Advice on How to Handle Your Childs GID??

Reading an article kind of piggy backing off of the Barbara Walters documentary, I learned that there are two suggested approaches to handle your child with GID. One approach was the therapeutic approach which was basically getting your whole family evaluated and treated in therapy and b mending the roots of the family that it should dissipate the child's behavior or desire t be the opposite sex. I personally did not like this approach, I just felt that it was pushing beliefs on a child to be somebody that the are clearly not instead of helping them cope with being different that the society gender norms. The second approach was the approach that accommodates the child, basically supporting them and going with their feelings, belief and what felt right to them. I like this approach better because I believe that everyone should be accepted for who they are no matter what they decide or these cases what's inside of them. Even though I do not have and there is little data on the effectiveness of this approach I believe that this can help any child no matter what they're going through not feel alone and depressed. Though the author was reluctant to take a stance, I think that maybe you guys out there should read this article and see what you think!

-Brittani Moorer

Gender Identity Disorder in Childhood: Inconclusive Advice to Parents

Alice Dreger. The Hastings Center Report. Hastings-on-Hudson: Jan/Feb 2009. Vol. 39, Iss. 1; pg. 26, 5 pgs

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