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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Schools can and do make changes around this stuff.
Grown ups need to set a milieu yes kids need to be able to handle teasing.
But if a child is being teased and bullied consistently for how they move through the world in their minority role as a gender expansive kid, grown-ups have to do something.
Have to step up and set a tone of gender diversity.
They have to bring in books with gender diverse kids in it.
They have to talk about this and normalize it.
And schools can do it and they will do it.
They need nudging.
Often, as we know, schools are wonderful systems that need a lot of nudging.
And so advocating at school, if it's a child in your community, I think having conversations with your kid that normalize gender, finding children's books and gender spectrum.
Has a great list of those too.
Find children's books that give examples of it.
Use gender-neutral language when you talk to folks.
Oh, your friend Sally's dating somebody.
Well, is he or she cool?
You know, or is he or she or they fun?
So you just do these gentle introductions of this idea that gender is a spectrum.
Uh, and so that your child isn't going to school accidentally adding to the stress that a gender non-conforming child.
Is experiencing and the same is true for parents.
I know we're running along and there's lots of thoughts, but the same is true for other parents.
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