I really don’t get why ppl are giving you such a hard time for such a well thought out, genuine inquiry. You asked what I was too lazy to ask.

Fair enough. Certainly nobody is more qualified to determine your identity than yourself.

I expect that she will possibly come out as trans at some point

He’s a child. That’s so true. I love my son to bits and think he’s amazing. I just want him to be happy and comfortable with himself.

I disagree. Children are not complete, physiologically, emotionally or mentally. They are in the process of becoming, and meddling with that process in just about any way other than support is frequently disastrous.

Are you saying that gender reassignment surgery should take place in pre-pubescence? A 2016 research paper I read seems to claim that risk of depression and self-harm is elevated in the period after re-assignment surgery, regardless of age. If you could remove the societal pressures, I wonder how dramatically those…

Watching the Way Jazz Jennings feels about herself compared to her peers who didn’t transition earlierI think shows how much easier it’s handled before puberty. Her being able to take hormones to grow breasts when her peers did and to block the testostorones (and a lot of the hormone blockers are reversable). Compared…

That’s pretty much what I do with my son, who loves many things culturally associated with girls. And while he is my son, I think of him as essentially genderless until puberty. He is a child, first and foremost.

No lie, my former boss was against marriage equality, against LGBT clubs in schools, and told me that his children couldn’t be gay because he “raised them right.” When I suggested these were hateful and homophobic remarks, he responded that he couldn’t be homophobic “because he watched Modern Family.”

My son, who’s 12, has rocked long hair since he was five and told me that he wished he was a girl. He laments standard gender roles and constructs (why can’t I wear skirts and why do I get teased for watching My Little Pony?). He hasn’t expressed an interest in either gender. We just roll with it. Make sure he’s…

Okay, that’s closer to a dismissal than education, but I really want to know what made you so acutely aware of your gender as a child (before sexuality entered the picture) if it was not our strong and oppressive cultural gender norms? What was it that told you when you looked in the mirror that you were definitively…

Most of those who have studied child development agree that gender identity has settled around age three or four. This if a child is consistent, insistent, and persistent about their gender identity being at odds with what they were assigned at birth, it’s best to start by getting them to some medical/psychiatric…

I’m re-reading my post, and I don’t see anything about either of those topics, other than the remark about puberty, which is several years away both for this boy and my son.

I do, I’m just wondering how in a half-grown human in the absence of sexual orientation (pre-adolescence) one determines gender. Is a child who likes sports and climbing trees a boy and a child who likes playing with dolls and baking a girl? Because that would have made my childhood identity transgender girl, hence…

The death-rattle of bigotry. (I mostly believe this and desperately hope it.)

LGBTQ acceptance comes with a backlash, those against it support Trump because his official position is Marriage is between a man and a woman (and a number of mistresses).

i get the sinking feeling that having a gay interracial family on national tv is why America Ain’t That Great No More and needs to be Made Great Again Somehow For Reasons Like My Testicles

It really blows my mind where we can have a successful tv show with openly gay characters and now a transgender character and yet we have Trump neck in neck with Hillary. It seems very incongruous.