Demographic and Behavioral Profiles of Nonbinary and Binary Transgender Youth

Development, risk, and resilience of transgender youth.

Transgender youth face unique and complex issues as they confront cultural expectations of gender expression and how these fit with what is natural for them. Striving for balance, learning to cope, questioning, and eventually becoming comfortable with one's gender identity and sexual orientation are of paramount importance for healthy growth and development. Ineffective management of intense ch...

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...

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth.

Clinical management of transgender youth