This, coupled with the fact that the limited studies of family acceptance of trans youth are focused primarily on binary trans youth, illustrates the need for increased understanding of family accepta

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Transactional pathways of transgender identity development in transgender and gender-nonconforming youth and caregiver perspectives from the Trans Youth Family Study (2017) · doi

  Background: A growing body of research has examined transgender identity development, but no studies have investigated developmental pathways as a transactional process between youth and caregivers, incorporating perspectives from multiple family members.

  Keywords: background growing body examined transgender identity development investigated developmental pathways transactional process youth caregivers incorporating
• Communication about children's origins among same‐gender adoptive parent families in Belgium, France, and Spain (2023) · doi

  Background Although this topic has been widely researched among different‐gender parent adoptive families, communication about origins among those with same‐gender parents, as well as sexual minority identity dynamics relevant to this crucial task, remain unexplored.

  Keywords: among gender background topic widely researched different parent adoptive families communication origins parents well sexual
• Non-Binary Identity Development: A Retrospective Exploration of Family Support (2024) · doi

  This, coupled with the fact that the limited studies of family acceptance of trans youth are focused primarily on binary trans youth, illustrates the need for increased understanding of family acceptance of non-binary identity, specifically.

  Keywords: family acceptance trans youth binary coupled fact limited focused primarily illustrates need increased understanding identity