The Michael Berry Show I have received over the years a number of emails from parents who are

struggling with a child and some of them we've talked to on the air who is in a term that I didn't

know I'm 53 years old when I was in school this term didn't exist that is they are

struggling with the child who is in transition or considering

transition or they've just learned that the counselor at school is telling little

Tommy that he can be a girl or a little Susie that she can be a boy little that if you don't have a kid going through this, you might make an offhanded joke and you know it's funny or it's you know you don't invest a lot of emotion.

But when your child is going through anything, you don't want to separate from your child.

You don't want to disconnect from your child.

You don't want to be estranged from your child.

You want to be the best parent you can.

And sometimes that's tough

love rub some dirt in it and sometimes that's understanding sometimes that's

listening and I'm not a real touchy-feely guy but I'm probably a little more touchy

feeling now that that I'm older and I understand,

hey, you can't be the dad and mom that says we'll have nothing to do with you anymore

or you leave your kid to a system and an industry that in my opinion is very dangerous.

So with all that in mind, I had a listener send me a book entitled a practical guide to gender distress and look I

know what some of you are thinking I don't want to talk about boys trying to be

girls and girls I don't want to talk about boys trying to be girls and girls trying. I don't either. But the reality is it's happening and I have my reasons as to why I think it's happening. I think some people are being encouraged. I think there's some peer pressure. I think there's a lot to that but I wanted to have the

author of this book on to talk about this because this particular parent had read this

book and found it useful in dealing with her child.

And she's not authorized me to say her name or any other details and so I won't.

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