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Give Them a Hand: How to Best Support Families with Trans and Gender Diverse Kids
Workshop Description
One of the biggest challenges to offering competent care and support to transgender and 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, Aidan Key, 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 ever-widening context of individuality, family, culture, and systems.
Conference Track
Professional
Topic
General Interest
Primary Contact
Aidan Key, Gender Odyssey and Gender Diversity
Workshop Presenters
Aidan Key, Gender Odyssey and Gender Diversity
Pronouns
Presenter Bio
Aidan Key – Founder and Managing Director Aidan is thrilled to celebrate 18 years since organizing his first Gender Odyssey conference. As Managing Director of Gender Diversity, Aidan leads the largest network of support groups in the nation for families raising trans and gender diverse children. He currently serves as Board Co-chair for Seattle Children's Hospital Gender Clinic. When the conference is not demanding his attention, Aidan offers trainings for schools, organizations, health providers, and social service agencies through Gender Diversity Education and Support Services. Aidan's work has led to numerous speaking engagements, as well as TV, radio, and other media appearances. He is the author of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: Child Chapter (Oxford University Press 2014) as well as a coauthor of "Gender Cognition in Children" (Psychological Science 2015).