Gender-Affirming Care and Homelessness: An Annotated Bibliography

Pediatric providers serve a critically important role in guiding and supporting the families of children under their care. Because of this role, the parents, guardians, and other caregivers (hereafter referred to as families) of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children and adolescents may reach out to their pediatric providers soon after learning of their child’s gender identity. Families react to their child’s disclosure with a range of emotions and questions. While some express anger, fear, doubt, and dismissiveness, others are supportive, affirming, and celebratory. As pediatric providers, it is therefore important to be prepared with resources and referrals in response to a variety of family and patient needs and priorities. Due to the historical lack of training in TGD health care provided by health professional schools, however, many pediatric providers may not be aware of best and promising practices to support these families.1-3 The purpose of this publication, therefore, is to educate pediatric primary care providers, mental health providers, and health center administrators about how to actively engage families in the support of their TGD children, with the aim of decreasing family
conflict and improving the health of TGD youth.

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