Dr. Laura Anderson
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471 appearances
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first heard May 2018
last heard May 2018
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fact that they have been toying with this sense of gender all along and something hasn't felt quite right, but they didn't really feel a need to address it and couldn't put words to it.
And then puberty comes in and they're literally confronted with what feels like a betrayal from their bodies.
And so the beginning of puberty is another really common time that parents can start to see their child
Expressing a discomfort around gender because
if there is a true identity piece underlying this, it's a very uncomfortable time for kids because they do really feel that their body's betraying their internal sense of themselves.
So preschool is a prime age where you hear a lot about it.
And then there's also a subset of kids for whom in puberty it's much it it becomes an issue that's more vocalized again.
Well we know too in the research is that again, lots of younger kids
In preschool play around with expression.
But if you're what we know in the research is if you have a child who's in puberty and is starting to say to you, This isn't right, no, you don't understand, like I don't want to go through puberty, I don't feel this way, this doesn't work for me.
it's much less common for kids that age to then just sort of quote grow out of the expression phase.
So if puberty is hit and your child is expressing concerns about this, and and and often for instance in kids that are assigned female at birth,
monthly monthly cycles will will really agitate depression and isolation and a sense of sadness and distance because of all of the things that that means for their body and how that doesn't feel lined up with what their heart and their brain feel.
So that's what I keep going back to is that if your heart and your brain is doing something different than your body is, then it can create a lot of discomfort and that
That's where, you know, some of those numbers around depression and anxiety pop up.
I think and so do do parents ask?
I mean, yeah, and it takes practice and I think that's one of the reasons why why somebody who's got a little experience in this can be helpful for parents because in some ways, I mean they're
It's not that hard when you've had a little bit of time to practice about it.
I mean, it can be as simple as, you know, I mean, some people really, you know, are really super clear.
They feel like a boy in their head and their heart and and their body is looks like a boy's and I mean you use kid language.
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