Support Affirmative Care for Trans and Gender Diverse Kids!

I'm a proud parent of a transgender teenager, who needs support and affirmation - without shame or judgement.

Trans rights are human rights, children are human and should have these rights as well.

More funding is needed across the country to access proper care. Please sign to show your support.

primary care nurse practitioner

Parent of a transgender child

I have a long history of advocacy for the transgender community, especially for the kids and youth. I definitely support an affirmative, patient-centered approach to helping these transgender youth find their way.

I support the affirmative, patient-centred approach that meets current best practices. I support additional funding to develop more services to better support gender diverse children and their families through an affirming and trans-positive model of care, recognizing that gender diversity “is a matter of diversity, not pathology.” (WPATH Standards of Care, 2011, p. 4).

All kids need a little more help these days,even if they are actually in the wrong body are different from other people.

University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Child and Family Studies

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India

Project Coordinator , TG Innerselves , Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

MA (Social Psychology), Human Rights & Equity Services, McMaster University

As a gender affirmative mental health provider and a human being, a wholeheartedly concur with this petition.

Associate Professor, Sexuality Studies Minor and Human Rights Programs, IIS, Carelton University

Psychologist

Director, LGBT Studies Program University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

As a provider of care for gender non-confirming youth, I have seen the excruciating consequences of shaming transgender youth as well as they blossoming of those allowed to be their authentic selves. Reparative therapy is outrageous and, due to its harmful effects, not one medical society supports its use; in fact, many are vocal opponents. You should follow the recommendation of the vast majority of the medical community.

All children deserve to be valued as they are.

MA.Ed, Advocate, Adolescent Development and Sexual Health Professional

MSW, LCSW