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Gender: A Wider Lens

Premium: Another Parent Affirming My Child, but Not Affirming Their Own Child (Q&A)

Gender: A Wider Lens

Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6961 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:00.0

Okay, we're back with another question.

0:02.0

Stella, can you read it?

0:04.0

Yeah.

0:05.0

A friend of my daughters has identified as trans.

0:09.0

This girl is wearing binders and the mother doesn't know anything.

0:12.0

The mother is actually

0:13.2

entirely oblivious to the situation. However, this same mother is using my child's

0:17.8

preferred pronouns and she never checked with me if this was okay. She doesn't know anything about her child's

0:24.8

preferred pronouns even though everybody is using them apart from her. When do you

0:29.6

know how to open up this question and should you open up this conversation with another

0:35.2

parent. So it's kind of like a parent, it's almost like should you tell a parent that their child is identifying as

0:46.1

trans it's more than that because your own child is identifying as trans so

0:50.4

actually you could have a very productive quote there's there was an element of So actually I'm

0:55.0

I'm furious with this parent because she was no friend of mine.

0:58.0

She didn't do anything.

0:59.0

She didn't check in with me.

1:01.0

And I'd say, yeah, yeah, you're probably right about all that yeah yeah

1:04.4

seething rage and I'd also say however this could be very productive if it was

1:10.2

managed right if you follow me and so it's important to kind of you know the

1:16.0

way Winston Churchill says it's not enough to do your best sometimes you have to do

1:18.8

what's required I think you could really do something really quite good here but I not necessarily I it's so tricky these days you never know how somebody's going to respond so you can't

1:30.7

You can't open up this conversation with the presumption that somebody's going to slap their

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