Understanding children's atypical gender behavior
Posted by De Sube at 1/02/2010 02:55:00 PM

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    A model support group helps parents learn to accept and affirm their gender-variant children

    By NICOLE CRAWFORD-Monitor Staff-September 2003, Vol 34, No. 8-Print version: page 40

    Catherine Tuerk first noticed that her son was different from typical boys about 30 years ago. At age 4, he began to be oversensitive, to show disdain for roughhousing and to prefer girl playmates. She felt afraid that he might become gay or transsexual and that she might have done something to cause her son's "problem." Mental health professionals told her that her son could be "fixed," so she and her husband put him through years of psychotherapy to make him more "masculine."