Sentence examples for variant children from inspiring English sources

Mermaids is a support group for gender variant children and teenagers, and their families.

Mermaids Mermaids support gender variant children and teenagers as well as their families, providing a network of information, support and friendship for people who are in a similar situation and feel the same way.

His interviews yielded nearly 40,000 transcript pages and his "anti-Tolstoyan" conclusion that "the unhappy families who reject their variant children have much in common, while the happy ones who strive to accept them are happy in a multitude of ways".

Transgender and gender variant children, apparently, are a different story.

The GIC's application of its "developmental model" is divorced from important community resources and inconsistent with longitudinal follow-up data on outcomes of gender variant children.

The clinic assumed that all gender variant children need to be clinically "fixed" (i.e. they used coercive behavior modification on queer kids to make them act straight).

And some of these parents, under a doctor's supervision, have even begun to administer hormone blockers to prevent the arrival of secondary sex characteristics until a "gender variant" child is old enough to make permanent choices.

Studies are finally beginning -- one site will be at the Children's National Medical Center in DC, which specializes in gender-variant children, as we are slowly becoming less afraid of grappling with these issues.

For good measure, their e-mail included a link to information on gender-variant children.

Meredith Chivers once worked at the world's largest "clinic" for reparative therapy of gender-variant children, where they are busy revising the psychiatric manual that will catalog the latest "disorders" of women and sexual minorities.

Have therapists who counsel parents on this become more accepting of gender-variant children because of changes in society, or was it some kind of theoretical shift in the field of psychology?