• The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)defines gender-affirming care as, “Safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort with [members’] gendered selves…”
• The WPATH defines transgender as, "people whose gender identities and/or gender expressions are not what is typically expected for the sex to which they were assigned at birth.”
• The WPATH describes gender-diverse people with, “gender identities and/or expressions that are different from social and cultural expectations attributed to their sex assigned at birth.”
• Gender-affirming care is meant to boost overall health, psychological well-being and self-fulfillment.
• Care may involve primary care, hormonal and surgical treatments, voice and communication therapy, and gynecological and urological care.

• “Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children” by Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D.
• “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us” by Kate Bornstein
• “Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son” by Lori Duron
• “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More” by Janet Mock
• “She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders” by Jennifer Finney Boylan
• “Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community” by Laura Erickson-Scroth

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