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Select Symposium Abstracts from WPATH 20th Biennial Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, USA-September 2007

In this amazing age of positive media coverage and more awareness on the part of healthcare professionals, one group that is still lacking support are the children of transitioning adults. In the past, they were assumed to be traumatized by their parents’ transition and often either abandoned by the transgender-identified parent or forbidden to continue a relationship after their parent transitioned. This is changing, and more families are choosing to stay together and continue to co-parent. With this paradigm-shift, children, pre-teens, and adolescents need a different kind of support. This paper will discuss the ways in which several families have chosen to support their children when a parent transitions. Considerations will be made with regard to developmental appropriateness of information (i.e., keeping the child’s age in mind) and will briefly discuss therapeutic methods that have allowed the children to develop resiliency and a better understanding of their parent’s experience.