Family Boundary Ambiguity Among Transgender Youth

ConclusionTransgender youth actively navigated complex and ambiguous parent–child relationships whereby participants attempted to reconcile their need for authentic gender expression combined with their need for family connectedness and acceptance.
ImplicationsFamily clinicians, educators, and policymakers are urged to consider family and transgender resilience through a lens of ambiguous loss and to promote a gender‐affirmative life‐span approach to clinical care for transgender individuals and their families.

Source: Family Relations - July 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jory M. Catalpa, Jenifer K. McGuire Tags: Original Article Source Type: research