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Hey there, it's Debbie.

Today's episode is a special re-release of a favorite conversation from the archives.

Unless you're a long time listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one before.

And even if you have, you just might get something completely different from it this time around.

One of the key takeaways that I taught to folks about with this work is that the really good news for parents is that if this is something your child is insistent, consistent, and persistent about the really clear and persistent about the fact that they have a need to behave in gender expansive ways or that they are not the gender that they were you believe they were based on their sex assigned at

birth that parents are enormous protective factors without parent support and

if parents are trying to change these key pieces of their kids identity again

out of out of understandable fear if parents try to change it then these kids

really really struggle.

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