Guidelines for educators needed to deal with gender identity disorder
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20100212p2a00m0na004000c.htmlAn 8-year-old child who has been diagnosed with gender identity disorder (GID) has been attending a public elementary school in Saitama Prefecture as a girl -- which is the opposite of his sex at birth-- with the school's cooperation, it has been learned.
Students and parents at the school have been informed of the situation. Experts have reported several examples of children who have requested that they be treated in school as the opposite of their given sex, but such cases have been limited to arrangements made before the children begin attending school. This is the first case in which a child's gender has been "changed" in the middle of a school year.
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Child's plight highlights the challenges of gender identity disorder
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20100212p2a00m0na005000c.html"Why do I have a boy's body when I'm a girl?" An 8-year-old who was born a biological boy used to suffer sleepless nights caused by the pain of gender identity disorder (GID). The child has been happily attending school as a girl, however, since last September.
The child's 46-year-old mother had been preparing herself for her family's appeal -- to have the child attend school as a girl -- if rejected by the school, in which case she believed she would have no choice but to look for a "free school" for the second grader to attend. For now she is relieved, but she knows there are more challenges ahead.
