Gender-Affirming Care: A Guide for Families of Medically Transitioning Youth

A compassionate guide to supporting a young person through medical transition. When transgender and nonbinary youth pursue gender-affirming medical care, the adults supporting them play a crucial role in their journey.Gender-Affirming Care: A Guide for Families of Medically Transitioning Youth offers the clarity caregivers need at a moment when reliable information is often drowned out by noise, misconceptions, and politicized rhetoric.Written by advocate, parent, and former surgical nurse Tammy Plunkett, this guide equips families with trustworthy knowledge and encouragement as they navigate one of the most meaningful chapters in a young person's life. Drawing from her experience parenting two transgender children and her medical background, Plunkett provides a steady, compassionate voice for caregivers seeking to understand what medical transition involves and why it matters.This guide describes the realities of puberty blockers, gender-affirming hormones, cosmetic and surgical proce