How to explain transgender to a child, according to TammyPlunkett (spoiler: it's not hard!)
When my son told me he was transgender at 11 years old, I wasn’t sure what he meant. It’s not because I have lived under a rock—I am an educated woman, a former registered nurse, and this was my third of four children. I wasn’t even new to parenting. But I was frozen in place byYou see, I automatically equated transgender with surgical procedures. And, I am ashamed to say, it also brought to mind late 80s tabloid talk shows on cross-dressing.
Gender isn’t about body parts. Yes, we assign a gender to our kids at birth once we confirm the body parts between their legs, but gender is more about our. Gender is also not about sexuality. At all. So, there is no reason to put off talking about gender with your children until high school because there will be no ‘birds and bees’ talk to include in the conversation. You can talk about gender with kids as young as three years old.
Since gender identity is formed as early as between three and seven years old, waiting until after grade 5, or worse, high school health class, toIgnoring that transgender people exist doesn’t make things better for anyone. Kids are smart, and if you purposefully avoid discussing something, they will assume the topic is bad or off limits. We risk teaching them there’s something inherently bad about gender diversity by omission.
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