35 - Communicating About Gender: Translating Between Parent & Child

Gender: A Wider Lens

Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Mental Health

4.6 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We invite parents and children to listen to this episode together. Stella and Sasha alternate between the perspectives of the parent and their dysphoric child and attempt to translate what each may be thinking and feeling when communicating about gender identity becomes difficult. Discussing the emotions, the inner motivations, and the thoughts parents and children might experience when gender related distress hits the family, we hope that this episode might begin to build bridges between parents and young people and foster more empathy in the parent-child dyad.

Links

Cat Stephens: Father and Son https://youtu.be/P6zaCV4niKk

WB Yeats: The Mask http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/800/

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0:00.0	You're listening to gender, a wider lens.
0:04.0	I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland.
0:06.5	And I'm Sasha Ayad, an adolescent therapist in the United States.
0:10.6	Since 2016, my practice has been exclusively dedicated to gender questioning teens
0:16.1	and families impacted by gender dysphoria. I also work with gender questioning
0:20.7	teenagers and I facilitated support meetings for families and
0:24.2	individuals who have been impacted by gender issues. We're curious about the
0:28.1	concept of gender and how it's unfolding in the wider culture. Join us as we look at gender through a wider lens.
0:35.0	Hi, Cetia.
0:38.0	Hi, Stella, how's it going today?
0:40.0	Very good.
0:42.0	We're going off peest today. Very good. We're going off pieced today with our translations episode.
0:48.5	And the concept behind this is because so many parents have said to us, could you do one where we could we could listen
0:55.5	to the with our child we could listen together and maybe we could provide
1:01.4	understanding both from where the kid is coming from, the gender
1:04.8	does for a kid, where they're coming from, and gives some insight into that and at the same time
1:09.4	give some insight into where the parent is coming from because nobody's more important than anybody else in this world.
1:15.2	And so that's the grand plan for today's. Yeah, I mean I've noticed working with a lot of families that sometimes they almost need a translator because they're like well you know when my kid says this I'm trying to understand but I don't I don't know what they mean by that or I don't understand how they think that way And you know our goal today is for us to provide some
1:37.5	opportunities to have empathy for one another, you know, parents to have
1:41.0	greater empathy for the difficulty their child's going through
1:44.5	and for teenagers or young adults who might be listening to this to try and develop a
1:49.6	perspective of you know why do you why do your parents come from that perspective or why are your
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