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Research tells us that parental support is strongly associated with positive health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people who are questioning their gender identity or identify as gender diverse. Many parents want to support their child but experience challenges along the way.
Transforming Families is a collaborative effort being led by Telethon Kids Institute in Perth to provide evidence-based information and resources to parents of trans children and young people. Together with parents and our partner organisations, we have developed this site to help parents understand and support their trans child while recognising that every family’s journey looks different. We hope that this site helps parents (as well as peers, professionals, allies and other family members) to find the information, support and resources we know they need.
The papers below report on research conducted by the Transforming Families research team, which informed the development of this website:
Authors: Morgan, H., Wells, L., Lin, A., Strauss, P. & Perry, Y.
Date of publication: 2023
Journal: LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Authors: Morgan, H., Raab, D., Lin, A., Strauss, P., & Perry, Y.
Date of publication: 2023
Journal: LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Transforming Families has been developed on lands across the country we know as Australia. We would like to pay specific respect to the Whadjuk Noongar Elders past and present, upon whose lands this site was conceptualised and primarily created.
Additionally, we’d like to recognise trans Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advocates and workers and acknowledge the work they have done and continue to do within trans communities.
Stones (they/them) is a non-binary digital artist based in Menang Noongar Land/Albany, Western Australia. Stones has kindly contributed the logo and illustrations on this site and is available for commission work. To contact Stones and view their work, please visit their website.
The development and evaluation of Transforming Families was generously funded by Healthway, the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation.
The Transforming Families website is an invaluable tool containing helpful, practical information for families like ours who are supporting their children through their transition. I am sure it will be of comfort to trans kids, their families, friends, relatives, schools and other allies.
Transforming Families is a wonderful online resource for all people - for those with transitioning/questioning family members, schools, employers or members of the public wishing to learn more.
There are answers here on the website to all the many, many questions I had in those early months and years as a new and confused trans parent. Navigating this journey as a family would have been so much easier for us all with access to this extensive information and resources. 'Transforming Families' is undoubtedly a game-changer.