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Welcome to Raising Good Humans.

I'm Dr. Eliza Pressman, and today's episode is with a brother and sister team.

They are also colleagues, but they're so incredible

and our conversation went in a much deeper direction than I anticipated, which is such an honor because

they're not making me edited out.

We're talking today about gender, sexuality, really understanding language around issues that are so hard

for parents to talk about, yet so important for children to be able to feel safe and seen and heard by their families so that they can be in a protected space in a world that may or may not be so protective.

And I was so grateful because I'm asking some questions

that are somewhat basic for a lot of people who are immersed in this work and yet it's a

topic that's really confusing for other people so I wanted to ask all the questions that I could to get information and knowledge and wisdom and I got so much more.

So a little bit about them, Dr. Nia Herd Garris is a pediatrician and physician investigator

at the Anne and Robert H. Lorry Children's Hospital of Chicago

and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics

at Northwestern University,

she examines the influence of social adversity's experienced in childhood

and subsequent child and adolescent health.

She's award-winning. She's not only a very active member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She actually serves as the chair and founding member of the Provisional Section of Minority equity and inclusion. Dr. Hurt Garris is also a recipient of the Robert

with Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Fellowship at the University of Michigan and she in addition to her MD has a

Masters of Science in Health and Healthcare Research and she's just awesome and

the mother of six-year-old son. And Dr. Nevin Heard is an assistant professor of

clinical counseling at Roosevelt University and has served as a nationally certified counselor and has

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