The gift of transition
Posted on 26 January 2011
By ANTHONY CARLINO, NSW Gender Centre Counsellor.
http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/2011/01/26/the-gift-of-transition/42836Children need love and acceptance. These are universal needs which are important to a child's healthy development.
The parent who is transgendered has such responsibilities like any parent. At the same time, being a transgender parent presents unique challenges. I would like to focus on transphobia and a potential impact it can have for a transgendered parent.
One of the most saddening beliefs I have heard transgendered parents communicate is that it may be in their child's best interest to withdraw, as a parent, to protect a child from transphobia.
