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 information ranging from how to make a referral to our Gender Clinic, to local and national educational resources to support your commitment, to providing quality care to transgender and gender-diverse youth. If there are resources you’d like to suggest we add to this page, email us.
Make a Referral
- Submit an E-Consult (PDF)
- Baseline Labs for New Patients (PDF)
- Refer a Patient
- Manage a Patient
- Therapist Support Questionnaire (PDF)
Algorithms
Continuing Education Resources from the Gender Clinic
- Caring for Gender Diverse Youth e-learning course
- Seattle Children's Gender Clinic Gender Affirming Hormone Protocols
- Project Echo monthly virtual educational sessions, free registration, CME and MOC available
- Gender Clinic Booklist and Other Resources
- Caring for Transgender Youth: A Q&A With Dr. Juanita Hodax
- A Guide to Feminizing Hormones: Gender Affirming Care
- A Guide to Masculinizing Hormones
- Puberty Blockers
- Adolescent Medicine Fellowship
Templates for Gender Affirming Surgery Letters
- Medical Template (docx)
- Mental Health Template – Minor (docx)
- Mental Health Template – Adult (docx)
Other Educational Resources
- ACOG – Care for Transgender Adolescents
- American Academy of Pediatrics: Supporting and Caring for Transgender Children
- Cardea: Clinical Care for Gender Nonconforming and Transgender Adolescents
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia LGBTQ Education Program Videos
- Building Blocks For Trans and Gender Dive Care (videos)
- Endocrine Society Gender Dysphoria Practice Guidelines
- Fenway Institute’s Transgender Health ECHO Project
- Informed Consent Access to Trans Health (ICATH) Model
- A listserv for discussing transgender health administration, policy and practice in medical and/or behavioral health setting (you will need to apply to join)
- National LGBT Health Education Center - Optimizing Transgender Health: A Core Course for Healthcare Providers
- 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
- UCSF Center of Excellence for Transgender Health Guidelines
- University of Michigan Adolescent Health Initiative – Spark Trainings
- UptoDate.com: Quick reference for clinical care for trans youth
- Widener University Affirmative Mental Health Therapy for Transgender Communities Advanced Training Certificate (Seattle cohort)
- World Professional Association of Trans Health (WPATH): Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender and Gender Nonconforming