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

• Refer a Patient
• Manage a Patient
• Therapist Support Questionnaire
• Gender Clinic Provider Referral Guide – Mental Health

Continuing Education Resources from the Gender Clinic

• 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

Other Educational Resources

• ACOG – Care for Transgender Adolescents
• American Academy of Pediatrics: Supporting & Caring for Transgender Children
• Cardea: Clinical Care for Gender Nonconforming and Transgender Adolescents
• Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia LGBTQ Education Program 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