When Talking About Children's Gender, Words Matter

[Felix]

Huffington Post
Diane Ehrensaft
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-ehrensaft-phd/gender-nonconforming-kids_b_1311204.html?ref=media&ir=Media

Transgender and gender-nonconforming children and their families, like the ones I work with every say, constitute one of the least visible or understood parts of the LGBT community. They are just beginning to come into focus. As we see the media's and the public's growing interest in these families, I can't underscore enough the responsibility of journalists who cover them and the issues related to these children and young people to get the terminology right, as they are often the general public's main portal on these issues. All of us need to get educated; it is far too easy in the binary-gendered world in which we live to confuse and misinform people who are only just becoming aware of the children who live outside these gender boxes.