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Teach your parents and providers well

Call for refocus on the health of trans and gender-diverse children

Julia Temple Newhook, Kelley Winters, Jake Pyne, Ally Jamieson, Cindy Holmes, Stephen Feder, Sarah Pickett and Mari-Lynne Sinnott
Canadian Family Physician May 2018; 64 (5) 332-335;
Julia Temple Newhook
Professional Associate in the Janeway Pediatric Research Unit in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John’s.
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Writer on issues of transgender medical policy, the founder of GID Reform Advocates, and an advisory board member for the Matthew Shepard Foundation and TransYouth Family Advocates.
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Cindy Holmes
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Sarah Pickett
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Mari-Lynne Sinnott
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