title: Working together in placing the long term interests of the child at the heart of the DSD evaluation.
abstract: This paper articulates a number of important but often ignored questions that families have during and following the diagnosis of a child with a DSD. Recounting a personal birth experience, it illustrates the urgent need for more psychological and educational support during and following diagnosis and gender assignment. Finally, the paper describes some practical strategies for raising a child living with genital difference. It urges everyone involved in the care of children with a DSD to support parents in looking beyond initial anxiety and worry and always to place the child's long term wellbeing at the very heart of the clinical decision-making and care.
authors.affiliation: Ellie.Magritte@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ellie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Magritte
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D012734:Disorders of Sex Development / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010379:Peer Group; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012944:Social Support