The suggestion that your child may commit suicide if you don't support them to transition is the cruellest threat to parents. Here Michael Biggs, Associate Professor of Sociology at Oxford, looks at the evidence for rates of suicide in trans teens.https://www.transgendertrend.com/suicide-by-trans-identified-children-in-england-and-wales/ …
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Parents can be supportive by loving their children and emphasizing that like drinking, driving, marriage, some irrevocable decisions are best delayed until they are adults. Perspectives change a lot between 12 and 21.
12:18 PM - 9 Oct 2018
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