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Supporting Without Steering: Understanding and Affirming LGBTQ Kids and Young Adults

This session will provide an overview of the development of sexual and gender identities, evaluate related health disparities and suggest an approach healthcare professional can use to support kinds and young adults during their development.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the development of sexual and gender identities in kids and youth
  • Illustrate ways LGBTQ youth are targeted and experience health disparities, including intersectional identities
  • Discuss a “support without steering” approach to gender diversity in kids and young adults, using case examples
This program is provided by ACOFP for educational purposes only. The material presented is not intended to represent the sole or best medical interventions for the discussed diagnoses, but rather is intended to present the opinions of the authors or presenters that may be helpful to other practitioners. Participants engaging in this medical education program do so with the full knowledge that they waive any claim they may have against ACOFP for reliance on any information presented during these educational activities.

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.25 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report continuing medical education (CME) credits commensurate with the physician’s participation in this program.

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

ACOFP designates this enduring activity for 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.