Dr. Laura Anderson

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 108: Dr. Laura Anderson on Gender Noncomformity and Differently Wired Kids · 15 May 2018 podcast

Parents are sort of aghast, like, what?

How how can they know this?

But that's also interesting too, right?

We don't question our sons who say they're boys from the time they're three or four.

That doesn't strike anybody as too early to know that they're a boy or a girl, right?

So for if you do have a child that is that we do have a subset of kids who know that clearly, articulate it that clearly, live in it, tell you like they're just crystal clear and they're making all their choices in line with it.

But that's not the majority.

And sometimes in the media push to kind of normalize transgender identities, and thank goodness they have, but sometimes that story gets told to help people sort of believe that this stuff is real and it's scientifically based, right?

But in reality, that's not it's not always that clean and simple.

Another really big trigger point for kids around their gender identity is puberty.

So there's also a really

big subset of kids for whom they do gender expansive kinds of things.

They try on different

You know, they cut their if they're girls they wear short hair and they present in a way that's more masculine.

If they're boys, they have a wider range of toys and they i you know present as more feminine.

But nothing they're not are they're not saying hey, I'm transgender, hey, you've got this all wrong, world.

And then something happens in puberty.

As they start to go through their natal sex puberty, so if they were assigned male at birth, as their you know, parts get bigger and their Adam's apple changes and their body grows and their voice deepens, it creates an incredible sense of disconnect with their body.

And all of a sudden, they're they're like, well, not all of a sudden.

No, what comes into view is the fact

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