Transgender Tide

A professor at the University of Louisville says he lost his job for advising parents to help their children embrace their birth sex

A little over two years ago, I wrote an article about the growing push to affirm transgenderism in children and teenagers. National Geographic had just published an issue praising the movement, and featured a cover photo of a 9-year-old boy dressed like a girl.

Ken Zucker, a secular psychologist in Canada, had recently lost his longtime position at a mental health center in Toronto for suggesting parents should try to help confused children become secure with their birth sex.

During that time, I spoke with Allan Josephson, a professor and psychiatrist at the University of Louisville, who offers similar counsel. He told me Zucker’s firing had been “an incredibly sobering experience for many professionals to see.” Many realized: “If that could happen to him, perhaps it could happen to me.”

Two years later, Josephson says it’s no longer a hypothetical scenario. Read More

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From a number of articles that I read, I have gained the impression that in many cases it may be the child's parents that are causing the child's gender-identity confusion, subtly and not so subtly giving the child the message that he or she is of the wrong gender biologically and really is girl or boy as the case may be. When working with children as a social worker, my coworkers and I concluded that this frequently appeared to be the case. Encouraging gender-identity confusion in a child was a means of gratifying unmet psychological needs in the parent or caregiver. Transgender activists, however, have sought to stifle research into the parents' contribution to gender-identity confusion since it does not fit with their ideas.