Excellent video, excellent family. More like them are needed:
Of course, according to Equality Matters, SOME people (such as Fox News' Keith Ablow) are being nasty about the situation:
Equality Matters points out that Ablow has no expertise in sexuality issues. Equality Matters also points out:
Of course, according to Equality Matters, SOME people (such as Fox News' Keith Ablow) are being nasty about the situation:
“From a personal, not a professional standpoint, were my daughter to assert that she were a boy, not a girl, there is no chance we would be headed to a surgeon’s office without a trial of anti-psychotic medication,”
Equality Matters points out that Ablow has no expertise in sexuality issues. Equality Matters also points out:
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, gender identity is usually established by the age of four. Medical professionals note that denying medical treatment to transgender children can be harmful; Dr. Norman Spack of Children’s Hospital Boston, for instance, states that many children who don’t receive treatment resort to self-mutilation in an attempt to change their anatomies. According to Spack, the earlier children deemed to need treatment start receiving it, the easier of a time they'll have passing as the gender with which they identify and the less likely they'll be to require more radical treatments later in life.
The American Psychological Association has stated that it is “not helpful to force [a transgender child] to act in a more gender-conforming way.” Family rejection of transgender youth has been linked to a series of negative health consequences.