This post was written by David L. Lopez, M.D., a member of the LGBTQ+ Committee at the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. An increasing number of young people are embracing gender-nonconforming ...

It is widely recognized that most children with gender dysphoria (GD) will come to terms with their sex and not live as transgender adults. Transition advocates contend, however, that administering ...

Adolescents seeking care for gender dysphoria experience widely varying levels of mental health struggles, trauma, and social ...

Identity development during adolescence and emerging adulthood encompasses the processes by which individuals explore, commit to and integrate values, beliefs and roles to form a coherent sense of ...

In a recent article published in JAMA Network Open, researchers performed a cross-sectional study among 1,231 transgender, nonbinary (TGNB), and cisgender youths in the United States (U.S.) to ...

Transition gave Lyra Opalihikin the language, self-trust and joy to become the person she spent years trying to find.