgery. Requirements are coded by the level that imposes them: legal/regulatory, professional, payer or institutional. Non-English sources are extracted in the original language by native-language researchers, and English-language sources by the author. Every source is verified independently. The study is descriptive. It makes no recommendation between models and computes no ranking or composite score. This record is the Zenodo copy of the registration package filed on the Open Science Framework (see Related works). It contains the protocol, codebook, search strings, ethics statement and review log. It contains no study data. The dataset will be published in a separate Zenodo record, with its own concept DOI, as each jurisdiction is released. The study is unfunded. Declared interests are set out in protocol §21. The dated register is at https://edenopenly.com/about/declared-interests/ SHA-256 checksums: bbfd1489c8e3d748813c8b65280414b68b99b4cb02252f7c737a0dfe5e02aad2 GAC_Asia_protocol_v1.0.pdf b733f6294fed0d90c93a324469213c3be06cdbd85f246b839c45d9d484a808b1 GAC_Asia_codebook_v1.0.xlsx 3d81a917da4f7c6297a98235e96dfb22c4be741fb9c8b6d9214b2f0921f1e7c2 GAC_Asia_search_strings_v1.0.pdf 6e31965a8fec46cf78d21609da123aef486d32c6db1e60c21e4a00bf0163f7a2 GAC_Asia_ethics_statement_v1.0.pdf 3e1c59c983b174945d72cc32f82284ca14de16d2c4e50483ae086bc4609512d6 GAC_Asia_review_log_v1.0.pdf f0bca566e539b0d4b2022000ea283f551983a5468c4871c4f9c454497a4a9e14 GAC_Asia_protocol_v1.0.md