Transgender Children
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This expert guide to working with transgender and gender variant youth offers ways to make positive change to service provision for practitioners working with this group. Based on the latest research, the recommendations made by the... more
Hur påverkas den unga generationen av de nya teorierna kring kön och sexualitet? I den här artikeln undersöks särskilt vad som händer när trans- och queertänkandet får fäste i de bredare befolkningslagren. Sexualiteten beskrivs som ett... more
SOURCE: Baril, A. (2021) “Detransition, Re-transition, Interrupted or Discontinued Transition: All the same thing? A critical and philosophical reflection on the notion of detransition,” Symposium: “Detrans” or the Phenomenon of... more
Se trata del Relevamiento de Infancias y Adolescencias trans de Río Negro y Neuquén, realizado durante el año 2020 y parte del 2021, y coordinado por el Observatorio de DDHH de Neuquén, dependiente de la Subsecretaría de DDHH de la... more
This paper introduces the concept of massive gender trauma, a clinical syndrome arising at the onerous intersection of the misgendering of transgender patients and the subjective, anguished experience of the natal body. Analysts have... more
Existing research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth homelessness identifies family rejection as a main pathway into homelessness for the youth. This finding, however, can depict people of color or poor people... more
In March 2021, Hannah Wallerstein and Jordan Osserman facilitated a live dialogue over Zoom on the subject of transgender young people, with four psychoanalytic clinicians and thinkers. The conversation draws on short essays submitted in... more
In 2004, a young Seattle girl with significant disabilities known only by the pseudonym Ashley X, underwent a series of medical procedures without her consent. At the request of her parents, Ashley received a mastectomy, a hysterectomy... more
Culture, and more specifically literature, functions as a tool to define and shape the world around us. Regarding literature, children’s literature is often overlooked despite having the strongest impact in us because of the age in which... more
The issue of LGBTQ violence has been co-opted by a bullying industry that defines the problem in terms of anti-social individuals, discriminatory attitudes, and aggressive behaviors. The concept of gender policing advances the... more
This study documents the child welfare experiences of youth who are LGBTQ and their perspectives on how these experiences influenced their housing instability and homelessness. Youth detailed incidents of gender segregation,... more
The Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) of the British Psychological Society (BPS) invited Professor Ken Zucker as a keynote speaker to their annual conference in December 2010 (BPS, 2010). Zucker works at the Toronto Centre for... more
Recent years have seen a substantial change in how children who challenge gender norms (referred to in this article as ‘‘Gender Independent’’) are regarded by professionals, by their families and by the public at large. Pathologized and... more
Mark Latham, One Nation Leader in the Upper House of the NSW Parliament has introduced a proposed bill into the NSW Parliament entitled "Education Legislation Amendment (Parental Rights) Bill 2020" This bill if passed would create... more
RESUMEN Es notable la creciente inquietud en torno a la incertidumbre del sexo y género en los primeros años de vida. Mediante el análisis de tres casos atravesados por el tema de la infancia y por los discursos modernos del sexo y el... more
Objective: This study is a longitudinal evaluation of the effectiveness of gender-affirming hormones for improving psychological well-being and decreasing suicidality among transgender youth referred to a transgender health specialty... more
Training has been developed to support staff who work with patients at a privately run psychiatric hospital in northern England to refer to transgender-diverse individuals (TGD; Saewyc, 2017) by their preferred name, pronouns, and self-... more
Parents of gender non-conforming children encounter substantial conflict as they negotiate their children’s “Otherness.” For decades, a pathologizing service model has advocated clinical correction. In opposition, some parents adopt... more
This is a book on the experiences of transgender persons in Karnataka and the journey of Jeeva, a community based organisation established in 2012, that works to promote the rights of gender and sexual minorities. There are four sections... more
The successes of the transgender rights movement in the US have taken place in the institutions where politics is imagined to take place--the courts, legislatures and administrative policy venues. However, struggles outside these venues... more
Since the 1960's, children who fail to conform to expected gender roles (gender non-conforming children) have been the recipients of troubling psychological treatments designed to bring their gender expression in line with social norms.... more
Trans people with autism express a gender at odds with societal expectations, or reject the male-female divide entirely. Many are breaking new ground on how identity is defined — and what it means to also have autism.
Language for transgender people and transgender talk. Or how transgender individuals are shaped and shape themselves in language. Special Issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) De Gruyter Mouton Editor:... more
Keira Bell’s case against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust challenged the notion that children can consent to certain forms of gender-affirming care, and the subsequent trial has sparked global effects. This paper considers... more
Purpose: In this thesis the perception that high rates of suicidality can be found in transgender children and young people in Denmark is sought to be explored through several paths of inquiry, which seek to understand this possible... more
Many comparative studies have evaluated the behavioral and functional differences between the male and female sexes. Fewer studies have evaluated the gender identity in addition to these findings. This literature review attempts to... more