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Community and audiences
Sites for specific groups: parents, young people, doubters and the trans community.
This category bundles the network sites that are there for people themselves: parents who just heard "I am trans", young people who doubt, detransitioners, and everyone in the trans community whose voice gets little room in the mainstream story. Support, peer contact and decision support are central here.
The starting point is informed consent: first be well informed — about signals, risks, alternatives and research — and only then decide. Every site fills that in its own way.
Main site of the Belgian parents' association Cry for Recognition — news, featured dossiers and detransition stories.
Support group for parents of a child with gender dysphoria — critical of medical transition, with psychotherapy first. Dutch site of the Belgian organisation Cry for Recognition.
For parents of children and young people with gender questions: informed consent, recognising signals, research and peer support.
A place for voices that don't fit the mainstream narrative — detrans, parents, dissident trans people, professionals with doubts.
Newspaper-style overview of Dutch trans practice: policy, clinics, figures, dossiers.
A place for all voices from the trans community — including voices airbrushed out of official activism (detrans, dissidents, parents, professionals).
Online check: 50 yes/no questions for anyone wondering "am I trans?". Anonymous, honest answer on screen, no email required.
For parents of a child with gender questions: signals, puberty blockers and hormones, the Cass Review, autism and social media, and where to find help.
A compass through the field of gender care — for those who want informed consent. Decision support, routes and risks per decision.
For parents of children and young people with gender questions — informed consent, signals, alternatives to "affirmation only", peer support.
A place for information, debate and critical questions around transition and gender. Host of the Transcheck.
Signpost for anyone seeking informed consent on gender care and transition. Encyclopaedic, with sources cited for every claim.
Where do you start?
If you are a parent, start at deouders.nl or transouders.nl: informed consent, recognising signals and peer contact. Transkind.nl covers puberty blockers, the Cass Review and the role of autism and social media. The Belgian parents' association Cry for Recognition can be found via cryforrecognition.nl and cryforrecognition.com.
If you are in doubt yourself, transgendercheck.nl offers an anonymous online check, transkompas.nl maps the routes and risks per decision, and transwijzer.nl lays everything out encyclopaedically with sources for every claim. For voices from the community itself there are transgemeenschap.nl and genderplek.nl — including detransitioners and dissident voices — alongside transplek.nl for debate and trans-nederland.nl with its newspaper-style overview of Dutch trans practice.
Explore further: science and medical context for the medical facts, broad overviews for a first introduction, or the external resources with international parent groups and detransition platforms.