Ryan, Huebner, Diaz, and Sanchez (2009) have studied the impact of family Tiffany Signature Drop pendant on LGB adolescents, and their work has shown that families who are rejecting toward their children's sexuality and gender report higher levels of suicidality, depression, substance use, and engagement in unprotected sexual activity. Family acceptance is extremely important for LGBTQ children and teens, but it is not yet known if growing up in an LGBTQ family will provide greater acceptance. For many reasons, LGBTQ parents may not easily embrace their LGBTQ children. Fitzgerald (2010) refers to the "broken mirror" (p. 158), when the adult's painful experiences with homophobia block their ability to be fully present for their child's coming out process. The Bow pendant own psychological pain clouds their ability to be reflective, and they project their own histories of pain onto their child. Kuvalanka and Goldberg's (2009) preliminary research shows that gender may be a mediating factor in acceptance. Queer identified sons of lesbian mothers tended to feel that their parents might be judgmental of their emerging identities and notably, queer and transgender youth feel less supported by their parents than gay and lesbian youth do. Oddly, "these parents resisted heteronormativity through their own embodiment of queer parenting, [and] they also upheld heteronormativity with reactions to their children's disclosures" (Kuvalanka & Goldberg, 2009, p. 117).
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Kyle's parents spent months in therapy agonizing about how to address Kyle's gender dysphoria once school started. One day, Lucinda, Kyle's sister walked into the bathroom and saw Kyle trying to cut his penis off with a scissor. She screamed and Suzannah came running up the stairs. Kyle raced into her arms, Snowflake pendant, "Please, please don't make me be a boy. I can't stand it." It was a defining moment in the life of the family. The family sat down together to discuss the situation and Ramone, their oldest son, said, "You can't make him suffer this way." Luz and Suzannah decided to follow Kyle's lead. They met with the school, and decided to let Kylia begin school as a girl.
Working with young gender-nonconforming children and teens is complex, placing the therapist in a challenging position: to predict the outcome of a child's identity. Which children will resolve the dysphoria, which will identify as gay, and which will identify as transgender when becoming adults? Supporting Medium Elsa Peretti Bean pendant children in social transitions creates an ethical dilemma, because therapists currently lack researchtested assessment tools and outcome studies are nonexistent. Although trans adults commonly state that they knew about their cross-gender identity from the time they were small children, research has shown that most gender-nonconforming children do not grow up to be trans, but actually identify as lesbian or gay as adults. However, these Figure Eight pendant were done decades ago, when options for living out trans lives were limited. How do expanding social options muddy the results of research? Some parents are responding to their children's Coin Edge disc pendant by assisting them in young transitions, something that would not have been possible even a decade ago.
One lesbian family sought out therapy for their transgender child from a "straight, mainstream, well-respected professional" so that she would be a "credible advocate for their child and family in the legal system if needed" (Saeger, 2006, p. 209), speaking to the incredible social fear facing Tiffany keys heart key locket who advocated for a child to transition. This is the only in-depth case report of therapy with lesbian parents of a trans child. Interestingly, when the child socially transitioned, heterosexual parents expressed more support than other lesbian parents. In another study of parents with trans children, which included lesbian parents, the results showed that overall parents of gender-nonconforming youth are accepting of their child's gender atypical behavior. Interestingly, a significant number of parents in this study were also adoptive parents and in transracial families (Hill et al., 2010), suggesting that some gender atypical children are negotiating multiple social identities. Saeger (2006) reminds clinicians that "Paloma Picasso Loving Heart Disc Pendant self unfolds within the context of child's other traits and life experiences, as well as in a sea of community, school, family, marital, parental, and sibling dynamics" (p. 244).
Research into families with gender-nonconforming children is newly Tiffany 1837 pendant, and the majority of families who seek services have been heterosexual parents. Hill, Menvielle, Sica, and Johnson (2010) identify two treatment philosophies, one to assist the child in accepting their natal sex as their true gender (Zucker & Bradley, 1995) and the other pioneering strategy to assist the child in their authentic (self-defined) identity (Vanderburgh, 2009). Ehrensaft (2009) refers to this authentic identity as the child's "True Self," based on D. W. Winnicott's theories of childhood identity development. Therapies to assist children in accepting their natal sex have been referred to as "reparative treatments," and have been widely criticized in part for recreating and reinforcing in Paloma Picasso Loving Heart pendant the same hostile social environment that negates the child's identity in the outside world (Lev, 2004b), essentially reinforcing their "False Self" (Ehrensaft, 2009). These older models of therapeutic treatment has been based on a set of assumptions (a) that one's gender should reflect one's natal sex, and (b) that heterosexuality is the preferred outcome for child development.
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For gender-nonconforming children, treatment recommendations can include Mini Elsa Peretti Bean pendant a home-life that is less stereotypically gendered where the child has room to more fully explore their gender expression. For prepubescent children whose gender dysphoria is clearly unremitting, a social transition can allow them to live in their authentic identity, at home and school (Hill et al., 2010). Adolescents who persist in cross-sex identification can begin a medical transition in puberty (Cohen-Kettenis & Pfäfflin, 2003), and to date the results have been overwhelmingly positive; people who transition as youth have consolidated stable, authentic identities and do not exhibit regrets.