Social Transition

Before puberty, a gender expansive young persons often find peace in "social transition" when they live as their affirmed gender by way of some simple yet highly helpful changes: 

• growing or cutting their hair, 
• dressing in their affirmed gender, and 
• often use a new name and pronoun. 

Social Transition can lower a child's distress until puberty changes their life and appearance significantly.

CONSENT:

Minors need parental consent to participate in the gender assessment process as well as for referrals for hormone blockers or hormone therapy. 

PERMANENT AND IRREVERSIBLE CHANGES:

One of the benefits of social transition is that everything included is fully reversible.

Hair can be cut or allowed to grow.

Families can stop debating whether their child, adolescent or adult loved-one's cross gender identification is true, authentic or long-lasting.