Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:05 am, August 12th, 2022 - 3 commentsCategories: child welfare, health - Tags: CATA, cata conference posts, gender, gender identity, stella o'malleyGuest post by Harriet. She recounts a childhood growing up with gender dysphoria and dressing and presenting herself as a boy. Professionally Stella is well qualified to talk on clinical approaches to working with young people with gender dysphoria. One theory that has driven and dominated treatment approaches is gender identity theory (the belief that a gender identity lives within us all, like a gendered soul). Social transition around 16 years can be part of the adolescent phase of “trying on different hats.”But social transition, while Stella is o.k.

Source: The Times August 11, 2022 22:55 UTC