Mayer and Paul R. McHugh Preface • Executive Summary • Introduction • Part One: Sexual Orientation • Part Two: Sexuality, Mental Health Outcomes, and Social Stress • Part Three: Gender Identity • Conclusion • Errata • Frequently Asked Questions ...
A hunger forauthenticityguides us in every age and aspect of life.It drives our explorations of work, relationships, play, and prayer. Teens and twentysomethings try out friends, fashions, hobbies, jobs, lovers, locations, and living arrangements to see what fits and what's "just not me....
Facebook provides more than 50 options beyond "male" and "female" for users to describe their gender identity, from "gender questioning" and "neither" to "androgynous."The Chicago TribuneExamples of gender identity in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web Teens, whose adolescence is marked by...
It remains unusual for minors to have transgendersurgery. It is only allowed in cases where minors arelegally emancipatedor deemed to bemature minorsby their families and experts. Some carefully screened transmasculine adolescents have top surgery as teens, and some carefully screened transfeminine adol...
Given Hello Kitty's fan base of teens, tweens, and kids under 10, "the immediate concern is that the database might contain the personal information of children." Officials at Sanrio remain cautiously guarded about the breach and have yet to verify exactly how many of the accounts belong to...
This idea will be familiar to anyone who has studied any kind of storytelling for more than a few months. (Weeks? I don’t remember, I just remember it is foundational.) So then some of the other questions we live are “What do we want?” and “Are we going to get it?” and ...
Talking about gender with your children can be daunting if you are not equipped with the tools and resources to answer any questions they may have. One thing’s for sure, though: don’t get bored when your kids start experimenting with their gender. Here’s the thing: You do...
So, you're interested in learning all the terms and phrases someone might use to express their gender identity. Or maybe, you're exploring your own gender, and looking for the right word or words. Either way, there are a lot of terms out there, and you might have a few questions—esp...
Online Identity Theft: Big Concern for Parents and Teens Today, more than 3.7 billion people on the planet have access to the internet, that’s almost 40% of the population. The number was less than 1 % in 1995! We have come a long way in the past two decades. Digital Identity Octo...
One of the big questions I was still left with when I stopped blogging here for a few years was very simple: What, exactly, is gender identity? If you read mainstream trans sources, the answer gets a bit circular:“gender identity is one’s deeply-held internal sense of one’s own gen...