Just because kids are saying something doesn’t necessarily mean you accept it, or that it’s true, or that it could be in the best interests of the child.” He later added: “A four-year-old might say that he’s a dog – do you go out and buy dog food?” “It is possible that kids who have a tendency to get obsessed or fixated on something may latch on to gender. Zucker compared affirming models of care to buying dog food for kids engaging in anthropomorphic schoolyard play: However, this approach was recently criticized in a BBC documentary titled, Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? wherein a Disco Sexologist named Dr. Scholinski was diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder and confined to a mental institution that sought to convert him into a cisgender girl through makeup lessons and other gender-related “therapies.”Īlternatively, affirming therapeutic models offer a patient-therapist relationship wherein the patient’s gender isn’t problematized. In the previous installment, I interviewed radical feminist and pioneer in affirmative models of trans care, Arlene Lev. In this installment, I interview the author of the classic, The Last Time I Wore a Dress, Dylan Scholinski. Welcome to the eighth installment in this series on the rise and fall of Disco Sexology. Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook.
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