134839 20260217205450.0 doi 10.1007/s10826-024-02832-z sideral 138343 ART-2024-138343 eng González-Mendiondo Carmona, Lucía Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-6273-8671 “I don’t want to be a girl. I m a girl!” Experiences before, during and after transition in families with trans children and adolescents 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Families often have little knowledge and skills to support their trans children. Therefore, our aim was to learn more about the experiences of parents of trans children and adolescents and how the transition process is experienced. Using a qualitative approach, we analyzed 22 life stories written by parents of trans children and adolescents. The data were analyzed with MAXQDA. Three key periods were considered: (1) before, (2) during, and (3) after social transition. The themes most frequently reported by parents were: children’s not expected gender expressions and negative attitudes and feelings, and parents’ negative feelings, denial and repression attitudes, confussion and search of information, before transition; children’s explicit disclosure, name selection and more positive attitudes, followed by parental understanding, acceptance and support, during transition; and both parents’ and children’s positive attitudes and feelings, as well as concern about pubertal development and expectations and fears about the future, after transition. In general, the stories reflect children’s negative emotions before social transition and parents’ doubts and lack of knowledge, which were followed by acceptance and more positive emotions once the social transition had taken place. Concerns and problems were reported by most of the families throughout the three time periods. Our findings emphasize the need to facilitate social transition and to design specific approaches to better support transitioning children and adolescents, and their families. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es 1.8 2024 FAMILY STUDIES 24 / 66 = 0.364 2024 Q2 T2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL 65 / 94 = 0.691 2024 Q3 T3 PSYCHIATRY 182 / 288 = 0.632 2024 Q3 T2 0.882 2024 Life-span and Life-course Studies 2024 Q2 Developmental and Educational Psychology 2024 Q2 3.3 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Moyano, Nieves Mayor, Aingeru 4001 625 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Educación Área Métod.Invest.Diag.Educac. 33 (2024), 1695–1711 JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES 1062-1024 749566 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/134839/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2000850 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/134839/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:134839 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:18:57 ARTICLE