Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents by Drescher, Jack; Byne, William;

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This book explores differing clinical approaches to treating transgender minors. Commentators from varied disciplines, such as biology, law and ethics discuss questions that arise from the study of transgender minors.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality.

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Extremely gender variant children and adolescents (minors), increasingly referred to as 'trans' or 'transgender children,' are small in number. In recent years, their situation has become highly sensationalized, whilst the matter of how to best treat them remains an area of controversy. A growing body of research supports emerging treatment approaches, but more research is still needed to answer a host of questions: Do trans minors have a psychiatric disorder or a normal variation of gender presentation? Should treatment be aimed at helping them accept the bodies into which they were born or should parents, clinicians and schools accommodate their wishes of transition? At what age should transition begin? What are the implications – physical, psychological, social and ethical – of various treatment approaches?

The first part of this volume explores different clinical approaches to transgender minors in the USA and abroad. The second part contains responses to these approaches by commentators from various fields including biology, child psychiatry, civil rights activism, ethics, law, gender studies, queer theory and psychoanalysis. The work will be an invaluable source for parents and families looking at how to proceed with a trans child, as well as clinicians seeking to make appropriate referrals.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality.

Tartalomjegyzék:

1. Introduction: The Treatment of Gender Dysphoric/Gender Variant Children and Adolescents Jack Drescher and William Byne  Part I: Clinical Approaches  2. Clinical Management of Gender Dysphoria in Children and Adolescents: The Dutch Approach Annelou L. C. de Vries and Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis  3. Psychological Evaluation and Medical Treatment of Transgender Youth in an Interdisciplinary "Gender Management Service" (GeMS) in a Major Pediatric Center Laura Edwards-Leeper and Norman P. Spack  4. From Gender Identity Disorder to Gender Identity Creativity: True Gender Self Child Therapy Diane Ehrensaft  5. A Comprehensive Program for Children with Gender Variant Behaviors and Gender Identity Disorders Edgardo Menvielle  6. A Developmental, Biopsychosocial Model for the Treatment of Children with Gender Identity Disorder Kenneth J. Zucker, Hayley Wood, Devita Singh, and Susan J. Bradley  Part II: Responses  7. The Dynamic Development of Gender Variability Anne Fausto-Sterling  8. Supporting Transgender Children: New Legal, Social, and Medical Approaches Shannon Price Minter  9. Thoughts on the Nature of Identity: How Disorders of Sex Development Inform Clinical Research about Gender Identity Disorders William G. Reiner and D. Townsend Reiner  10. Apples to Committee Consensus: The Challenge of Gender Identity Classification David C. Rettew  11. Listening to Children Imagining Gender: Observing the Inflation of an Idea David Schwartz  12. Commentary on the Treatment of Gender Variant and Gender Dysphoric Children and Adolescents: Common Themes and Ethical Reflections Edward Stein  13. Gender Dysphoric/Gender Variant (GD/GV) Children and Adolescents: Summarizing What We Know and What We Have Yet to Learn Jack Drescher and William Byne