Theo A. H. Doreleijers

TL;DR: A clinical protocol of a multidisciplinary team with mental health professionals, physicians, and surgeons, including puberty suppression, followed by cross-sex hormones and gender reassignment surgery, provides gender dysphoric youth who seekgender reassignment from early puberty on, the opportunity to develop into well-functioning young adults.

TL;DR: This paper examined risk and protective factors associated with placement breakdown across k ǫ=26 studies of 20,650 children in foster families and found a large combined effect size for behavior problems when analyzed in multivariate models.

TL;DR: De Vries et al. as discussed by the authors compared psychological functioning and gender dysphoria before and after puberty suppression in gender dysphoric adolescents with a prospective follow-up study, and found that behavioral and emotional problems and depressive symptoms decreased, while general functioning improved significantly during puberty suppression.

TL;DR: Clinicians should be aware of co-occurring ASD and GID and the challenges it generates in clinical management and the risks it poses to patients.

TL;DR: Results indicate a moderating effect of cortisol on the relationship between testosterone and overt aggression in delinquent male adolescents, and implications and directions for future research are discussed.