Families In TRANSition: A Resource Guide for Parents of Trans Youth is the first comprehensive Canadian publication to address the needs of parents and families supporting their trans children. Families in TRANSition summarizes the experiences, strategies, and successes of a working group of community consultants – researchers, counsellors, parents, advocates as well as trans youth… read more »

Bonifacio, H.J. and Rosenthal, S.M. (2015). Gender Variance and Dysphoria in Children and Adolescents. Pediatric Clinics of North America, 62: 1001–1016 KEY POINTS Gender nonconforming and transgender youth are seeking medical care at younger ages. Youth with gender variance are often marginalized and misunderstood by their health care providers. Mental health comorbidities in youth with gender dysphoria… read more »

An article from the Human Rights Campaign in the U.S., interviewing Dr. Johanna Olson, an adolescent medicine specialist at the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. Click here for article

Here is a webpage by Welcoming Schools that gives some advice on how to support transitions in young children. Welcoming Schools offers many tools for professional and institutional development to increase awareness and help affirm gender, embrace diversity and promote anti-bullying campaigns.  A potentially useful resource to any educator or education facility.

Decker Moss gives a hopeful and emotional talk about their struggles to be recognized as a man. Decker Moss speaks about the feeling one gets when you look in the mirror and the face that stares back isn’t the face that you have in mind.  This is a good talk about visible gender vs. psychological gender.… read more »

This article and online video by StyleLikeU is a followup and response to the TedxWomen talk by iO Tillet Wright. Here, Elisa and Lily, a mother-daughter team who founded StyleLikeU ask iO Tillet Wright what brought them to create their photo-art project entitled:  Self Evident Truths.  An interested piece about non-binary gender and the emotional… read more »

Now Magazine presents an article entitled:  “Fix Society.  Please.” which were also Leelah Acorn’s final words. In this news piece, the author Jack Pyne calls into question the psychological and medical treatment of transgender individuals and describes the leading causes behind Leelah Acorn, and many other transgender other LGBT community members increased rate of suicide.… read more »

The Catherine White Holman Wellness Centre based in Vancouver, British Columbia, offers a wide array of services to transgender and gender-nonconforming people. Their services and resources include aid in healthcare, hormone treatment equipment, counselling and support groups and access to lawyers that are versed in the relevant legal issues including legally changing your name in… read more »

A moving 3 minute poem by Ethan Smith.  A transgender Female to Male using spoken word poetry to touch upon the feelings they have about the girl they used to be and what that means to them.  A highly emotional poem that takes you from the depths and back up to the hopeful future for… read more »