The Needs of Gender-Variant Children and Their Parents: A Parent Survey

The Needs of Gender-Variant Children and Their Parents: A Parent Survey

Published in: International Journal of Sexual Health. 2011. Authors: Elizabeth Anne Riley, Gomathi Sitharthan, Lindy Clemson, Milton Diamond.

“The results of this study support the development of affirmative approaches in supporting gender-variant children and their parents. This is particularly evidenced by the parents’ own approaches to supporting their children where parents experimented with different ways of responding to various scenarios and realized that acceptance of their child was the only option as they learned that their child’s need for expression was not changed by their attitude or management of the behavior.”

http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2010to2014/2011-gender-variant-children.html