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

And uh, what if I hadn't done this and what if I hadn't done that?

And I think in this particular case, it's really an invitation for parents to think about this as truly more and more we're learning a completely natural expression of gender identity development, and it's a range now, not

Not boxes and what parents need is support to have their worries to grieve the things they thought they were prepared for with the gender child they thought they had to do that work to get clarification about whether or not this is likely to be fleeting or not.

They need space to be able to do that so that they can show up for their kids and they can go to the school and say, what are we doing?

about the teasing?

Do we really always have to line up boys and girls all the time?

You know, how is my child gonna be able to use safe spaces to change or to use the bathroom?

Like what are we gonna do about all these things?

Because what we know is if parents

can't find the support they need from their community and professionals, then their kids are the ones that suffer.

And you also get more distance in a relationship with parents.

The parents I know of of trans kids who've been in the trenches and done their work and and gotten their mind wrapped around it, because it's hard.

It's really hard to make sense of this stuff.

And when parents do it, they talk a lot.

Like when I first started talking about this stuff, the parents

Or trans folks were like, gosh, this feels heavy.

What about the joy?

And I'm like, no, no, that's important too.

And it is.

I'm like, no, parents who've been on this journey talk about feeling an added sense of closeness to their child when they've walked through fire and they've done the creative problem solving and they've had an openness with their kid, and they there's an understanding of shared protection and growth that really does lend itself to.

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