If your teen suddenly announces s/he is transgender...
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Anonymous
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Before you rush off to gender therapist, read this about the epidemic of teens falsely identifying as transgender:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00332925.2017.1350804 And this: http://quillette.com/2017/10/06/misunderstanding-new-kind-gender-dysphoria/ |
Anonymous
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We JUST HAD this discussion. |
Anonymous
| Must be the cool thing to do nowadays since everyone is making such a fuss over it |
Anonymous
Yeah. Pretty disturbing. |
Anonymous
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My niece did this for about a year. Found out after the fact that she was communication online with a creepy adult who was trying to talk her into a sex change. She is no longer transgendered.
If your kid suddenly announces they announces they are transgendered, look very carefully into their online activity. This might be happening as a result of online predators manipulating vulnerable kids. |
Anonymous
| Yes, look into their on line behavior-- you should be doing this anyway periodically. But I'll tell you my kid was talking to only one close friend and a couple of trans teens/one college age person - far across the country; no predation. Rather, he was doing a great deal of research via youtube videos. We were concerned he was getting a lot of false information. In fact, he was quite analytical about that and we learned eventually he became exceptionally well informed and it was us, his parents , that needed to catch up. This is not so black and white. If a child really feels trans and has no one he/she feels she/he can talk to about it, things can get much worse. In other words, know what is going on, but find out the facts before jumping to conclusions. |