Today's Transgender Youth: Health, Well-Being, and Opportunities for Resilience

ISBN-13: 9780367208899 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 158 str.

Ryan J. Watson; Jaimie F. Veale

Opis

This book focuses on resiliency among gender expansive young people in different cultures, exploring how they engage with and leverage school, media, and religious contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Transgenderism.

Spis treści

Introduction – Transgender youth are strong: Resilience among gender expansive youth worldwide  1. Discussing transgender topics within gay-straight alliances: Factors that could promote more frequent conversations  2. Supporting families of transgender children/youth: Parents speak on their experiences, identity, and views  3. I’m more driven now: Resilience and resistance among transgender and gender expansive youth and young adults experiencing homelessness  4. Non-binary youth: Access to gender-affirming primary health care  5. Disrupting the trans-versus-Catholic dichotomy: An example from a Canadian elementary school policy  6. Digging beneath the surface: Results from stage one of a qualitative analysis of factors influencing the well-being of trans youth in Quebec  7. Bullies, blades, and barricades: Practical considerations for working with adolescents expressing concerns regarding gender and identity  8. A critical commentary on follow-up studies and "desistance" theories about transgender and gender-nonconforming children  9. A critical commentary on "A critical commentary on follow-up studies and "desistence" theories about transgender and gender non-conforming children"  10. The myth of persistence: Response to "A critical commentary on follow-up studies and ‘desistance’ theories about transgender and gender non-conforming children" by Temple Newhook et al. (2018)  11. Learning to listen to trans and gender diverse children: A Response to Zucker (2018) and Steensma and Cohen-Kettenis (2018)  12. Prepubertal social gender transitions: What we know; what we can learn—A view from a gender affirmative lens