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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.
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.
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.
AMA backs treatment for transsexuals
At 2008 AMA Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates, several items of importance to GLBT persons were approved. Among these was Resolution 122, “Removing Financial Barriers to Care for Transgender Patients.”
The Journal of The American Psychiatry
Biomedical Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Moral Issues in Medicine and Biology
In this book, exerpted here, psychiatrists will find all of the contributions engaging and challenging; several essays address ethical issues of particular concern to psychiatry. They include two essays on the treatment of transgenderism, one contributed by Norman Spack, M.D., and one contributed by James J. Hughes, Ph.D.
WPATH Clarification on Medical Necessity of Treatment
WPATH takes a stand in favor of removing exclusions for medically necessary health care treatment and insurance coverage for transgender children and adults.
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.
Doctor Spack Article, 2005
Source: Journal, Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics. This article highlights the ethical concerns of providing treatment for transgender children.
Gires Website
Gender Identity Research and Education Society, a comprehensive document describing treatment options available for adolescents in other countries.
