“Children are not impulsively becoming transgender. This is a huge decision and in most children, becomes known after years of internal struggle with trying to understand how they fit into this body,” Dr. Anderson stresses. Dr. Gabriela Balf is a local psychiatrist and explains that while the...
Being forced through a puberty that is deeply traumatic, when there is an effective and safe medication to prevent that, is a deeply significant interventions in a young person’s bodily autonomy, necessitating a very high barrier of justification, a justification that is simply not present in th...
and parents of children who are transgender, have long discredited the ideas that @MarioLopezExtra shared,” GLAAD tweeted. “The real dangerous action is when someone with a public platform uses bad science to speak against
And despite increasing cultural visibility around nonbinary identities, "gender-expansive" child-rearing often looks, fundamentally, very binary and gender-stereotypical, per the children's own assertions and expressions. Lastly, parents often utilize highly medicalized understandings of transgender ...
While the gay child remains culturally unrepresentable, the last decade has seen an increasing number of representations of transgender children. In contrast to the incompatibility of sexuality and childhood presented by the gay child, I argue that normative conceptualizations of childhood are the very ...
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To SuicidalTransgender, I can relate, as I have a transgender child that has been depressed. It has been a couple of years, don’t have all the answers, but I can relate. You are right to have her in counseling and a safety plan. Needs to be reported to the medicalMore Miranda ...
Treat yourself to a great self-help book for adults teaching children about transgender identity. The author simplifies the issue, making it easier to explain to children. Its thought-provoking but basic approach makes the book great. It goes beyond definitions by providing real-world examples and...