Diane Ehrensaft, a director at the UCSF Benioff Children's hospital, claims kid can identify as a transgender 'Tootsie Roll pop' and there are 'infinite' identities.
Diane Ehrensaft is director of mental health and chief psychologist at the University of California-San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital gender development center. Genders listed by Ehrensaft included,"Pangender Youth,""Protogay Children,""Prototransgender Youth,""Gender Teslas,""Gender Ambidextrous Children," and"Gender Smoothies.
". Fox News Digital first reported that the clinician believes kids can be"gender hybrids," which include a mythology-inspired creature called a"gender Minotaur," and that kids can change their genders by season and can have different identities depending on their location. gender identity disorder"We need to wait and see, how about until adolescence, and not jump to premature conclusions about a child['s] [gender identity]."She also claimed that if a child is simultaneously struggling with his or her gender in addition to other psychiatric issues, those issues are caused by society. "If present, individual psychological/psychiatric problems are often secondary to negative interpersonal and cultural reactions to a child," she said."It is not for us to say, but for the children to tell [what their genders are]." Proponents of the affirming model argue that it is"life-saving." However, European countries such as Sweden, Norway and Finland have distanced themselves from its use in minors, citing limited research. Fox News Digital recently reported that children being treated with hormones for gender issues were presenting in theA military family medicine doctor, David Klein, found in a study reviewing Department of Defense pharmacy and billing records that children taking psychotropic medication had their prescriptions increased after"gender-affirming care" was initiated. It also found that transgender kids treated on the"affirming" pipeline had co-morbid psychiatric diagnoses, such as bipolar disorder, and some were taking anti-psychotic drugs as treatment. After the study was published, the family medicine doctor appeared to distance himself from its findings, saying that when treatments were"optimized" – with surgeries and more hormones – diagnoses such as schizophrenia could"melt away" over time. Diane Ehrensaft is a medical school professor at UCSF and a director of a gender program at the Benioff Children's Hospital.
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