@inproceedings{01HK54M2R2J4C5ME3MDDFVJPNJ,
  abstract     = {{This presentation presents an evaluation of the first decade (January 2007 - December 2016) in working with adolescents between 12 and 18 years old. We will present the number of intakes, the mean age and how many dropped out, alongside the emotional and behavioral well-being of the gender-referred adolescents at the time of intake, by analyzing the CBCL and YSR outcomes.
Information about the adolescents (such as date of birth, gender assigned at birth, year of referral, date of intake, how many had stopped the counseling) was collected from the patient’s files by the practitioners. These data were anonymized and passed on to the researchers.
The adolescents and their parents had been asked to fill out the YSR and CBCL questionnaires during the diagnostic stage. In 2018 these adolescents and their parents were contacted again and asked for their permission to use the collected data for this study. Of the 177 adolescents who had an intake during the selected time period, only 59 gave their written consent to use their CBCL and YSR questionaires. The dependent variables are the mean total problem score, the mean score for the internalizing problems and the mean score for the externalizing problems. We also developed a peer relations scale.
The second part of this study consisted of contacting the drop-outs to ask why they stopped the counseling at the Pediatric Gender Clinic. Thirty-nine adolescents were contacted in writing to ask if one of the researchers could phone them to ask them some questions. Only four drop-outs responded with a positive answer.
Of the 235 referrals 35 adolescents are excluded based on the inclusion criteria (33 had an intake in 2017 and two in 2018), 12 were directed to the adult team at the time of the referral and 11 never made an appointment or never showed up at their appointment. This gives us a total of 177 participants. The mean age at intake was 15.01 years old (SD=1.42), and there were 113 (63.8%) AFAB’s and 64 (36.2%) AMAB’s. During their counseling, 12 young adults were referred to the adult team.
Because of the low response rate, we only have 42 CBCL scores and 52 YSR scores. For both the YSR and the CBCL, adolescents score significantly higher on the internalizing problem score than on the externalizing problem score. When comparing the externalizing problem scores, we see significantly higher scores on the CBCL than on the YSR. The multiple linear regression only shows an effect of the peer relations scale on the CBCL total problem score.
29 of the 177 (16.4%) stopped their counseling at the pediatric gender clinic. Significantly more AMAB’s (N=19) than AFAB’s (N=10) stopped the counseling. 
Seven (20%) re-referred to the adult clinic of the same hospital later in life. It is unknown how many of them went through a transition.}},
  author       = {{Van Cauwenberg, Gaia and Dhondt, Karlien and Motmans, Joz}},
  booktitle    = {{Inside matters : on law, ethics and religion : book of abstracts}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  location     = {{Rome, Italy}},
  publisher    = {{European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH)}},
  title        = {{An overview of numbers and of the well-being of the Flemish youth in the pediatric gender clinic}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}