Needing help and/or Resource Suggestions from the community

Hi Friends!

I'm coming to you, somewhat ashamed, but willing to admit that I don't know what I don't know and more importantly, wanting to learn.

I'm a practicing therapist in the US and have recently begun to receive referrals and requests for WPATH/Gender-Affirming Care type of work. I am as supportive as I can be, I'm all for people living their lives in the way that would make them happy and feel as though their external self and internal selves are one in the same.

I thought that I was good with terms and identifiers for the spectrum(s) that fall under this large umbrella that is gender, but the more that I find myself in conversations or asking questions, I'm finding that I second guess or that I don't know how to say using the right words.

I've not had anyone recoil or correct me, yet, but I don't want it to reach that point. I want to learn and know what is correct and what is, perhaps, an outdated or insulting term. I grew up in a very conservative, anti-LGBTQ family that think still believes that transgender people are grooming our kids, litter boxes are in every classroom and the rainbows are turning our frogs gay!

Do you have any resources or suggestions that I could use to brush up, or learn how to describe things?

Thank you in advance!