I am going to be spending next week with family members who are very vocal about their feelings on the transgender community. Where/how can find resources to educate myself? I know the topic will come up and I would like prepare myself somewhat.
I am going to be spending next week with family members who are very vocal about their feelings on the transgender community. Where/how can find resources to educate myself? I know the topic will come up and I would like prepare myself somewhat.
Adding on to this, you can find stats about high rates of “desistence” among children and youth with GID© diagnoses (I’m not sure what that become in DSM-V when GID became “Gender Dysphoria”). However, these stats need to be understood in the context of what the criteria for GID© are–they’re incredibly broad. Any mildly gender-non-conforming child can fit the criteria if their parents dislike their gender non-conformity (there’s a quasi-conspiracy theory that it was a backdoor to “treating” “pre-homosexual” kids after the removal of homosexuality from the DSM). It’s no shock that most of these kids don’t grow up to be trans–they mostly weren’t making a statement about their gender identity in the first place!
So a bit off topic but I found it interesting. I was looking for what GID stood for, gender identity disorder, and ran into an article discussing the DSM-V debat in changing the diagnosis.
I loved this little quote: