Bite Your Tongue: The Podcast Season 2, Episode 57 PRIDE MONTH - What We Still Need to Know and Understand
It's Pride Month and we are taking a second look at the LGBTQ+ community.
We have two guests. The first is Linda K. Reeves, a licensed marriage and family therapist certified as a gender specialist by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. She is the founder of Linda K. Reeves Therapy. Her therapy utilizes her clinical skills in the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-binary, questioning, and queer identified individuals.
Her recent article in Good Housekeeping, "How to Support Your LGBTQ+ Kid When He, She or They Come Out," got our attention. We talk to her about this and well as what it means for a young person to come out to their family and friends. We discuss how to respond to your child or friend and what to say and what not to say. We also talk about the current continued discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community,
We switch gears entirely when we welcome a Tik-Tok sensation - JannaTransMomma. (she explains the unusual spelling of mamma). Janna is a a single mom to a trans child named Cody. She’s been identified as a key influencer on Tik-Tok (love it or hate it) for making a real difference for trans youth.
She gives us a quick 101 lesson on what it means to be transgender, how to support your child and/or friends or family. Janna shares some of the scary statistics about trans people and suicide. Acceptance, she says, will save a life. She is honest about the mistakes she made on her journey and is funny, delightful and very knowledgeable. She shares these sites for additional resources: Pflag: plfag.org
Rainbow Youth Project : RainbowYouthProject.org and Uplift Outreach Center: UpliftOutreachCenter.org
Thanks so much to Connie Gorant Fisher, our audio engineer.
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