Impact of Early Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth: Protocol for the Longitudinal, Observational Trans Youth Care Study

Johanna Olson-Kennedy   ¹ , MD ;   Yee-Ming Chan   ² , MD, PhD ;   Robert Garofalo   ³ , MPH, MD ;   Norman Spack   ² , MD ;   Diane Chen   ⁴ , PhD ;   Leslie Clark   ¹ , PhD ;   Diane Ehrensaft   ⁵ , PhD ;   Marco Hidalgo   ¹ , PhD ;   Amy Tishelman   ² , PhD ;   Stephen Rosenthal   ⁵ , MD

¹ The Center for Transyouth Health and Development, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

² Gender Management Services, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

³ Center for Gender, Sexuality and HIV Prevention, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States

⁴ The Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States

⁵ Child and Adolescent Gender Center, Benioff Children's Hospital-San Francisco, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States