Blog to follow with the implications for UK Children's Gender Services, but for now, here's a wonderful overview from @MavenOfMayhem of new American Academy of Pediatrics Guidance advocating (surprise surprise) Gender Affirmative Care for trans children
"Accordingly, research substantiates that children who are prepubertal and assert an identity of TGD know their gender as clearly and as consistently as their developmentally equivalent peers who identify as cisgender and benefit from the same level of social acceptance."
"This developmental approach to gender affirmation is in contrast to the outdated approach in which a child’s gender-diverse assertions are held as “possibly true” until an arbitrary age (often after pubertal onset) when they can be considered valid ie “watchful waiting.”
"This outdated approach does not serve the child because critical support is withheld. Watchful waiting is based on binary notions of gender in which gender diversity and fluidity is pathologized; in watchful waiting, it's assumed gender identity becomes fixed at a certain age."
@TaviAndPort You should be ashamed of the harm that you continue to cause with your 'watchful waiting' approach - an approach that the American Academy of Pediatrics calls "outdated".
