Castaneda C, Developing gender: The medical treatment of transgender young people, 2014: Social Science and Medicine, Vol: 143.

Situated in an analysis of the history of engagement between between transgender activists and the medical community, this paper traces how the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s (WPATH) Standards of Care both achieves medical treatment for children and adolescents and reinforces a normative gender system by cleaving to a developmental approach.