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Title: Acceptance is protection: How can parents support gender nonconforming and trans
Post by: Felix on December 07, 2011, 01:31:24 AM
Post by: Felix on December 07, 2011, 01:31:24 AM
Acceptance is protection: How can parents support gender nonconforming and transgender children?
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Contact: Ben Norman
Scholarlynews@wiley.com
44-012-437-70375
Wiley-Blackwell
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-12/w-aip120611.php (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-12/w-aip120611.php)
New approach supports families dealing with 'normal diversity' of gender identity and expression
How should parents respond when their four years old son insists on wearing girls' clothes, or their daughter switches to using a male version of their name? These are the questions increasingly being asked of family therapist Jean Malpas who writes in Family Process about a new approach to support parents with gender nonconforming and transgender children.
EurekAlert! (AAAS)
Contact: Ben Norman
Scholarlynews@wiley.com
44-012-437-70375
Wiley-Blackwell
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-12/w-aip120611.php (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-12/w-aip120611.php)
New approach supports families dealing with 'normal diversity' of gender identity and expression
How should parents respond when their four years old son insists on wearing girls' clothes, or their daughter switches to using a male version of their name? These are the questions increasingly being asked of family therapist Jean Malpas who writes in Family Process about a new approach to support parents with gender nonconforming and transgender children.