Brief guidance
Genspect’s Brief Guidance contains links to peer-reviewed articles and other useful resources, to ensure that parents, families and friends, support groups, and adults working in healthcare and education are acting in the best interests of children and young people.
These guides will help professionals to achieve best practice in their work, and parents and their loved ones to navigate the complexities of distress around gender.
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Guidance for parents
This brief guidance is aimed at parents of a gender-divergent kids. In a world which pushes more and more to categorise and classify, we want to create space for a wider understanding of gender non-conforming individuals.
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Guidance for friends and family
This brief guidance is aimed at friends and relatives who want to support a gender-divergent young person. In a world which pushes more and more to categorize and classify, we want to create space for a wider understanding of...
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Guidance for social transition
This guidance offers recommendations based on the principles of child safeguarding.
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Guidance for schools
Today’s school communities include gender non-conforming students and students with different sexual orientations. This gives schools a wonderful opportunity to celebrate diversity and uniqueness, to empower young people to transcend stereotypes, and to encourage everyone to be themselves.
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Guidance for colleges and universities
We want to help colleges and universities as they equip young adults with skills and knowledge, preparing them for successful and fulfilling lives. We believe that young adults should embrace their autonomy. We also believe that they should leave...
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Guidance for psychotherapists and counselors
This quick reference guide has been developed in consultation with a number of senior clinicians directly involved in the care of gender-questioning people. It is aimed at psychotherapists, counselors and clinicians who work with adolescents and young people from...
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Guidance for pediatricians and primary care providers
This quick reference guide has been developed in consultation with a number of senior clinicians directly involved in the care of gender-questioning people. It is aimed at pediatricians and primary care providers who work with adolescents and young people...
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Beyond Transition: A Brief Guidance for Therapists
This guidance provides a brief outline of issues involved in the experiences of detransition, transition regret, and transition disappointment. It has been developed in consultation with a number of experienced clinicians directly involved in the care of detransitioned people...
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Guidance for parent support meetings
Gender dysphoria support groups are dedicated to serving those who have a loved one struggling with gender dysphoria (GD), or who has announced a transgender, non-binary, or gender-fluid identity. This guide is designed to give groups the basic tools...
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Guidance for mental health practitioners and front line workers
This quick reference guide has been developed in consultation with a number of senior clinicians directly involved in the care of gender-questioning people. It is aimed at mental health professionals (MHPs) and other clinicians who work with adolescents and...