The Medicalization of Identity
When my son was about five years old a little boy in our homeschool coop and hiking club wore long hair, and loved to play with the girls. He sometimes wore dresses. This boy preferred my daughters and the other girls in the coop to playing with other boys. No one worried about it, the kids played. One day at coop the little boy had a new name, and became a little girl. My son was very shook up about this. He was five years old and expressed...