I watched the segment of Dr. Oz that was posted somewhere on Facebook. I think he handled it pretty well, especially for a tv show.

This isn’t saying there aren’t some children who have self-doubts or questions about their gender identity, but even those children need to room to explore and determine for themselves the right direction. Their innate sense of being is far better, as you’ve seen, than the adults who want “to do the right thing for them.”

If they did, why doesn’t the child improve when they prevent the child from expressing themselves? Why does this often lead to self-hate, self-isolation, behavioral problems, depression and even suicide? But then why does the child become happy and comfortable with themselves when they have the choices, support and freedom?

They simply are themselves and not trying to act to their parents interests, or worse, suppressing themselves until later in life. This I know. Sadly, there are a lot of older people who transistion, or not, are happy today’s kids have the opportunity and sad it’s too late for them. The childhood and young years they could have had, missed.

I wonder why the shows want parents who’s view conflict with their children, except as you note, to help ratings. They can’t fix bad parent-child relationships with one show, so why put it before the public? Everything isn’t Dr. Phil’s one-minute talk solution to any problem (sorry, his show on transgender children had a religious zealot against it as one of the “experts”).

Anyway, it was great to see one grinning and bubbly young girl and a happy teenager represent transchildren, and Dr. Oz being informative with a supportive pediatrician providing good information. That’s the show which could have used the whole time.

But the way I understand the Dr. Oz show has a segment with two transgender kids tomorrow (Thursday).

People forget that ice skating and ballet are two endearvors where there is little difference in the preparation and training for performances, only the limitations of the body and the expression (style) are different. We’re also biased by our own expectations to see grace for women and power for men, forgetting both expresss both, only the details are different. Look at male ballerinas and you see the differences isn’t in their dance, but in our perception of them as men.

Shirley Anne xxx