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Children who struggle to match their gender identity with their biological sex should not be pushed into transgender therapies, but given treatments that help treat the underlying cause of the dysphoria, said doctors in the field.
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Lisa Marchiana, A Licensed Clinical Social Worker, discusses the trend of rapid onset gender dysphoria. Read the article here.
Films will now compete in the same categories as TV series too, as MTV shakes up its ceremony, saying its audience ‘doesn’t see male-female dividing lines.’
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A new study published by French and US researchers might give you one more reason to cut down the time your kid spends playing video games.
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“A lot of the time, dating apps make some pretty unfair assumptions about exactly who you’re looking for, and sometimes even who you are. While some dating apps are set up to match men with men or women with women and different combinations of that, a lot of dating apps aren’t set up for the reality of who’s using them.” Read the full article here.
Pink for girls. Truck motifs for boys. A growing number of parents want to get outside those parameters when it comes to dressing their kids.
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Harvest USA helps us think through an understanding of transgender issues.
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An Oregon court ruling officially allowed a formerly transgender person to choose neither sex this week. Read the article here.
The creators of “The Sims” are opening up gender customization options for the first time in the long-running history of the popular life simulation video game.
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Researcher Mark Yarhouse on why mixing politics and gender identity has only left us more confused.
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The Obama administration will issue guidance on Friday directing public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms matching their gender identity.
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The American College of Pediatricians has released an in-depth report stating that the move to indoctrinate children with the idea that they can pick their gender amounts to child abuse.
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Michigan’s State Board of Education has drafted a guidance that would push the state’s schools to allow all students, regardless of parental or doctoral input, to choose their gender, name, pronouns, and bathrooms.
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How comfortable are young people when it comes to talking about sex? MTV Knowing Youth asks this question and more as part of a recent survey.
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Feminists and frat boys, asexuals, groupies, and that quiet kid who sits in the front row. A weeklong survey of what it means to be young and in lust (or asexual or aromantic) in 2015.
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From the article: “The Gender Flipping trend began as a meme in the comic book world wherein cartoonists, tired of overly sexualized representations of female superheroes, began redrawing male characters in analogous poses to highlight the inherent absurdity.”
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A quarter of undergraduate women surveyed at more than two dozen universities say they experienced unwanted sexual contact sometime during college.
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Students at a high school in St. Louis protested after a transgender student was told they could use the women’s restroom and locker room. Read the article here.
New research discovers early adolescent girls lose friends for having sex and gain friends for “making out,” while their male peers lose friends for “making out” and gain friends for having sex.
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Brands and policy makers are beginning to abandon the longstanding polarities that maintained gender-based attitudes. Read the article here.