[Affirming one's gender: supporting and accompanying trans young people and their families]

Abstract

Support for trans teenagers and young adults is based on a comprehensive approach to care, taking into account the needs and desires of the individual and his or her environment. It involves welcoming their requests and listening to their questions, in order to help them assert themselves. The aim is to be particularly attentive to these young people, sometimes in vulnerable psychological, social and educational situations, as well as to their families, by welcoming them, listening to them and taking charge of them through multidisciplinary networks.

Keywords: adolescence; childhood; dysphorie de genre; enfance; gender dysphoria; gender incongruence; incongruence de genre; transgender; transgenre; transidentity; transidentité.