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Title: Gender Uncertainty Risky for Kids
Post by: Flan on February 20, 2012, 05:38:58 PM
Post by: Flan on February 20, 2012, 05:38:58 PM
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/GeneralPediatrics/31268 (http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/GeneralPediatrics/31268)
By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
In a study that asked young adults about their gender behavior and beliefs in childhood, 39% of women who had exhibited the highest level of nonconformity experienced some type of abuse, as did 30% of men, according to Andrea L. Roberts, PhD, of Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues.
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They acknowledged that their study did not demonstrate a causal link between gender nonconformity and abuse, and noted that the reports of abuse and gender nonconformity were retrospective.
Flan: captain obvious to the bridge. gender variant and incongruent youth with issues that can be worked on by stopping puberty? what a concept
By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
In a study that asked young adults about their gender behavior and beliefs in childhood, 39% of women who had exhibited the highest level of nonconformity experienced some type of abuse, as did 30% of men, according to Andrea L. Roberts, PhD, of Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues.
...
They acknowledged that their study did not demonstrate a causal link between gender nonconformity and abuse, and noted that the reports of abuse and gender nonconformity were retrospective.
Flan: captain obvious to the bridge. gender variant and incongruent youth with issues that can be worked on by stopping puberty? what a concept