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Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Exposing children to gender identity concepts at an early age can lead them to firmly latch onto these ideas, making it challenging to reconsider their beliefs, despite the broader context of the underlying causes of their distress. Gender identity often serves as a metaphor for broader developmental processes, such as individuation, which are typical in adolescence. However, the expansive and all-encompassing nature of gender identity frameworks can oversimplify and misrepresent a child's intricate emotions and experiences. Much like interpreting one's life through a horoscope, these broad frameworks can obscure the true nature of adolescent distress. This issue is compounded by the capture of legal, educational, and medical institutions, which can entrench ephemeral adolescent pain into irreversible bodily modifications.
In this bonus episode for premium subscribers, Maia:
-Highlights the potential difficulties children and adolescents face when grappling with natural gender nonconformity.
-Critiques the process of informed consent for medical transitions as being particularly complex, involving the lack of emphasis on concerns about long-term health consequences and the potential for exacerbated psychological distress.
-Reflects on her experience of war being an extreme stressor that profoundly impacted her perception of her own gender identity.
-Offers insights from her analytical paper exploring the phenomenon of transgender identification among young people, comparing trends in the United States with those in Israel, highlighting the differences in how these trends manifest in secular versus religious environments.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Widerlens Podcast listener. What you're about to hear is a preview of one of our bonus |
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| 0:26.0 | A lot of liberal parents are under the misconception, you know, they think they've made it |
| 0:30.0 | extremely obvious to their kids that like, being gay is okay you know some men |
| 0:35.2 | fall in love with men and others you know and some women fall in love with women and |
| 0:39.7 | this is fine and will love you no matter what. And so parents, I think, come to the false understanding |
| 0:45.0 | that because they have told their kids this |
| 0:48.4 | and made this disclaimer of unconditional love, |
| 0:51.9 | that if the kid declares a trans identity at that point, |
| 0:55.0 | that it has nothing to do with internalized homophobia. |
| 0:58.0 | Because, you know, the parents think we've done everything right. |
| 1:01.0 | We've made it clear to our kids that will love them no matter what. |
| 1:05.2 | But the truth is that, you know, there is such an inherent like kind of deep-rooted shame of, you know, one one just having a teenage sort of romantic and sexual |
| 1:16.6 | awakening it's destabilizing it's odd and especially if you have a more like |
| 1:21.6 | intellectual child, |
| 1:23.5 | whether or not you want to ascribe those intellectual traits |
| 1:26.2 | to something like, you know, a set of autistic or ADHD |
| 1:29.3 | traits, I think at that point it becomes kind of irrelevant. |
| 1:32.0 | If you have a kid with a certain type of like |
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