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This is a reputable guide for families to explore the meaning of nonbinary.

Hormone replacement therapy for trans youth, often called gender-affirming hormone therapy, means estrogen (for a feminizing effect) or testosterone (for a masculinizing effect) to bring the body in line with a young person's gender identity.

Transgender is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

Gender dysphoria is the clinically significant distress that can arise when a person's gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. The distress, not the identity, is the diagnosis.

Gender-affirming care is an umbrella term for a range of social, psychological, and (for some older adolescents and adults) medical supports for people whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth. Most of it is not medical.

Puberty blockers are medications, most often GnRH agonists, that temporarily pause the physical changes of puberty. They are not hormones, and they are not surgery.