You're kidding, right? There used to be a bunch of organizations that pushed in that direction.I thought it was just a South Park joke.
This^^^^It hasn't been that many years ago that parents who support and encourage their child to change genders would have had their child taken away from them. What the hell happened that got us to this point?
This issue is really tearing me up. I will have to continue to deal with it, as I work with kids and it keeps coming up. I’m really stuck because I’m looking at what the culture generally as well as my profession (mental health) is saying about this and I just can’t support this.
Families aren’t coming to me for advice per say. I may be asked to address as part of treatment. I’m not treating gender dysphoria as a primary diagnosis but it can come up as an associated condition.
I have personal opinions, and I also have professional and ethical concerns. Luckily, these are aligned mostly. I will not be weighing in on a family’s decision (that’s not my call) but I can provide questions and concerns that a kid or parent can ask themself when considering all this.
I don’t know how to support parents whose kid wants to don haircuts and clothing of the opposite sex. I fear that one kid, specifically, is acting out some rejection from a non involved, non custodial parent. Some amount of rebellion and testing parental acceptance seems to be going on, and I’ll explore it.
I’ve got some work to do on how to approach this situation effectively at work and in my mind/ spirit in a way that I can live with. I’m really struggling, and I’m pissed at most of the information my profession is hawking. I’m seeking out alternative opinions, and NOT looking forward to ever discussing this in a clinical team brainstorming session. I’ll probably avoid it if possible.
Sigh. Struggling.
(However I’m pretty sure that our psychiatrist is not in support of any kind of support for transitioning... He’s cool and I might talk with him about it.)
Schools push the hell out of this. During the most impressionable years.
The only defense is home schooling. But that's expensive. What a female/male does in such situation equals about $55,000-$65,000 worth a year.
But if the public school is so bad it is not an option, isn't $65k of foregone revenue a worthy investment in one's child?
I'm not advocating public schools, but it's my belief that good parenting can overcome any adverse affects of public schools. Blaming schools for a child's problems seems more of a cop out to poor parenting to me.
At face value, sure.
But that’s $780k from K-12, on top of all the other expenses of raising a kid.
Not everyone is able to absorb that kinda scratch, methinks...
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I'm not advocating public schools, but it's my belief that good parenting can overcome any adverse affects of public schools. Blaming schools for a child's problems seems more of a cop out to poor parenting to me.
This thread isn't about the quality of education as much as it is a social problem. Certainly some public schools are better than others, but a school should not be a substitute for a child to learn moral values.Never sent a kid to Ball High in Galveston, did you?
Hard for any normal kid to get a decent education in some schools.
But you may have been referring to the social aspect, rather than the quality of education.
This thread isn't about the quality of education as much as it is a social problem. Certainly some public schools are better than others, but a school should not be a substitute for a child to learn moral values.