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Psychiatrist notes increase in children’s use of transgender
Psychiatrist notes increase in children’s use of transgender as way to be different
Article by Felicity Nethery
A growing number of Australian children confused about sexuality are identifying as transgender as a way of “standing out,” according to a Brisbane psychiatrist.
Psychiatrist Dr Stephen Stathis, who runs a gender clinic at Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital said out of the 180 children with gender issues the clinic is expected to see, only a minority would be diagnosed with gender dysphoria — a strong, persistent feeling of identification with the opposite gender and discomfort with one’s own assigned gender.
Quote:Dr Stathis said for the majority of the gender clinic’s patients by the time they had reached puberty, most would identify as their birth gender. -
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Interesting issue. At least I don’t think it is really doing any harm. A decent psychologist should be able to pick things up before anything got to the point of ‘difficult’ return.
I can’t help but wonder that this is partly due to ‘transgender’ being at the top of the pyramid without all the other various titles getting any attention.
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Its seems that many many Doctors have this attitude of ” they will grow out of it …” – well it seems to me they do .They also adopt a ” wait and see ” position on the whole topic
blessings
SUzz
