The Importance of Transness in Therapy for Kids

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"This attempt to eradicate transness is built into standard clinical procedure with children and teenagers," she says. "They'll sexualize these kids, they'll invade their privacy, they'll harass them." The idea that like gay and lesbian children are being pressured into transition couldn't be more of an inversion of reality", writes LZ Granderson. 'Just forcing kids to wait for things is harm enough'

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