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• TYFA Brochure
  Our brochure is currently under revision and should be available again shortly, thank you for your patience.
• GID Reform
  This document, by Kelley Winters, Ph.D., references the ‘gender identity disorder’ diagnosis as it appears in the DSM-IV. It also addresses the need for rethinking this diagnosis as it is currently written. TYFA supports this reform.
• 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 by Reid Vanderburgh, MA a wonderful piece which 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: The gender-variant child
  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.
• Treatment guidelines for adolescents in Vancouver, BC
  Caring for Transgender Adolescents in BC: Suggested Guidelines, Clinical Management of Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents, Annelou L.C. de Vries, M.D., Ph.D., Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis, Ph.D., Henriette Delemarre-Van de Waal, M.D., Ph.D. Ethical, Legal, and Psychosocial Issues in Care of Transgender Adolescents, Catherine White Holman, Joshua Goldberg,January 2006
• Gires Website
  Gender Identity Research and Education Society, a comprehensive document describing treatment options for adolescents in other countries.
• Difference isn’t wrong…it just is
  Embracing families with transgender and gender variant children, by Kim Pearson, November 2, 2007
• San Francisco Chronicle Website
  LET THEM BE, What’s the proper parental response when faced with a kid who’s gender variant? By Sarah Hoffman, Sunday, April 8, 2007
• Doctor Spack Article, 2005
  Source: Journal, Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics. This article highlights the ethical concerns of providing treatment for transgender children.