Education and Resources for Healthcare Professionals

This page has been developed to support your commitment to ensuring transgender and gender-diverse youth have access to lifesaving, gender-affirming care.  You will find local and national educational resources to support your commitment to providing quality care to transgender and gender diverse youth.

Provider Resources from the Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic

• Algorithms that provide an overview of gender-affirming medical care for youth:
  • Gender Affirming Medical Care for Youth
  • Menstrual Suppression for Gender Diverse Youth
• Protocols outlining the provision of gender-affirming medical care for youth:
  • Seattle Children's Gender Clinic Gender Affirming Hormone Protocols
• Self-directed educational e-learning modules:
  • Caring for Gender Diverse Youth e-learning course
• Sign up to participate in monthly virtual education and consultation sessions:
  • Project Echo 
• Submit a consultation question electronically to the Gender Clinic team:
  • Submit an E-Consult (PDF)
• Patient facing resources:
  • Guide to Feminizing Hormones - (Spanish) (Somali) (Simplified Chinese) (Vietnamese) (PDF)
  • Guide to Masculinizing Hormones - (Spanish) (Somali) (Simplified Chinese) (Vietnamese) (PDF)
  • Guide to Puberty Blockers - (Spanish) (Somali) (Simplified Chinese) (Vietnamese) (PDF)
  • Menstrual Suppression and Breakthrough Bleeding for Gender Diverse Youth (PDF)
  • Additional Patient and Family Resources

Templates for Letters of Support

• Therapist Support Questionnaire (docx)
• Gender-Affirming Surgery Letters:
  • Medical Template (docx)
  • Mental Health Template – Minor (docx)
  • Mental Health Template – Adult (docx)

Other Educational Resources

Current Guidelines for Gender-Affirming Care

• American Academy of Pediatrics: Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents
• World Professional Association of Trans Health (WPATH): Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People
• Endocrine Society: Gender Dysphoria Clinical Practice Guidelines
• UCSF: Center of Excellence for Transgender Health Guidelines

Continuing Medical Education Resources

• Building Blocks for Trans and Gender Diverse Care (videos)
• Fenway Institute’s Transgender Health ECHO Project
• Gender-Affirming Pediatric Care Toolkit
• National LGBT Health Education Center – Transgender Health
• Physicians for Reproductive Health LGBTQ Essentials Training Materials
• Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults (a book for providers)
• TransLine: Transgender Medical Consultation Service
• QueerCME (Continuing medical education and courses on gender affirming medical care)
• University of Michigan Adolescent Health Initiative – Spark Trainings (ready to use presentations designed for any provider or staff to present to their own organization)
• UptoDate.com: Quick reference for clinical care for trans youth
• Widener University Affirmative Mental Health Therapy for Transgender Communities Advanced Training Certificate (Seattle cohort)

Make a Referral

• Submit a consultation question electronically to the Gender Clinic team:
  • Submit an E-Consult (PDF)
• For patients interested in gender-affirming medical care, place a referral to the gender clinic:
  • Refer a Patient
• Baseline labs that may be helpful to order prior to the first visit:
  • Baseline Labs for New Patients (PDF)

If there are resources you’d like to suggest we add to this page, please email us.