Parent Support May Help Transgender Children's Mental Health

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Parent Support May Help Transgender Children's Mental Health

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/11/473292576/parent-support-may-help-transgender-childrens-mental-health?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr

NPR

April 11, 20164:39 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
Gabriel Spitzer

Six-year-old Sophie says she has always known she's a girl. "I used to be Yoshi," she says. "But I didn't like being called Yoshi." And she didn't like being called a boy.

Sophie lives with her family in Bellingham, Wash. Her mother, Jena Lopez, says she started seeing the signs before Sophie turned 2.

"She'd say things like, 'I'm a she, not a he,' " Lopez says. "She would cry if we misgendered her. She'd become angry."
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