2018 Gender Odyssey

One of the biggest challenges to offering competent care and support to transgender/ gender-diverse children—and their families—is society’s tendency to assume that a singular gender narrative exists. Academic research, professional association guidelines, media stories, and standards of care have too often been crafted from the individual experiences of too few. In this session, Gender Diversity’s ED will draw from over a decade’s worth of experience supporting children and parents through his organization’s family support program. The goal of this session is to encourage the provider to consider any individual child’s gender pathway within an everwidening context of individuality, family, culture, and systems.

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