Transgender and gender-expansive youth: Assisting the nurse in providing culturally competent care for our clients and their families.

Topic: Society's blue and pink concept of gender has been under a dramatic and controversial shift over the last 10 years. While the general population has been given some latitude in slowly coming to terms with this new understanding, health care providers, specifically nurses, have been under the microscope to demonstrate a perfect blend of competency and compassion when caring for clients who present outside the gender binary.

Purpose: To clarify the areas of potential impact in the nurse's role and to discuss ways in which they can better equip themselves to promote effective communication and culturally competent care.