Ken Zucker and FTM psychologist Hershel Russel discuss gender idenity in children

[call-me-rev.livejournal.com]

Interesting conversation with Ken Zucker from CAMH, a mother of a gender variant child and Hershel Russel, a trans male psychologist around the issue of gender variance in childhood. It's long, but at least check out around the 12:30 mark, where they discuss the controversy of GID diagnosis. Russel suggests replacing GID with Gender Expression Deprivation Disorder. The problem is not with trans people's genders, it's the anxiety that comes from not being able to express one's gender.

Also, great when Russel calls him and his clinic out for what they're actually doing- which is running a reparative therapy clinic.

edit: to fix typo