Great article on transgender kids, real hope

[josie76]

My therapist gave me a copy of Scientific American Mind, Jan/ February 2016 issue. It has a great article on how to help transgender kids. Honestly I was moved to tears reading it and thinking about it several times yesterday. Just the thought that kids now won't have to fight this thing their whole lives. That they will be able to transition young enough to just live their lives and that medical professionals are really trying to address these kids early enough to make it possible. I can't express how happy this makes me for the younger generation like us.

[SailorMars1994]

Each and every one of those boys and girls are so strong. I look up to them. Avery Jackson and Jazz Jennings are role models on how to be yourself! So happy and proud for all those kids!

[MissGendered]

Won't it be a wonderful thing when gender-variance is handled matter-of-factly as a matter of due course for all kids? It is also my hope that such a day comes sooner than later, but all medical progress tends to take a looong time to become standard procedure. Doctors trained in the old days just don't usually keep up with the medical literature, and keep practicing medicine as they were taught, it seems. This is also true with mental health professionals, especially when it comes to condition beyond their training and comprehension.

Still, it is sooo lovely to see the winds of change blowing sooo hard, and even if only one child escapes a fate like mine or so many others here, that is a very, very good thing!

Missy

[SailorMars1994]

Missy said it best!

[Michelle_P]

It is absolutely wonderful.  I pray that trans children will never have to undergo a childhood like mine.


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[josie76]

but all medical progress tends to take a looong time to become standard procedure. Doctors trained in the old days just don't usually keep up with the medical literature, and keep practicing medicine as they were taught, it seems. This is also true with mental health professionals, especially when it comes to condition beyond their training and comprehension.

I definitely see that being true. I have found references to some medical research into brain physicalogical differences in transgender and homosexual people dating back to the mid 1930s. Back then this research was all post mortem but the physical differences were noted in the hypothalamus back then showing trans people being more like their claimed mental gender. So despite the scientific medical research to the contrary, psych field doctors continued to treat it as a mental illness for so long.