For Providers
Access to gender-affirming healthcare for minors (under 18 and under 19 in some states)
The Trump Administration’s Executive Order and the resulting changes made in several state policies over the past several months has made accessing gender-affirming healthcare significantly more difficult for some trans kids / adolescents. However, do not be discouraged! It is certainly possible everywhere (and in some states, still very easily accessible) to receive appropriate medical services.
Click here for more information on where transgender youth can seek appropriate medical care if their state (or local hospital) cannot provide it. Please share with patients when necessary! If you are a medical provider and have information on gender affirming access to care in your area or any suggestions please send to contact@transyouthequality.org. You may also want to submit a short blog post (or article) to us about your experience or hints to caregivers, other providers, etc. anything related to gender affirming care .Include your name,contact and type of medical provider and where you practice and what part of above you want to keep private or confidential.This will be viewed by our Board Adviser and used in our popular website where you can make an impact. Thank you.
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Videos for Providers
Dr. Norman Spack, Medical Consultant to the TYEF Board, speaks about transgender youth.
Care providers are often the first people parents of gender non-conforming and transgender children turn to for guidance, reassurance and appropriate medical care for their child. As first responders, it is vitally important that up-to-date, accurate and gender identity-affirming services be offered.
A physician, counselor or nurse practitioner armed only with rudimentary or trans adult-centric knowledge of gender dysphoria or transgender identity might, with the best of intentions, send a parent off in the wrong direction with regard to her child's needs.
Dr Forcier has a practice in Providence, Rhode Island. She is also a professor of Transgender Adolescent Medicine at Brown University, and she serves as a board advisor at TYEF.
This great video talks about the importance of the gender-affirmative care model, and how this is officially supported by the AAP. She firmly states that our youth deeply know who they are, and that it is our job to support and guide them on their gender journey in the ways that they deem necessary.
Feedback and suggestions are always welcome from providers .Send to contact@transyouthequality.org