Fifteen years of community gender affirming psychosocial care in Greece documenting a cultural case study from 2010 to 2025

Abstract This cultural case study examines a community-based, trans-led psychosocial support service provided by the Greek Transgender Support Association (GTSA) between 2010 and 2025. Operating within a context of limited public provision of gender-affirming mental health services, the GTSA Psychotherapy and Gender-Affirming Care Team supported 380 transgender and gender-diverse individuals through more than 3,567 h of individual psychotherapy and at least 620 h of group-based interventions. Most service users sought support in relation to social, legal, and medical aspects of gender transition, while approximately one-third presented with suicidal ideation during intake or follow-up. Only one adult case of detransition was documented, followed by later retransition, and no completed suicides were recorded among individuals engaged in continuous follow-up. Key features of the service included continuity of care, explicitly depathologizing clinical practices, cultural humility, and the integration of psychosocial support with practical and advocacy-oriented interventions. Drawing on aggregated service records and situating the analysis within Greece’s socio-cultural and institutional landscape, this case study documents sustained demand for accessible, affirming, low-threshold psychosocial care in a context of institutional absence and structural stigma.