The Gender Affirmative Model: What We Know and What We Aim to Learn

By Marco A. Hidalgo, D. Ehrensaft, A. Tishelman, L. Clark, R. Garofalo, S. Rosenthal, N. Spack, Johanna Olson. Human Development, 2013

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Reproductive Medicine, Social Psychology

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Guidelines for psychological practice with transgender and gender nonconforming people. (2015, unknown): “…and to begin medical transition when their bodies have physically developed, or allowing a child’s gender identity to unfold without expectation of a speciﬁc outcome (A. L. de Vries & Cohen-Kettenis, 2012; Edwards-Leeper & Spack, 2012; Ehrensaft, 2012; Hidalgo et al., 2013; Tishelman et al., 2015).”
Mental health of transgender youth in care at an adolescent urban community health center: A matched retrospective cohort study (2015, unknown): “Given the 2013 changes to the DSM-5, which changed diagnoses to gender dysphoria, research is needed that (1) does not use GID as a sole inclusion criteria and (2) refrains from conceptualizing gender identity variation as psychopathology [17].”
A critical commentary on follow-up studies and “desistance” theories about transgender and gender-nonconforming children (2018, background): “In the affirmative care model, children are provided with the space to explore and try out different self-expressions to discover a place that is comfortable for them (Ehrensaft, 2016; Hidalgo et al., 2013).”
Affirmative practice with transgender and gender nonconforming youth: Expanding the model. (2016, background): “To date, Hidalgo et al. (2013) is the only group of scholars that has described a gender-affirmative treatment model for TGNC children and adolescents.”
Prepubertal social gender transitions: What we know; what we can learn—A view from a gender affirmative lens (2018, background): “The Gender Affirmative Model hypothesizes that gender identity is influenced by a number of factors, including socialization and culture (Hidalgo et al., 2013), yet these factors and their impacts are relatively unexplored in young children.”