God, I completely agree... It is funny that, for young children, the symptoms of gender identity disorder are not looked after. What I am meaning is that even though a child may show the symptoms of GID, they are completely ignored. Instead, in my opinion, they are labeled as 'depressed' or 'anxious'. No doubt that these children are because of their unconformity. But the underlying condition is GID. And, much to my dismay, GID is not looked out for by psychologists as much as it should, even though it is relatively prevalent. By delaying puberty, one could have the option of what they want to be... Not what society and their biology assigns. I know that is very controversial in the popular media, which is unfortunate. Children, not their parents, should have the decision to decide what they want to grow up as; or at least medically and ethically delay that decision till adulthood. Unfortunately, their can be a lack of sympathy for these children in popular society, for the proximate reason that people think that children need to adjust to their proper roles. In a sense, this is true. Children should adjust, to an extent, to the pressures of the maternal/ parental units in regards: value, manners, amount of exercise, habits, cleanliness, dietary intakes, etc. But, something as fundamentally core as gender identity... Absolutely not. Gender identity is not an fundamental property of oneself in which people change or modify. Gender identity is something that is firm in its hold. Hopefully, medicine will adequately recognize and realize gender identity disorder, and this seems like a step in that direction.
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