TYFA Brochure (6/08) - This brochure provides an overview of TYFA services, programs, mission and vision. You may download and print individual copies or contact us at info@imatyfa.org for bulk orders.

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TransYouth Family Allies resource documents:

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Frequently Asked Questions
This documents is a compliation of questions and answers frequently asked by parents, educators and practioners.

Learning the Lingo
This document is an introduction to language used when discussing the topic of gender variant and transgender children.

The Ian Benson Project and Amethyst Ribbon Campaign
This is a TYFA program under development which addresses harm reducation and suicide reduction/prevension.

Other resource documents:
These resource articles have been published by various authors and are provided here for your convenience. Please print as posted here and give credit to the original source/author.

American Academy of Pediatrics
This document is excerpted from “Caring for Your School-Age Child: Ages 5-12? Bantam 1999. It was publised by the American Academy of Pediatrics and briefly illustrates that by age 4, children’s gender identity is stable, and they know they will always be a boy or a girl.

How Young Is Too Young
Written by TYFA Advisory Board Member, Reid Vanderburgh, MA this piece addresses the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation as well as the joys and challenges of childhood gender transition.

To the Beat of a Different Drummer
Source: Contemporary Pediatrics, By: Ellen C. Perrin, MD, Edgardo J. Menvielle, MD, Catherine Tuerk, MA, RN
“A child who is truly ‘gender-variant’ is one who exhibits an ongoing pattern of behavior, not merely a passing interest in the clothes or the preoccupations of the opposite sex.

Difference isn’t wrong…it just is
Excellent introduction to gender variant and transgender children and their families. Feature article by TYFA Executive Director, Kim Pearson, published in The Bottom Line (San Diego, CA), November 2, 2007.