“Sons”
By my reading, this is a story about two daughters, one of whom had a supportive, loving family that accepted her for who she was, while the other ended up in what amounted to conversion “therapy” under a misinformed psychologist.
I looked up that psychologist. His name is Kenneth Zucker. Turns out he was ultimately fired and his clinic closed in 2015, in large part because what they were doing was basically torture for that poor girl.
I hope now, 16 years later, she’s free and can be the person she wants to be.
one of whom had a supportive, loving family that accepted her for who she was
Which, in general, is all a trans person needs. Love and acceptance for who they are.
And it’s so sad that something so simple can’t be given to them by their families so often.
Exactly. Who the hell does it really hurt if your kid wants to wear dresses? Bigoted adults shouldn’t get to dictate what children wear or do not wear. I too hope that women gets to have all the dresses and pink and barbies she wants when she is finally free of her family.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
He explained that unless Carol and her husband helped the child to change his behavior, as Bradley grew older, he likely would be rejected by both peer groups.
Bradley would populate his pictures with the toys and interests he no longer had access to – princesses with long flowing hair, fairies in elaborate dresses, rainbows of pink and purple and pale yellow.
And though Ehrensaft does not always encourage children who express gender flexibility to “transition” to living as a member of the opposite sex, in the case of Jonah, she thought it was appropriate.
Thirty-five years ago, homosexuality was considered a mental illness — a pathology so severe that it required aggressive therapeutic intervention.
Because Ehrensaft sees transgenderism as akin to homosexuality, she says, she thinks Zucker’s therapy — which seeks to condition children out of a transgender identity – is unethical.
Bradley has been in therapy now for eight months, and Carol says still, on the rare occasions when she cannot avoid having him exposed to girl toys, like when they visit family, it doesn’t go well.
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