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Redfield, E., Conron, K. J., & Mallory, C. (2024, April). The impact of 2024 anti-transgender legislation on youth. The Williams Institute: UCLA School of Law.
This information provides a summary of some of the legislation that is impacting transgender and gender-diverse individuals. This article provides a backdrop to the shifts happening in some states and how this could impact the mental health of gender-diverse individuals and affirmative care practices.

Kraschel, K. L., Chen, A., Turban, J. L., & Cohen, I. G. (2022). Legislation restricting gender-affirming care for transgender youth: Politics eclipse healthcare. Cell Reports. Medicine, 3(8), 100719.
Kraschel et al present a discussion on the realities of health care and the restrictions that many gender-diverse individuals may be facing. This article discusses these challenges that could impact MFTs working with gender-diverse individuals and families.

Murphy, M. (2021). Heteronormativity and ethics in the treatment of LGBTQ clients. In R. Harvey, M. J. Murphy, J. J. Bigner, & J. L. Wetchler (Eds.). Handbook of LGBTQ-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy (pp. 45-58). New York: Routledge.
Murphy presents this chapter in the Handbook of LGBTQ-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy which highlights some ethical challenges that clinicians might face when working with LGBTQ+ clients. This chapter provides an overview of different ethical challenges.

Rowland, H., & Cornell, W. F. (2021). Gender identity, queer theory, and working with the sociopolitical in counseling and psychotherapy: Why there is no such thing as neutral. Transactional Analysis Journal, 51(1), 19–34.
Rowland and Cornell discuss the importance of therapist awareness of sociopolitical issues related to gender identity and support therapist activism and intervention in formal and informal political, social, and cultural messages. This article presents a way of considering the ethics of social activism as an MFT/therapist.

PBS VIDEO, Newshour Productions, Families with Transgender Children Struggle to Navigate Wave of Anti-Trans Politics.
This video presents a narrative of families and transgender children and their experiences with shifts in policies. This video further allows us as MFTs to understand these dynamics and our role as affirmative therapists.