Kids challenge gender identity earlier — and get support
Parents and schools are seeing increasing numbers of children, some as young as kindergartners, who are challenging the gender into which they were born.
By Lornet Turnbull
Seattle Times staff reporter
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015778687_trankids31m.htmlEvery few weeks, Aidan Key might get a call: a little boy in school is dressing as a girl — in frilly tops or pink skirts. A girl in first-grade will be returning from a holiday break as a boy.
Public- and private-school administrators and the parents of these kids want guidance navigating such sensitive terrain; they want to help children become comfortable calling a classmate by a new name, or know how and when to refer to another student as he or she.
