Most gender non-conforming young people grow up to be gay or lesbian. So why are we treating them as though something is wrong with them? This is specifically an LGB issue and LGB Alliance has been saying so for years.
The research is consistent and has been for decades: the majority of children who present as gender non-conforming – who don’t fit neatly into social expectations of how boys and girls should be – grow up to be same-sex attracted adults. Happy. Well-adjusted. Gay.
That matters because the clinical response to these children has shifted dramatically. What was once watchful waiting, letting children develop naturally, has in many settings become active affirmation of a trans identity. The long-term consequences of that shift are not yet fully understood.
LGB Alliance does not oppose support for young people who are struggling. We oppose a system that tells a teenage lesbian she might be a boy and that medical intervention is the answer before anyone has asked whether she might simply be gay.
There is a word for the historical practice of telling gay and lesbian young people their identity needs to be corrected and that they need clinical intervention. We fought hard to stop it. We will not accept a new version of it.
Gay teens aren’t sick. They don’t need drugs or surgery. They need adults who will tell them the truth: being gay is not a problem to be solved. https://t.co/HizhksDdBs
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