By Mayo Clinic Staff — 2021
Understand the importance of talking with your child about gender identity and expression — and how to get the conversation started.
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One of life’s paradoxes is that we are encouraged to “be ourselves,” but are often punished when we do.
When I told my family I was trans, one of their initial reactions was, “But you’re so hairy! It’s going to be so difficult to remove all your hair to be a woman, so you should just give up.” They were zeroing in on my body hair as the barrier for me to be seen as feminine.
In a viral clip from the podcast “Man Enough,” the nonbinary poet and speaker said the gender binary hurts everyone—not just trans people.