Stories and false statistics that exaggerate the proportion of children
who stop exhibiting gender nonconformity may offer comfort to anxious
parents who long for an easy life for their kids. They also prompt those
parents to interpret any signs of struggle or ambivalence as de facto
evidence their child is not trans, to withhold information about
transgender lives from interested children and to create an atmosphere
in which children learn to hide the complexities of their experiences to
garner the approval of adults.
Trans Express links to an article on The Conversation website. This is an excellent article, well worth taking the time to read. How I wish these articles were around when I was a transgender child. Thanks to Jack Molay and Trans Express for sharing this.
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