Clinicians' Roles in Supporting Caregivers of Transgender and Gender-Expansive Youth

Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youth: Psychosocial and Medical Considerations.

Primary care providers are increasingly called upon to care for youth that are gender nonconforming. While these youth have the same health concerns as their cisgender peers, gender nonconforming youth face additional challenges. Traditionally, this has been an underserved and marginalized population at significant risk for multiple negative mental and physical health outcomes. Despite the hist...

Caregivers and clinicians.

This issue of Medicine & Health/ Rhode Island offers a broad perspective of caregiving across distinct developmental periods and with various illnesses. While the primary emphasis is family caregiving, attention is also devoted to professional caregivers in nursing homes. Below is a brief description for clinicians regarding options for assessing the needs of family caregivers. This introductio...

Serving Transgender Youth

Historically, many gender variant individuals have lived in a chronic state of conflict between selfunderstanding and physical being, one in which there was a continual misalignment between others’ perceptions of them and their internal self-perception of gender. Only recently have professionals from mental health and medical realms come together to provide services to these youth. This article...

Transgender youth: current concepts

In many countries throughout the world, increasing numbers of gender nonconforming/transgender youth are seeking medical services to enable the development of physical characteristics consistent with their experienced gender. Such medical services include use of agents to block endogenous puberty at Tanner stage II with subsequent use of cross-sex hormones, and are based on longitudinal studies...

Clinical management of transgender youth