This presentation will look at the following topics:
- Gender variance and diversity in children & adolescents
- Brief definition of Identity and Gender Identity
- The redundancy of the term Gender Identity Disorder (GID)
- “Anastasia’s Five”: the biological determinants of sex
- The social and psychological construction of gender identity
- Children and adolescents as a special population: Erik Erikson’s Developmental Stages in relation to gender identity
- DSM 5: Gender Dysphoria – Definition and diagnostic Criteria
- History of diagnostic thinking in DSM
- Limitations of diagnostic classification
- Correct Terminology and a Glossary of Terms
- Different Approaches To Gender Variance
- Brief examples of approaches in different countries
- The World Professional Association For Transgender Health – an affirmative perspective
- The Utrecht Gender Dysphoria Scale
- Intervention
- Gender Dysphoria, Gender Non-Conformity
- International Protocol
- The Multi-Disciplinary Team and the Whole Person Perspective
- Role of Members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team
- Hormone Therapy
- Gender Re-Alignment/ Re-Assignment Surgery
- Allied Therapies: – Speech Therapy, Cosmetic Therapy
- Clinical Case Management
- The great debate: Desistance VS Affirmation (and is this the correct debate?)
- Case Studies
- Legislation and Legal Issues
- The Ethics of Treatment
- What you can do
- Referral, Support and Advocacy