Episode 191 -"Kids and Transgender – What the Medical Data Shows, Part 1" Guest: Irene Ericksen and Mary Anne Mosack

Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker

Dr. Meg Meeker

Kids & Family, Education, Parenting, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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You won’t want to miss this episode! Dr. Meeker brings in some experts to talk about kids and transgender issues. They discuss what the medical data shows not just nationally, but worldwide. Irene Ericksen is a Senior Research Associate at The Institute for Research & Evaluation, an agency known for its work evaluating school-based sex education for over 25 years. She has recently completed a review of the research on key questions about gender identity confusion in adolescents. Mary Anne Mosack is the President/CEO of Ascend, a national organization empowering youth to make healthy choices about sex, relationships, and marriage through Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) education. She is a developer of Ascend’s nationally recognized Sexual Risk Avoidance Certification Course credentialing over 3,000 SRA educators across America. Both ladies bring a plethora of information regarding this topic. Mary Anne Mosack: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AscendSRA Website: https://weascend.org/ www.institute-research.com Thanks for listening to Episode #191, Kids and Transgender – What the Medical Data Shows, Part 1 and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than SEVEN MILLION downloads! Please subscribe, rate and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook & Instagram @MegMeekerMD Check out Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools! www.meekerparenting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What it comes to transgender issues, there is no neutral ground.
0:10.5	People are either respond with anger or intense defense of it.
0:15.1	This makes sense because while we'd like to think it's not a big deal and it's just
0:18.4	another medical issue, the truth is it isn't.
0:22.1	Well, today we're going to talk with Irene Erickson from the Institute for Research and
0:26.5	Evaluation and Mary Ann Mosack, president of Ascend.
0:30.8	We're going to put aside religious, moral, and ethical considerations for transitioning
0:35.2	kids and deal directly with the medical aspects of it.
0:40.0	Irene Erickson is a researcher that works for the Institute for Research and Evaluation.
0:45.5	Her job is to review hundreds of the best medical papers on any given topic.
0:51.6	We presented her research today on transgender in kids, and her paper that we reviewed
0:57.6	is transgender research.
1:00.0	Five things every parent and policymaker should know.
1:04.7	Mary Ann Mosack is the president of Ascend.
1:07.8	It's a nonprofit organization that equips and unites the national sexual risk avoidance
1:13.5	feel to empower youth to make healthy decisions about sex, relationships, and merit.
1:19.5	SRA, sexual risk avoidance is an approach to sex education based on primary prevention
1:26.0	and established public health model used to promote wellness and eliminate risk.
1:32.0	We're going to be addressing transitioning children, not adult.
1:37.0	I think it's very important to understand what the medical data shows about transitioning kids.
1:43.4	Here's our conversation.
1:45.1	Well, I've been looking forward to this podcast for a long time because we're going to be
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