It can take years of reflection for transgender people to realize who they are, and even longer for them to start “transitioning” if they so choose. But for all of its intimidating implications, accepting that they’re transgender is many people’s first step in pursuing a happier, more f...
Parents whose children are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or who are going through a "questioning phase" are often in the dark about what their children face every day. As a result, offering support that will comfort and fortify them feels like...
Furthermore, having a gender-variant child is an experience that confronts parents with something unknown to them that questions most of their assumptions. In the Italian context, there is a lack of awareness about the population of transgender and gender-variant minors, and what their or their ...
Notably, this transitional context can be rich with profound physiological, psychological, and emotional fluctuation for women as they cope with the demands of new parenting and navigate the cultural expectations of “good motherhood.” Given the ways in which digital technologies can both support and...
transgender, two-spirit, and genderqueer. This is then followed by presenting various psychological models of identity development along with a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of these models. The chapter concludes with a brief exploration of some of the issues that might arise in the ...
Transgender and gender-nonconforming participation in outdoor adventure programming: Let's go mainstream. In B. Martin & M. Wagstaf (Eds.), Controversial Issues in Adventure Programming (pp. 235–240). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. Neill, J. (1997). Gender: How does it affect the out...
Episode 2 “Campus Connections” is about all the paring parents seeing the Campus and meeting their partners for the first time, and the birth and growth of the children, that will become the Activist Team “GirlRO’S” under managing Director Professor Sensor Knowsit, and each of the other...
In Germany, reviews have found that school-based sexual health education does not cover enough inclusive sexuality such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues (Gegenfurtner & Gebhardt, 2017). Therefore, even though sex education is important for teenagers and is regarded as a ...
Why isplaceso important for young gay people? During a “coming out” or “coming of age” related to sexual identity, many people leave an oppressive place in which they find themselves which may include separating from family, siblings, or parents. Many people explore their sexual identity ...
These findings have implications for intersex advocacy groups. Whilst many laypeople do consider intersex and transgender to be analogous (or wrongly consider them identical), those laypeople who are most likely to support intersex human rights are also those who endorse the gender binary the least....