Children and adolescents with a transgender identity are increasingly requesting help. In the course of this professional activity the first step that we must overcome is the consideration of being considered as a disorder, depathologization becomes something more than a claim of groups of activists, the works of various authors. For example, Olson et al. indicate that when a transgender child is supported in the family and in the school context, development is obtained in a healthy way. These works have been confirmed by the first results of a multicenter WHO study confirming that the mental disorders detected in transgender people are due to context pressure and not to transsexuality. Based on this data, the present symposium focus on:
1. Updating the current status of international publications on this topic, with an emphasis on conceptual consideration. Presenting the psychological and relational contents in 70 studied cases.
2. Presenting the contents that arise in the families with a transgender child, their feelings, their difficulties, and the possibilities to continue advancing in the process.
3. Examining preventive interventions and provide considerations to be developed in schools and in the health context.
4. Analyzing day-to-day life experience of the transgender teenager.  

Doctor in Medicine. He is Specialist in Pediatrics and Psychiatry. Psychotherapist accredited by FEAP and ICOMEM. He holds a Master in Quality of Health Services (URJC) and a Superior course in Management of Mental Health Services (University of Deusto, Spain). He is Professor in the UNED, Spain. He got the National Award for Research in Psychosocial Issues, 2001, the Honorary Award of the II Argentine Encounter and I Inter-American Meeting of Mental Health in 2007, the Award of the International Organization for Training and Medical Research in 2007, the Honorary Award of the IV Argentine Encounter and III Inter-American Meeting of Mental Health in 2009. He is the chair of the University Unit of Mental Disorders of childhood, adolescence and Young Adult of the Hospital Quirón-La Luz. He is a Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow International College Psychosomatic Medicine. Spanish delegate in the Section of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Childhood and Adolescence of the European Union of Specialist Physicians (1993-2000). He was the Temporary Adviser of the Office of Mental Health of WHO-Europe, for the program Promotion of psychosocial development in the first five years from Primary Care Services (1989-1999). He is author and co-author of more than 50 books of his specialty in topics of investigation, such as psychosomatics, ill-treatment to the childhood, autism, adolescence and workings of protocolization. He has published over 200 papers in scientific journals, with peer review judges, of their specialty.