TPP 269: How to Support Transgender and Nonbinary Neurodivergent Children, with Laura Anderson
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the overall focus of the conversation with Dr. Laura Anderson?
It is very true that broadly speaking, gender identity expansion is not new. It is equally true that That That statistics show us now in surveys broadly of um folks in the United States in particular that like two to three times as many millennials identify as exploring their gender identity or not identifying squarely with boxes.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber. And boy, do I have a powerful and in depth episode for you today. I'm bringing back to the show Dr. Laura Anderson, a clinical child and family psychologist who has worked with youth and families for over 20 years. twenty years. Laura's areas of expertise include school-based behavioral health, assessment, support for adoptive families, as well as support for LGBTQ plus youth in their families. Laura is also a parent and in her trainings she shares tips for parents based on the experience she has gathered from the vantage point of both her office couch and her family's living room couch.
Laura also has a new podcast out called Real World Parenting Tips and Scripts for Families on Roads Less Traveled And I will say I had the pleasure of being a guest on Laura's show not too long ago. But for this conversation today, we once again focused on the topic of gender identity in the differently wired community. We talked about the new and ever changing terminology when looking at gender, including what gender nonconforming, gender expansive, transgender, and non binary actually means, as well as the unique needs that differently wired kids who are part of the LGBTQ community have, and how we as parents and caregivers and educators can support them without pressuring them. Lastly, Laura.
Share some great tips on how to communicate with your family and friends when your kiddo changes pronouns. And a heads up, this is an extra long episode, but it is so so good. I hope you get a lot out of it. And a quick reminder that with this season of the podcast, I've also started Playback Fridays, whereby every Friday I'll be re-releasing a powerful episode from my library. Tune in for episodes with people like the out-of-sync child author Karl Kranowitz, author of The Explosive Child Dr. Ross Green, Neurotribes author Steve Silberman, my original Asher specials, and much much more. More. If you're already subscribed to the podcast, you don't have to do anything. Just keep an eye out for new episodes on Fridays showing up in your podcast feed.
And now here is my conversation with Doctor Laura Anderson. Hey Laura, welcome back to the podcast.
Oh, I'm so glad to be here.
Looking forward to this conversation and in Preparing for it, I realized it's been over three years since you were on the show. I felt like it was a year ago. So much has changed and and we'll get into that. But before we kind of get into the meat of our conversation, could you take a few minutes and introduce yourself, you know, in your own words? I've already read your bio, but tell us a little bit about who you are and where your work is focused right now.
Yeah, sure. Yeah, and I can't believe it's been three years. That is it's amazing. And and what an interesting three years. But yeah, so I am a licensed child and family psychologist. I've been licensed since the late nineties now, always working with kids and teens and their caregivers. And in the last seven ish or more years and a deeper dive into gender identity development and kids and teens, LGBTQ plus support for families so kids and families thrive in that time. Do lots of supports of school, home interface and just basically really think I hang out a lot in a world where parents are raising children on different journeys from their own. That's kind of how like like help in the translation, building bridges as we understand our kids' paths when their when their identity navigation at at a core is pretty different from from our own as parents.
And I'm a mom.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the overall focus of the conversation with Dr. Laura Anderson?
0:00–9:23
2
How does Dr. Anderson define gender‑nonconforming, transgender, and non‑binary for parents?
9:23–17:10
3
Why are more Millennials and Gen Z exploring gender identity compared to older generations?
17:10–25:29
4
What unique challenges do neurodivergent (especially autistic) trans and non‑binary kids face?
25:29–34:22
5
How can parents support a child who is questioning or changing pronouns without pressure?
34:22–42:14
6
When should families involve medical professionals and what should they know about hormone blockers?
42:14–49:52
7
What resources and professional supports does Dr. Anderson recommend for families?
49:52–57:25
8
What final encouragement does Dr. Anderson give to overwhelmed parents?
57:25–1:02:06
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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