Comprehensive care for transgender and gender diverse kids
Children’s Minnesota is committed to providing evidence-based, high-quality and essential health care to all kids, including our transgender and gender diverse patients. Our Gender Health program partners with parents and our communities to improve kids’ health now and for the future.
Patients currently being cared for in our Gender Health program (and/or children or teens on our waitlist) will continue to receive care unless they have received information directly from the Gender Health clinic or their care team.
At Children’s Minnesota we provide a safe and accepting environment for transgender and gender diverse youth and their families to ask questions, seek support and access evidence-based mental health and medical care. We do not perform gender affirming surgeries.
Children’s Minnesota Gender Health program is an exclusively pediatric, multidisciplinary gender health program, and includes pediatric gender health, endocrinology and gynecology physicians.
The Gender Health program provides compassionate and comprehensive care for transgender and gender-diverse youth. We’re dedicated to serving as an essential medical partner and resource for transgender youth and families along their journey.
To learn about Children’s Minnesota’s new health initiative, read the article featuring Dr. Kade Goepferd.
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Losing home
“No one should have to leave their home because of who they are,” says Dr. Kade Goepferd. But as more states restrict access to gender health care, more children and families feel forced to move to states that provide those essential services. Now, with a new law in Iowa, Dr. Goepferd shares why they, too, have lost their home.
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