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OK folks, listen up. This is really good video series by ABC and I think it is important enough that I wrote them to thank them for running such a complete and caring series. The world is getting better for us. Be brave.
There are I think 6 videos in this series.
Gwendolyn
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/jackie-transgender-kid...
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MtFtM
I remember reading about this one ages ago, and I also remember a comment: that tiggers have always been transgender. How amazing; be extremely rich and the quack immediately puts you on hormones, but be normal and wait for at least a year before you even get to see a therapist to talk about it.
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His comments about 'brainwashing' via hormone replaement therapy or puberty blockers ignore a simple inconsistency: if youth transgenderism is caused by prescribed hormones washing through the brain, then how is it that young transsexuals arise in the first place? By his arguments, they should be 'turned' by the floods of hormones naturally occurring in their bodies. All this man is is someone who has a lot of money to indulge his whims. His views on reality are similarly distorted by the fact that he has no connection with it.
Thanks for this link,
Thanks for this link, Gwendolyn - I've found it very useful. I've still to watch the entire series, but it's comforting that the programs are non-judgmental and open-minded.