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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]can I just ask, there is a lot of pressure on our kids today that creates gender confusion.  What if your daughter thinks she's transgender but actually is not?  Who can help her?[/quote]

She'll figure it out either way with support.  I don't believe there are any pressures to create gender confusion, but there are opportunities for acceptance and exploration. There remain huge pressures to gender conform.  No 13 year old wants to be transgender  -- it is a tough today despite the recent public awareness.   But when kids reach this conclusion in puberty it is more likely than not to stick, unlike with younger children. Protocols prohibit physical transitions before social ones (living as the opposite of one's birth gender) and some kids (and adults) reject binary gender Norns and treat gender as a spectrum between male and female. There is, unfortunately, no single medical diagnostic tool for this, but with assessments and counseling over time a relatively clear picture can emerge.  I commend the Charlie Rose special that aired this week to anyone wishing to learn the hard scientific work going on at places like Stanford, Harvard, Cambridge and Wisconsin to better understand the biological underpinnings of being transgender.  [/quote]

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