"A Parent’s Guide to Supporting Transgender Youth"
Listen to your kids—they know what feels right and true to them. Growing up transgender without strong parental support can be difficult, even life-threatening. Compared with their peers, transgender youth suffer higher rates of depression, suicide, substance abuse and homelessness. Keep in mind that being transgender is not something parents can cause, or change. But parents can play a major role in keeping their transgender children healthy and safe. And the newest research shows that family acceptance significantly protects them against such risks into adulthood. Zil Garner Goldstein, FNP-BC, program director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai and Matthew Oransky, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai opine in the above referenced article.
- Zil Garner Goldstein, FNP-BC, Program Director, Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai
- Matthew Oransky, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine, Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Hospital
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