I pretty much agree. I've been trying to find out more about him and the clinic he works in and from what I've gathered they're clinging on to some really bad theories, their theories of course. The basic assumptions they have is that gender is malleable, boys can be raised as girls and transgendered girls should be raised as boys. The reason they should do this is to spare the children the pain of going through a sex change and from being ostracized both boys and girls or difficulty in forming future relationships. They view that as the worst thing someone can go through, and realigning their gender as children will spare them of that. Of course the treatments he recommends are traumatizing and creating a whole set of mental illnesses that will trouble them into adulthood. I mean it is clear the problem really doesn't go away, its just being covered up.

Children are amazingly accepting, even grown adults are. The worst thing parents can do is make their child uncomfortable with who they are, they are robbing them of the strength to handle adulthood. I believe anyone can be happy and accepted with enough confidence in who they are. Fuck being normal, some of the happiest people I know are "freaks" because they are just being themselves and were never taught to feel ashamed of themselves.

Err, anyway. Ken Zucker makes me mad, as do his colleagues. There are incredibly obvious flaws within their own work (ignoring all the outside research which has proven them wrong).

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