gender-nonconforming

As they grow, gender-nonconforming children need to feel safe and understood.

Gender-nonconforming children need time to freely, safely discover who they are.

As the mother of a gender-nonconforming boy, I'm not so sure that turning them into miniature lightning rods is what they really need.

What we are really fighting for is recognition that gender-nonconforming people are entitled to exactly the same rights as other Americans.

Critics of the ban state that gender identity in gender-nonconforming children is as-yet unformed.

And crucially: banning conversation therapy does not mean banning therapeutic support for gender-nonconforming children.

Other women’s colleges, like Smith, have in the last few years had on-campus gender-nonconforming groups with up to 30 members, more than 1 percent of that school’s population.

As transgender and gender-nonconforming children and teens become more visible, both in communities and in the media, parents are less likely to dismiss them.

Speech Characteristics of Gender-Nonconforming Boys.

There are also six "prospective" studies-that is, longitudinal studies that begin with gender-nonconforming boys at about age 7 and follow them up into adolescence and adulthood.

Conversion therapy in pre-pubertal children focuses on changing gender-nonconforming behavior, whether the goal of the therapist is to change sexual orientation or to change gender identity.

In 2011, the largest-ever study of transgender Americans showed that nineteen per cent of transgender or gender-nonconforming people had been denied health care.

In July, a mob in St. James stabbed to death a gender-nonconforming 17-year-old, Dwayne Jones.

Despite mainstream opposition, she continued to press for the inclusion of trans, and all gender-nonconforming people, in LGBT organizations and legislation.

This will make a gender-conforming child feel different from opposite-gender children, while gender-nonconforming children will feel different from children of their own gender.

Whether or not we support medical treatment for gender-nonconforming children, the usual rules apply: children need to know that they are seen, held and loved for who they are.

About 19 percent of transgender people report being refused medical care because of their gender-nonconforming status, and a shocking 2 percent have been violently assaulted in a doctor's office.

Gender-nonconforming boys have the highest rate of suicide attempts in the world and are three to six times more likely to suffer from major depression, addiction and unsafe sexual behaviors.

Jessica Grose wrote in New Republic that the anthology is "brimming with straightforward information about living a life as a gender-nonconforming person in the United States."

"Indeed, several recent reports have surfaced in the national and perhaps more so in the local media of gender-nonconforming youth and young adults being harassed or otherwise bullied at school."