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Mom Of 4 Daughters's avatar

Spot on—nicely framed. We have a ROGD 14yo daughter identifying as non-binary/transmale for the last 2 months (she discovered this online and on screen with the help of other “community (LGBTQ+)” friends during Covid lockdown. No prior mental health history, a kid who is excelling and enjoying life and completely flipping her narrative on gender identity with no prior inklings.

Question about family cohesiveness—our daughter’s three girl siblings have totally affirmed her social transition as has her large public high school. How can we be a family team while our other children our correcting our pronouns and referring to their new brother by ‘his’ new name at school and with our friends?

My husband and I are also physicians—we are committed to loving support of our child but are extremely leery of any medicalization. We couldn’t stop the social transition without completely losing her.

Thank you for sharing your pearls and perspective—a little light to pull us out of the despair.

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You are right. Families are forever. When a daughter identifies as male, it is hard for some mothers to deny reality and refer to their child as someone of the opposite sex.

It hurts. Some things just seem wrong.

In some cases the change is just a symptom of an underlying condition such as narcissism, autism, and possible other psychiatric conditions that are not being acknowledged.

I know that my child had psychological difficulties and was vulnerable to what clearly is a cult.

Without the internet, she would be free.

Sadly many of our young people are being led into self sterilisation, deceived by the internet glamorising of medicalisation.

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