When Kathy is Keith: Surrey psychologist Wallace Wong releases transgender children's book
By Craig Takeuchi, November 28, 2011
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No one believes Kathy. Not her friends, her teachers, her parents, not even Santa Claus. No one believes that she really wants to be a boy.
But Wallace Wong, a clinical psychologist of the Adolescent and Children Sexual Health Program of the Child and Youth Mental Health Services in Surrey, does. In fact, he made a book about it.
Wong wrote the illustrated book When Kathy is Keith , which broaches the sensitive and often misunderstood issue of transgender children. It follows the story of Kathy, a young girl who says she is a boy but no one takes her seriously.