Gender Clinic
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.
CME Webinar: Caring for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth, May 15, 2021
This highly practical course will provide current information on the most up-to-date best practices for healthcare professionals working with transgender and gender diverse youth who wish to significantly expand their knowledge and experience of meeting the health care needs of this population in their clinical practice. The curriculum includes lectures with an opportunity to discuss specific cases and issues with clinical experts. Learn more and register.
Make a Referral
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 and 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
