Clients with a transgender identity may seek counseling to
talk about their gender identity or for another reason such as depression, anxiety, or support in navigating a specific life transition.
During the past 10 years of teaching in the early childhood field, I have observed young children as they develop
ideas about gender identity.
Dr. Hunt explains that because it's up to individual states to determine whether or not to include
questions about gender identity in their surveys, there is a lack of data on the topic.
A study with 32 transgender children, ages 5 to 12, indicates that the gender identity of these children is deeply held and is not the result of
confusion about gender identity or pretense.
At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their
beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.
Is the gender inclusion more pressing because it doesn't actually affect his own position, whereas to say the
same about gender identity and sexual orientation issues would require him to lay aside his own ordination?
The leader wrote for the Anglican Communion News Service on Monday after several conservative Christian figures suggested the Church was sending a liberal and damaging
message about gender identity.
BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD The state of North Carolina today, March 30, repealed HB2, the law enacted a little over a year ago that aroused heated protests and boycotts, generated several lawsuits, and sparked a national
conversation about gender identity and sex - specific public bathrooms and locker rooms.
Studying children before and during their experiences of gender mismatch may help untangle this, but would be difficult to do, says Case — not least because these body parts are typically private areas, and children may not be very
articulate about their gender identity.
The report also points out that LGBT students at schools with a comprehensive anti-bullying policy similar to the one required by the Safe Schools Improvement Act were far less likely to hear homophobic remarks (50.4 % vs. 66.4 % of students with a generic policy and 72.4 % for students with no policy) and negative
comments about their gender identity (41.7 % vs. 57.6 % of students with a generic policy and 62.3 % of students with no policy).
The task will include educating the affections — learning to desire to be the good that God made, when in the beginning he made us male and female — and to see that this is far better than the proliferation of meaningless
choices about gender identity that is likely to be imposed on us in the near future.
A new study of transgender youth indicates that the gender identity of these children is deeply held and is not the result of
confusion about gender identity or pretense.
The point applies to our choices
about gender identity — especially the choices our children will have to make as they grow up, unlike us, having no choice but to choose in this particular marketplace.
One of the best things he did is to accept that I simply am transgender and that not all my issues are
about my gender identity.
The New York Times reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not planning on adding a question
about gender identity to its adolescent health survey until after 2019, meaning it could be years until we have better nationwide data about transgender youths.
It's a great opportunity to talk
about gender identity.»
On Tuesday at 12:15 p.m., Salt Lake City School Superintendent McKell Withers, University of Utah LGBT Resource Center director Kai Medina - Martinez, Bill Duncan of the Sutherland Institute and University of Utah law professor Cliff Rosky join Jennifer Napier - Pearce to talk
about gender identity and politics in education.
You may have seen or heard more
about Gender Identity or Transgender Individuals in the news lately.