SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 31 Oct. (EUROPE PRESS) –
A study on transgender childhood from the School of Nursing of the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria has been nominated for the Foundation for the Development of Nursing (Fuden) awards in its ‘Promotion of Self-Care’ category. The project investigates the transition of minors when they receive social support from their relatives.
The research group, made up of a multidisciplinary team from the SCS and the ULL, made up of doctors, nurses, psychologists and anthropologists, worked with families who had already decided to encourage their children to make the gender transition. The goal was to explore the experiences and needs of these families.
The results showed that all the boys and girls in the study showed absolute agreement with the felt gender when they projected themselves in their adulthood. Both from work with children and families, it was concluded that early transition with family support fostered immediate benefits in the child’s development, an improvement in their anxiety levels, their general mood, self-esteem and developed social relationships.
The work was carried out in accordance with the Accompaniment Service for Trans* People of the Canary Health Service (TRANSCAN), launched by the Canary Health Service with the development of the Health Care Protocol for Trans* people, a document fruit of the joint work between the General Directorate of Assistance Programs of the SCS and the different groups with the aim of standardizing health care for trans people. There was also the collaboration of the Association of Families of Trans* Children and Youth, Chrysallis.
The project has been presented at the XII Conference on Innovations in Nursing and the IX Canarian Nursing Congress, where it won the first prize in the poster category, as well as at the I Caleidoscopy Seminar: a complete look at the experience of gender in childhood and trans adolescence, organized by the Ministry of Social Rights of the Government of the Canary Islands.
