"as such a parent" -- at least metaphorically speaking -- I'm certainly interested in emailing you about the "approach I have taken with regard to my child’s gender identity" -- if you're at all interested.
However, I think you need to specify -- in 25 words or less -- exactly what you mean by "gender identity". As I had requested in a co…
"as such a parent" -- at least metaphorically speaking -- I'm certainly interested in emailing you about the "approach I have taken with regard to my child’s gender identity" -- if you're at all interested.
However, I think you need to specify -- in 25 words or less -- exactly what you mean by "gender identity". As I had requested in a comment on a recent post of yours.
Seems to me that the crux of the matter is how children, how we all develop our senses of self, and how that process can go off the rails and into the weeds in so many ways. An absolutely awesome responsibility to shepard kids into a more or less functional adulthood -- the hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation. Which is maybe some reason to argue that too many "parents" have fallen down on the job or never showed up for it in first place.
But in any case, some reason -- in fact, many reasons -- to argue that gender identity may be somewhat akin to the imaginary friends that many have argued presaged, that were and are the harbingers of both religion and consciousness itself. For example, see:
"as such a parent" -- at least metaphorically speaking -- I'm certainly interested in emailing you about the "approach I have taken with regard to my child’s gender identity" -- if you're at all interested.
However, I think you need to specify -- in 25 words or less -- exactly what you mean by "gender identity". As I had requested in a comment on a recent post of yours.
Seems to me that the crux of the matter is how children, how we all develop our senses of self, and how that process can go off the rails and into the weeds in so many ways. An absolutely awesome responsibility to shepard kids into a more or less functional adulthood -- the hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation. Which is maybe some reason to argue that too many "parents" have fallen down on the job or never showed up for it in first place.
But in any case, some reason -- in fact, many reasons -- to argue that gender identity may be somewhat akin to the imaginary friends that many have argued presaged, that were and are the harbingers of both religion and consciousness itself. For example, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in_the_Breakdown_of_the_Bicameral_Mind
Something of a delicate operation to tenderly nurture that first spark.