[Giving a future to transgender youth… What do we currently know of their needs, what are the best practices ?].

Since 2011, a significant amount of evidence has been published on transgender children and adolescents, highlighting their needs and the best health and social practices. They are more at risk of suicide, discrimination, depression. Today, we better understand that the main causal factor linked with negative experiences is to be found in direct and indirect discriminations, subsequently causing personal and relational difficulties. When transgender youth are fully accepted and supported in their desired gender, they do not significantly differ from other youth. We need to build informed and respectful practices. Three kind of interventions are now urgently needed in Switzerland: access to hormonal management of puberty (medical), family centered interventions (psychosocial), and prevention of bullying in schools (sociopolitical).