If you cannot find a GP by yourself, then you'll be able to contact your health insurance supplier to assist with mediation ("bemiddeling"): they're obligated to seek out you an appropriate GP who can offer you care, as not having a GP is a direct barrier to common healthcare within the Netherlands as described above. Must you want to start out or continue PrEP therapy, this additionally requires a prescription and is not generally coated by healthcare insurance. If there's a medical emergency that requires EMTs or an ambulance, name 112. This is the 911 equal in the Netherlands. If the emergency is outside of their scope, the GP or their assistants will ship you to the emergency room. Note that the web registration form ought to solely cowl administrative data, no medical information yet, including that you are trans. That's higher fitted to the in individual introductory appointment to fulfill your physician, which you can also make or can be made for you after registration. The first step to accessing Dutch healthcare, including trans healthcare, is to register with a GP ("huisarts"). Some GP workplaces can have web sites that say whether they're accepting patients, and will even allow you to register online, though chances are you'll need to name on the phone.

Somatic healthcare: aimed at ailments and therapies of a primarily physical nature, though this may embrace psychological/social help. HAG Toolkit Begeleiding Trans Personen: seksHAG is the sexual health expertgroup of the nationwide GP organization NHG, offering a toolkit for the assist of trans individuals. Trans in Eigen Hand has a list of transfriendly GP's as collected from other registers like Roze in Wit and PrepNU (see below) in addition to trans care specialised trainings. Obviously this is not the case: a trans affected person can break a leg requiring care just like any cis patient. Be sure that you've gotten all your medical paperwork from the US with you, together with formal prognosis (often ICD-10 code F64.0) and details about any existing hormone or different treatments, like type and dosages. Most workplaces have English speaking employees, for those who ask. Normally the prescription is provided by the GGD (public well being services) but the waitlists are lengthy, so some GP's are keen to prescribe PrEP. An English how-to information including prices is offered by PrepNU here. Even in the event that they wish to refer you elsewhere for HRT, you'll be able to ask your GP to proceed your existing HRT prescription solely to bridge the ready time.

Trans In Eigen Hand has an summary of gender clinic wait instances: it helps to verify if there is a gender clinic inside acceptable journey distance for you providing HRT ("Endocrinologie" underneath the column "Zorg in-house") with higher waiting occasions than the college-related gender clinics, so you'll be able to point your GP to them. Transgender Wegwijzer is a generic registry of all sorts of trans care and services. As mentioned on the principle page, providing gender-affirming care is considered specialised (2nd/3rd line) care, indirectly offered by the GP. Therefore for an preliminary diagnosis or extra specialized treatments e.g. gender-affirming surgeries, you have to a GP to refer you to specialized gender clinics. They are going to be chargeable for general continuance of care and might be relied upon to make the proper call when specialised care is needed with the fitting stage of urgency, e.g. triaging for emergency care. When calling your GP, there will all the time be a manner to point an emergency and leap the phone line to talk to someone directly.

Note that regardless of the 2019 anti-immigrant "burka ban" for face coverings in public areas, medical masking is not unlawful: the same regulation includes specific exemptions akin to private protection so no cause for concern there. In case your GP is just not willing to continue HRT themself despite these resources, ask for referral to a gender clinic: offering referrals to specialised care is undisputably a part of standard GP care. These additionally require GP or 2nd line specialist referral. This includes a newly published (June 2025) guide relating to HRT in first line care: Handreiking voor begeleiding bij genderbevestigende hormoontherapie in de eerste lijn. It may be useful to method the GP together with your want for basic GP care of first line household medication and referrals to more specialized care as mandatory, and that you don't expect them to handle all trans-specific care on their very own. Note that a GP within the Netherlands is extra akin to a family physician within the US, with several years of specific primary care training after general medical school. The most thorough initial approach is to use a map to locate every huisartspraktijk (GP workplace) in the overall area (neighborhood as much as municipality resulting from postal code restrictions) of your registered deal with, then check with every one individually.