It starts with mental health: How caring for transgender youth makes for healthier adults
Description
Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, executive director for the National Center for Transgender Equality, returns to the podcast to discuss the misconceptions around transition-related care for young people.
Additional reading:
Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents
Access to gender-affirming hormones during adolescence and mental health outcomes among transgender adults
Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones
Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care
AMA reinforces opposition to restrictions on transgender medical care
Better mental health found among transgender people who started hormones as teens