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good morning I’m Jim meadows in your listening to an encore broadcast of a previous focus

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focus program for not taking calls this hour but will be back live on Monday

live on Monday at 10 a.m. Wyll AM 580 today

today is National Coming Out Day created to support lesbians gays b********

b******** transgender people choose to live their lives open like today we’re looking at an entire

looking at an entire family that come out as they put it come out as a family with a transgender child

Sarah and Michael live in champaign-urbana have 2 children what form is transgender

transgender the vastus not to use their last names but they do want to share their story

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story of joining us also is Marco Hildalgo use a clinical psychologist in the gender

the gender and sex development program a division of adolescent medicine at the end and Robert H

Robert H lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago clinica de works at is

what is the only one in Illinois that works with transgenders kids in the gender for me

Marco welcome to focus thank you Jim and welcome to the program Sara and Michael

thank you so much for having us Michael ansara tell me a little bit about your oldest child and

oldest child Enya  um Daniels incredible kid he

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is very sensitive to the needs of others and nurturing as overall to his

overall to his little brother into friends he’s a little bit on the side side to be call him an introvert

introverts very athletic kinesthetic and any kind of sports

kind of sports and an all of her well rounded 8 year olds in every way

and every way he wasn’t always stand correct when he was born

porn he was born we came up with the name 935 very proud of that name in religion

Naaman really to Connor Eminem to him but I didn early age

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when he could start figure out what you want to wear what you wanted to do you start a goat in towards

towards boy clothes that you can pick out a good always choose a male swimsuit heat

tutti you we we went round and round about this and want to just wear swim trunks

monks of from early on he would try to pee standing up an

and he was really interested in sharing his time with his voice

boyfriend boys that were friends and wanted to do all the things that they were doing

where do it wasn’t interested in hanging with the girls and

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he’s definitely more balance now and shares a variety of friends but it is

what is it for the long as we can remember when he started to have the choices clothing goes he was

he was choosing a masculine clothing what is there a certain

Sarah certain point we’re on the clothes you in this wasn’t just a quirk are a phase

are a phase but really um um um of a major situation

majors at UA sinister how your child felt yeah uh I mean there was that say that

let’s say the time to really helps is a little bit over your go on really realized what

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what to if we had to pull a blunt with silver for not going on he is Daniel

I’m sorry you turn transgender Peter lead to put them in a box but he is just Daniel

is about your goat weed really figured out that he want to be considered a boy

little boy I’m over it was really in a large part 2 are friends on that really helped us

really help us see what we’re doing with time pepper take your situation that had occurred is

what is um we had once again encountered a situation where someone mistook

1 mystic Daniel for inside your son your son and at the time

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and at the time I Mike and I were correcting people and say nose is my daughter and we get funny looks

funny looks all the time and so we went home after one of those situations I ask Daniel I say

Daniel I said I don’t want you to ever feel awkward in these situations when people

when people when Im correcting people what do you want me to do what you want me to correct people

and say my daughter or do you want me to just say yes my son

my son and he said I want you to say I’m a boy and that’s who I feel like I am

feel like I am and so very clearly at that starred dining room table

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dining room table we had a very a in-depth conversation about his feelings

his feelings and he was so articulate in expressing his house always felt

how is always felt this way how is always felt like a boy and he feels like he’s in the wrong

feel like you’re in the wrong body and he wants to be called by boy names so

dining room table that night we came up with Daniel which is

is a little bit of it comes from Michaels grandfather and Michaels middle name

middle name and so we wanted to keep some connections 2

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into um important name and it was the name of middle name with Daniela

Daniela so we took that shorten dead just fit right at the same time release

why I’m really impressed at a very seems to have been very certain and just Ferry Rd

just very articulate about about his feelings about who he is

and that’s really Gatos realize what we’re doing with because the way he spoke about it

he spoke about it we could tell he had been internalized this conversation for years

but it isn’t something that we just had a conversation this night of a son he’s choosing today

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today I want to be a boy today know the way he was talking the way he was responding to the

Finding to the questions that she made a very Crispin something an ongoing for years

is been processing in trying to deal with Virginia was ready to go full speed ahead

the hat with telling everybody time is school telling his friends telling family

family and letting them know that I know now and I want to be called a boy

boy and so we went to the school the very next day with plan to talk to

talk to the head of the school Kathy Weber um at Countryside and

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and if we didn’t get a chance to talk to her but daniel is a ball of nerves

nerves and he being shy cat daddy is he still was still something so strong

strong and big in him that he went and spoke to her himself and his

what is at the first opportunity he had he sit down with her and he said I feel like a boy

I feel like a boy I want to be call Daniel and um we’re just so proud of you

just so proud of him for being able to express himself so clearly

so clearly a 2 in adults which is often very intimate meaning for him

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for him I’m wondering what you were feeling and thinking affect the time um

um no I understand you both a background in psychology and social work so you must haves

steps to take if you have some stuff for military with working with family issues

what is your own family issues so why how how was it for you

if it weren’t here again she was so ready to come out once we figured out

120 cigarette out what this was a movie when he was ready full steam ahead I know serenite WI

Fahrenheit we were still like trying to catch up and can’t figure it all out of our heads

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I get a Bena social work in cycles backgrounds we always view the more as that

how he was a lesbian with younger always in o7 pictures of marrying a nice beautiful

nice beautiful woman sushi when I stress and gun dancing girls

gundamn for girls so we define as lesbian im as soon as it happened on iOS

IOC the first chance I had to process whats the song was and how to clean with contract

Direct was when I went back to school after dinner came out as principal

and I sit down with her and she just says no Dana from the room

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the room you said he’s a boy is going to call dentist for going to do and for me that was my moment of just

adjust while it’s going to be a snot is right for process iPod into have the school

when to have the skull behind this like that I was able to start crying in front of Kathy Weber and not really

that was my first got to start processing of myself Kathy Weber is the head of the

the head of the countryside school and speaking with friends who really

really how to make the connect the dots hear about what could be going on with Daniel

Daniel and that putting a name to the to this that maybe

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that may be Daniels transgender and just having the outpouring of support for my friends

guns and family it’s Ben its been overwhelmingly incredible and

ball and we feel very fortunate because we know the road is not always easy for these kids

kids I think the one piece to is that even as a backup restore

restorable Austin to know what to do I was able to throw some college to work

how to work able to find out about the up center and we were able to contact Kevin who is head of the Apes

as head of center and without his support will never get through this as a family and

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and just a feeling something a little bit more the up center of Champaign County Assessor

is a is an organization which provide support for for gays lesbians trance

lesbians transgender people of b******** exactly exactly offer support groups for

support groups for families in just one on one um meeting stew

things to talk about over and they were there a mediately um just as

as a support group 2s and listening to us helping us navigate how to

Gate how to proceed in how to communicate with our school to get Daniels needs Matt so that everyone

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so that everyone felt comfortable and Daniel felt safe and is Kevin

and is Kevin put it to I said it was not just Daniel coming out but it was our

who was our family coming out and not really has resonated with us overall and width

rauland with my kids parents who were at the school the day that we shared with

that we shared with the teachers of what had been going on and how we were going to

who talk to the students in his class about Daniel Island

land of make the transition be known so it really was

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it really wasn’t it was the morning process for us a good morning the loss of

the loss of our daughter and all that we had a maginze for her life

what life was going to be like for her what you do is a parents and so we had to

so we had to recalibrate we had to think of things different think of all the different

think of all the different possibilities but concerns of who’s going to love my child who is

who is going to understanding be accepting of my child um are things I still strong

things I still struggle with but I feel so much more confident now than I did in the beginning

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beginning and have come we all have come a long way as a family in our understanding of

um of this this is focus mg medicine for talking with my

talking with Michael and Sara parents of a transgender child and with Marco Duncan clinic

clinical psychologist with E and Robert H lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago works

works of transgender youth you can call us with your comments and questions are phone number toll free

number toll free is 1 800 222 9455 Harney mail addresses

email addresses will dash talk at illinois.edu Michael

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Marco’s algo im you for listening all this time im in some way sounds like

sounds like a really really simple clear cut the decision

decision making process I gathered doesn’t work that way with everybody

FFA Louis right first of all I think from what I’ve heard

what I’ve heard photos from Michael and Sara I just want to come and you both on the approach

the approach that you can really affirming Daniel to be true to size

to Daniels gender self I think that’s really important eyes of the other

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some of the other things I heard it Daniela speak becoming an continuing to develop into

who develop into a really well adjusted child as I feel safe and hooch

and who he has a couple other things I think that are really unique

unique and some ways eyes to your situation but also incredibly hot

positive is the example of how you know your child

child how your situation is just a lot easier to navigate when there are people

when there are people from the school when there are people who are your friends for supportive

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order of this process really confusing for parents and for kids

I think the fact that you’re and Champaign Urbana

app to spell some ass that I’ve ever been or rural communities

communities arm progressively minded people there that are thinking about

King about gender health of cats so I thank you thank you

thank you I jump to get to your question I think you’re right there’s a whole lot of variation in terms of what

terms of what we see I come to work on Mac im any of the family

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many of the families are you having them questions just like us Sarah articulate

Sarah articulated a few months ago I sometimes concerns sometimes feelings of grief

feelings of grief but nonetheless are really trying to understand their child

there’s always that sort of a bottom line a red thread out

where in every family regardless of how much confusion there might be

are we meeting family filter very clear that there’s so much love

love between parent and child I have to work all is really to help them

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relate to help them try to understand I was a child coming from and

and I think also part of our jobs around Education because so much of what we know

what we know about gender development

and we live in a fairly odd binary kind of society

the fighting when it comes to the gender options in categories that we have to choose from now saying that

housing that children are expressing a degree fluidity in a very healthy

adopted way but that I challenging for many folks

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maybe you maybe we can not talk about some of the terms here because I think we already talked about

already talked about the difference when you were talking about wondering if your child was going to grow up

what’s going to grow up as as a lesbian which is a difference ink from a kid

gender identity so how to talk about the saying well I’m happy to

what to give sort of I think a very I’m brief but I think im portant kind of

kind of terminology a background first of all I think that the idea of lesbian and gay

lesbian gay bisexual does fall under the category of sexual orientation

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sometimes referred to a sexual identity which is basically be the gender of

Vijender to which you are most attracted to sexually or romantically

romantically or intimately the three different gender identity force acts out of

ulcer to talk about facts and then gender and two aspects of gender that that we

that that we all have our gender identity under pressure

the first person sex for first to their physical and out of me

which is used to determine a baby’s gender at birth sometimes referred to as

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Nadal gender Elon Musk aces the presence of a penis indicates a

make a fake noodle gender of male and the presence of a vagina with Enrique tomato gender

gender of female gender identity is different if the

how to psychologically rooted Airport internal components of each other

parkour sense of being either male female bows

iPhone or something else the two aspects of gender identity to keep in mind that

reminder that won its internal invisible to others and

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and if there for determined by the individual another word for the term in Bible

the term in by parents here’s the clothes if someone wears

I got the toys 1 place 1 place with a lot of note

note people typically have a pretty solid sensitive gender identity by about 86 Anamosa

most cases of identity will match their birthday sign gender are there male gender

gender I’m every SMAN about Andy’s exclamations

Masons are not completely accurate estimate about 1500 cases

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cases if identity does not match 1980 gender

about gender identity that when we think about it and I mention that usually

that usually 5886 people tend to know but I’ve we also

we also see that gender identity can develop even after 86 times in adolescence

adolescence to adulthood  sewing into a gender expression

expression which is either affect gender in Manchester essentially how we externalizare

externalizare gender in order to communicate are gender people begin

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begins at around h2 and that’s something that might I think you mention that you were noticing

several years ago you begin to notice eyes Daniels gender

gender expression that was notable expression can come before the firm

for the firm idea of identity absolutely an expression at that age can help

can help a child I mean it’s sort of a clue for many parents and I have a clue

who that there may be some internal gender identity

maybe different than an adult under eye what I want to say that’s not always the case

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the case of gender nonconformity we can’t conflate gender expression with gender identity

gender identity important because gender expression it’s not always indicative

indicative of gender identity  um mica

Michael and Sara I was wondering from something you something you were talking about earlier and Justin

and just of the fact that in some ways you you you missed the daughters

the daughter to the dental Houston the Daniel used to be your sources a feather but you were

what you were expecting Daniel Dennett Daniel Chevron station

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the station listening to the broadcasters something you’ve talked over with yeah before you die doing

forget I do I think Marco 240 said to both Fahrenheit and thank you for the work you doing up in Chicago Marcos

Chicago Marco it really is helping families like us navigate to System much is urine sterile

what you doing I’m glad to hear that um so yeah

yeah im he has expressed Himself to us he he gets um what he’s been

what he spend with been through what is been like for us um he’s been able to express a boat in writing

recipe in writing and robitussin how much appreciated said they were very open communicative

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communicative family so we probably be accused of talking to death with him

should I stay with him and how was your day I see 915 different ways of

um but when it came to seeing the name name

the name Niamh up around his room and an artwork that was around the house in just

just off in the beginning it was really hard for me I got very emotional over it

over it and I would share with him how I was feeling that I’m so proud of him and I Thai

what I want him to be exactly who he is because what realizes

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relies most important is helping him build his confidence and he has

he has to go threw up something that most kids don’t and life is full

is full of challenges as it is in your address on top where you are

on a daily basis Hwy he was questioning which bathroom cycle in which line should I fit in

should I fit into having to answer those questions and confusion

confusion and just died heart how difficult that must be for him

him um but we sure did we talked about it he was able to talk about it

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talk about that he was a little sad umm the likes his name nyeema and

and that he was a little sad about it too but um

I felt like  all you know all the communicative

communicating redoing is encouraging his self esteem and his expression and

fashion and um and that that’s just are ultimately old is parents is

princes to help him be confident 430 exciting lately is that

is that from this is been a really help a transition for Daniel and one things

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and one things we’ve been trying to come up with the middle name form of the fours name is my name is daniella sounds for

yellow sauce for steamed Daniel and I asked him what do you think about keeping your first name is your middle name

is your middle name you know how does it feel to using my email is your middle name and he was incomplete

who was incomplete support of it and I really show me that we had done things correctly

correctly is crackers we could have to support him to make him feel comfortable serious

set sounds like you recognize some important and taking time to adjust to process this transition

transition not just saying well that dont look back or anything like that but to remember

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what to remember everything exactly yes it was a process and not just for us

prosperous in a family members that have a processor to an even friends and it wasn’t about nothing

about not supporting Denon who he was about that we all have to be to change our view

change our view what things are going to look like in the future and a big concern is no special speaking from

speaking for my father is that his toe concerns is the suicide rate depression

depression homelessness of Rochester Pacific Beach transgender

is gender kids and how difficult is going to be as it gets older and that’s a question mark

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question maybe Marco you can feel a sin then this is what we’re talking about a child who seems to have

seems to have a lot of support is he going to be better off when it comes to those sodas

does soda statistical um of scary things happening out there

happening out there as far as as far as later in life absolutely have what we know from

no from some research that come out studying actually family acceptance related

related to gender identity an expression is that typically associated with a lot more

with a lot more protective factors including self esteem a positive self esteem

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self esteem social support which is really important so many ways Andover Ohio

an overall health and early adulthood and when there is an absence

about support or there is a rejection or from other family members

family members or piers in the school we really see a downward Kaskade

cascade of a whole lot of psychosocial cities that out my command chance so depressing

depressive symptoms of low life satisfaction salacion self harm

self harm Homosassa as he mention I post traumatic stress

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trav 50 and and and some cases suicide ality

I’m wondering a barcode with other people that you work with

what are the other families that come to you that I may be on more socially conservative

conservative on the on the issue of a transgender that maybe our bar

maybe might be hoping that you can change something  you know we haven’t seen

we haven’t seen a whole lot of families who were hoping to change anything RR or under the eye

under the impression that we do corrective for repair in Arabic how we do it

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how we do it count as a family is fat really don’t understand a man really have

really have questions sometimes parents who are angry about

the situation safe and placed and where they have to explain their child

child’s gender expression to others I sometimes parents who are angry about

angry about the fact that their child’s gender fluidity my change from jpay today

daytoday and I really want to understand that and I want to echo something that Michael

think that Michael you mention I think it’s really important and something I talk to parents about all the time

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the time which is absolutely fine too I really need space

need space to process a thing as happily find to have the feeling that you do

do about what can be very challenging at first and important

importance of that is to be able to talk about it with someone like me I can do so

a privately and family session where the child is not present because apparel

because apparently could benefit from being able to talk about this thing and I think parents have to know that

how to know that the talk about those things as challenges in my face doesn’t make you a bad parent

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parent doesn’t mean that you’re not accepting 11 child to a family make you high

make you a lot stronger because there’s so many things are going to have to advocate

child have regarding an and I think its N Out many parents

how to find the voice 307 I have an email in from a from Kimberly

from Kimberly thanks you for your courage and has a question for the both of us what is vine

what is vice would you have for other parents and children to navigate through Society

through societies insistence on gender role enforcement  the question

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big question I don’t know if there’s one easy answer and I know it

if I look at my background and I’m coming from Holocaust survivors I’m coming from Silverado

man from civil rights movement of participating is my father was in one thing I know it

one thing I know is that if we dont speak up nothing’s going to change in that I know ur car

I know were caught up right now Society of you know what a man is what a woman should dress how to

how to act  bottom of the sea not in our society were not happy

overall society in something’s going on at the disconnect and

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and my suggestion Merrick nations we need to stand up and support people bad do

do want a pendant with those rose a little bit and come up against rolls

MBTA route means we need to speak up means we can just sit back if someone’s been persecuted

made fun of it back and let them handle in ther battle that we have an album

we have an obligation as a society to speak up in support hose I don’t have a strong voice

voice at really does come on over to sight in a community and i know were capable of doing it

capable of doing it but we need to remember to do it and something that I got

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easy thing to do but it starts with one person

we’re going to take a short break and will be back in a moment for conversation with mic

Michael and Sara about life with transgender son psychologist Marco Hidalgo

Asus focus on wyll good morning I’m Jim meadows

Jim Meadows this is focus in wyll you listening to an encore broadcast of APRI

cast of a previous focus program why were not taking calls this or you can join

can join a conversation on Facebook and Twitter at focus 580

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we’re back on focus on wyll im Jim meadows in my guests are Michael and Sara

Micah and Sara Champaign Urbana couple with two children what is transgender exercise

exercising his friend preference delivers a boy also joining us a psychologist Marcos

how much is DeMarco Hidalgo who works with transgender UC’s with the enemy Robert H lurie Children’s Hospital

Children’s Hospital of Chicago Michael ansara what’s it like being Daniels mom and dad

mom and dad sings with him that you know that that’s just daily kids stuff like any other

absolutely free just had a parent teacher conference with his

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incredibly wonderful 3rd grade teacher and uh she ever talk about that

talking about the homework complaints in the the wining the hair that we see sometimes she laughed

she laughed she just told us that is what she hears over and over again so yeah we’re doing with the

dealing with the averi normal very on track 8 year olds

8 year olds you’ve come across a good degree of acceptance and at school

set at school I mean hCG the change happen but I can say home couple schools ban in the city

is Ben and this is even coming from Kevin again for the ups Center in that he’s work for schools on more than me

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what more than we have and his process coming for his thomas Howell understanding

understanding accepting a Ben and again the process of how they sent letters out the family

the family how to start for the principal comes to you and says this is how it is

what is and were behind you you know it’s going to be okay because she know she doesn’t Scotia decision

decisions and it has been a couple coming out to the class the families of office

is off of his classmates have been very supportive wonderful he’s been invited to all boys birthday

birthday parties immediately and we had nothing but positive from the schools

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can I do want to say that we have had this public transit not always the case you have

if you have a community that’s ready to accept un bolso is the same way with

same way with the kids witch in some ways might be a reflection on the parents of the Dead

that Angelos friends except a message Daniel so the day that are the teachers

teachers maybe announcement date Sat everyone all the kids down at the carpet and its a 2nd 3rd

the 2nd 3rd grade class combined and um basically it was said that I did

udon new ball no no you my name is always shown an interesting boy sings

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voice things sands of name of like to be called Daniel and wants to go by male pronoun

male pronouns and the kids kind of looked around each other insurance

southern traditional it said yes that make sense and there was very little discussion follow up

follow up by any questions the kids had it was they were taken to the teachers and

send within hours of the letter going home to the parents

Mike and I receive numerous supportive encouraging emails

fails and um it just continue to boost your confidence in

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in knowing that we were going to be alright Foster had

wonderful support from our spiritual community at Sinai temple

we made a similar to his to his class there and

we’re at again very well received and there’s

there’s there’s been no uncomfortable situations of Fire and Ice

and that’s racist race is the question of Emmett Marco you can talk a little bit more

little bit more about this guy a sumo suit with with with fingers you were talking about

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talking about their are transgender kids everywhere but the experiences of a maybe

name a bee have a baby different um I don’t know if you’ve met any other

any other transgender folks here in Champaign Urbana especially cats

we have not know that that’s one thing that we are missing I’m speaking a little bit

eating a little bit of Sarah’s parents to give a little bit of history that that it was a little bit more chance to her father

father and he just wants to seek professional help someone that’s the way he was raised you want to get expert opinions

pinions broadside a second he so we ASU’s reintroduces Daniel 2

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Daniel to Grandpa completely behind him and soul for the president supportive so what we did

so what we then had to start doing is looking at where can I find a transgender youth agency can I relate

I relate to in and be friends with promise we couldn’t find any around here and I

your and out with him to camp which against grandparents in a pain for the support us in sport Daniel

Sport Daniel and I was on the East Coast so that’s quite a drive in shape to get somewhere

somewhere but um I was really worth it this was a summer camp for transgender

ginger for transgender boys girls both hands Ani UTEP both Daniels in a cabin with

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what’s in a cabin with both male identify and kids and female identifying kids and 3

find kids in 3 year old and he had a magical summer camp experience were here

look around all the kids and feel like I belong and understand me

me and you didn’t actually want to come home after that week but um campus close

Campus closing so so he can’t wait for next year

novena accepted in feel like you fit in the past have to be released

really really special for for Daniel do you worry about Daniel having friends

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friends as as as he gets older I definitely in concert right now in schools

right now schools to 8th grade so that feels like there’s a little questionnaire when we have to really a concern but the transition

but the transition high school is worth more the more than anything Ahmet store smart

does mark immunity notas understanding and um people are only going to know him is dead

is Daniel and you know when dating c*** in his all things parents and I we are always looking to that

look into that we can’t focus on tomorrow the timer always thinking about what’s going to happen we get this point

happened to get this point how can I prepare and start Hampton Inn at Scituate starting to think about purity

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city of heavenly 8 but these things are happening tonight in sooner and thinking

Handsworth thinking about hormone blockers and cross hormone therapy

hormone therapy Zeno survey questions we have a about how to handle the situation

Asian send what’s going to make dinner feel most comfortable is a big decisions we have to make

have to make a coming up Marco maybe you can talk a little bit of

little bit about decisions like that what’s with children in Beaver Dam

ss far is how to say shins are made I don’t even know what Illinois law says about this

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women don’t know what the recognition is a transgender conditions specially

especially with minors well I think it’s important to recognize it

950 transmission for a child to identify a transgender

what is the time difference in their navel gender in boss 2 aspects of one side of a social club

social component with his hands like in the case of my kind Farrah and Daniel

Daniels that’s already started so the process of a child really a

letting folks know how the child wants to identify a Child

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child wants to be referred to as the family and the support system really hopefully

really hopefully following through with that I’d the next pieces

what you were mentioning me which are some of those issues at Duke

jesus said to come up around puberty for kids that I continue my feet

you might be gender nonconforming winder young kids and then continue to identify with a gender

with a gender difference in tornado gender of the idea of approaching puberty and watch

and watching their body change to be consistent with a needle gender that’s not true that they are in

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ar 15 is really distressing as a sum of the xylem procedure

procedures that we have our eyes certainly reversible partially reverse

Marshall Lee reversible and then as a child gets older and becomes an adult to the left

do the left reversible or that the more surgical types of intervention now

now I think what kids who are around the age of puberty

puberty typically do are lockers what era had mentioned witch

which essentially the reversible process I wear a Child

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who does identify as transgender or if gender

gender questioning that is really trying to figure out what is my internal gender identity

I believe they can go on the Fockers which serve the function of POS in Cuba

causing puberty of a possum proceso de fat highly distressing

distressing experience of your body changing before you’re ready for it to em is POS

is POS and you can either continue to understand your gender or if you are

if you are transgender and I know you could continue on those blocker

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soccer till you’re about age 16 Naot legally we speak more in terms of some of the guys

some of the guidelines around help legally the age of consent in Illinois the same as it is

the same as it is in my state which is a pain to say that children cannot Us

cannot Us at the certain a medical interventions with

the consent of their parental guardians are legal guardian south

out of the guideline fat from afar physicians follow the same guidelines

guidelines for physicians follow the US and also international way around it

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around ministration a form on Ice tickets usually blockers

Byron age of 12 is usually the earliest a child

talking to a blocker affect hormones the earliest a child

Harmons is 816  so whatever the choices army

Joyce’s are made marca what what what helpful Daniel needed to

to progress through adolescence Minot just those decisions made decisions as a

changes School in and meet up with more more people absolutely free trial

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every child a friend and I would sail speak generally because I haven’t met Daniel

Daniel only heard of a snippet really have everything everything that makes Daniel Daniel

Daniel Daniel but some of the typical conversations I will have with I

I’ve young people and children and adolescents are talking about

talking about their worries for certain way you know what we’re revamp about getting older

getting older and things around Cape Verdean body changes usually come out

how do I negotiate you know who I am with my friend thats a big one

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what ive got anything from how do I talk about my gender how do I talk about

about explaining photos that they might see if me from when I was still present

I was still present in my navel tender I think some of the conversations I have with

I have with parents during that time is what I mention already which is talking about

about gender development talking about their process of coming to terms with this major change

major change Ievan also what I like to think of his coaching which is sort of you know that

you know that was very thing nuts and bolts sort of a

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parents need when it comes to answering questions at family members my ass

members my ass what are highly personal or that are sometimes challenging to ants

challenging to answer I’ll wait for them to applique on behalf of the child with a teacher that

teacher that may not understand things are with a school that may i

not not provide gender of for Maine accommodations for child

child so the other aspects of this kind of transition

Sarah and Michael you weren’t talking a little bit earlier

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earlier about the acceptance of that your son head found at school

but also of also them really how happy he was

happy he wants to be able to go to that summer camp meet other transgender children in CA

UCA bill to find the closest relationships with with kids who are not transgender

transgender how is our are they able to accept him as they would any other kid or sit still

is there still  just something you just get something to turn on closed

um I think he has very strong relationships what is peer group ear off

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we start a question sleepovers and wondering how are other parent

how are other parents going to feel about that aspects of them

so we we do have questions but we we feel like it’s really important to just be

into just be open with friends in which people that he wants to be friends with a talking about

talking about the things are not trying to hide anything in there comforters at

fat and how we can move forward he he feels comfortable talk

comfortable talking about it seems you his confidence is grown the summer between cancer couple camp

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couple can t wait to hear and wanted to camp TV show the counselor when it came time to change

game time to change in swimsuits which we had not planned head for a hero

he knew it was going to be out in open and it was going to be an uncomfortable situation in so he would

Shannon so he went up to a counselor and said you know what a transgender person is in the counselor said yeah

the counselor said yes he said well why a man says he was router see little let’s find

let’s find you somewhere else to to change and his confidence grew from that he was

rue from that he was so proud of himself for being able to express at end

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sad and it take care of himself  feel like all the ways

all the ways as parents all things were doing to encourage him

Tim to express himself and letting him know its okay

located this is going to hopefully carry his confidence through as pure

do as a pro chiz and things become harder and some ways

ways in which a little bit I don’t want to be right there are people that question

question are parenting know why you doing this is no case

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and something against you gotta know our family you have to know who we are and are the talking dead have a 1000

did have a teener Leon right before he came up to the classroom nice to tune

he was a boner look very stressed you can tell he’s really nervous how to classmates regatta

going to accept Eminem take a man did you know we can we can and all this nervous

nervousness know if you have right now we don’t need to come out would you rather not come out

what come out an engineer vs right now to me said no that I cant lie

I can’t lie about who I am I’d rather be deal with the sinners and see how to connect

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see how to accept me than live a lie rest of my life

the 700 the time in this isn’t he doesn’t see these things against the shot you want to

why you want to avoid stressful situations at all cost does not like it

does not like it up in front of people and so when he says to me as his father I know him Hugo cinema

you go to my eyes  that’s on you to hear this is how big a twist Hammond

West Ham and I hope you know people just disagree nor stand at the disco start to see that

see that this is big in him this is in the human stressing out in holding him back and talking to the

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talking to the time to Kathy in the teachers afterwards he has done 180 degree turn there in the sky

is coming out smiling so much more in so much while going to school to come out

come out naked just be something grease off shirt to cut through any anxiety

we are on this is focus on wyll im Jim meadows in

still time for your questions about transgender youth talking to parents of a transgender child

transgender child Michael ansara and with psychologist Marcos Valle go phone numbers

phone number is 1 800 22 29455 email addresses will talk

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dash talk at Illinois a.edu I’m wondering is it Central Time

talk about what you want to be when he grows up huh meaning

expressions we had a long talk on a bike ride to school

bike ride to school the other day and you just tell me all the things that you pictures for his life he pictures and ice house

house with lots of yard in room to play on a trampoline E Cheese in Southaven kids season

seasons of having a beautiful wife and himself in handsome

farez job that uses for himself has not

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has not gotten any interest in he’s not quite pinpoint in 1.5

but you love someone and um and very active so

active so you say he’s just a typical 8 year old boy this point

this point in again because reception opening retox someone to talk everything through Wii

we are my brother and his partner they have adopted two kids and so and there are

there are family and so dangerous is a side of you can fly logically birthstone

Owen adopting is no difference it’s all family and so I think

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because he’s been brought up that way and Seamus part of arctan a family that he gets that is just something he can doing

something he can do it doesn’t need to stress about that either Michael every member at the beginning of the program

the program on uexpress to love again summary

seem to be glad to hear that Sarah and Michael

my camera to find some support in downstate Illinois ISAT should say that

for have something that since Champaign Urbana parts from other parts of State Illinois is that it is

is that it is a big university town and I think some of the cultural dimensions

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the mansions of the community are little different from a lot of areas of a room

map of Aurora Illinois um what do when is the kids the Houston family

the youth and families that you work with where do they come from and what degrees off

freeze off of you know what degrees of challenge in opposition do they deal with this far is peak

far is being transgender overall there is a lack of resources

how to provide gender firming support other in mental health care

health care Oregon medical care for Children and Families FL

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even in the city of Chicago we are I want to have se

maybe two to three other i5 hear that support

support juggernaut conforming individuals we happened to focus mainly on children

children and adolescents kids from Chicago we also see them from

from the Greater Metro area of from Northern Illinois

Hawaii I northeastern northwestern Indiana

but we’re starting to get more and more family is coming from throughout the Midwest

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really the only center in the Midwest so high

I think are one of our challenges is that we can’t seem to reach every

how to reach everyone the way that we want to NFL part of what we really thinking about

really thinking about is how do we then help other facilities what is AB Hospital

hospitals are community centers around the Midwest to be able to provide

provide a kind of support that we do I feel that we have more people out there

can help families in need what are the things that strikes and I really wanna

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what I really wanted to say I think why it’s important to go back to that common emitter lier

earlier recognizing champaign-urbana is is that different summers

friend and some respects and other parts of a Illinois and that it is a more

it is more aggressive for half an hour Collegetown ephedra should be noted

should be noticed that you know I think of Micah for example Michael your father was an excellent

excellent model of support if father how ever ever really should be no

really should be noted that father’s office have a hard time initially accepting the children gender variance

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and I ask is because there may be fathers were listening

eventually listen to that song line for home this experience firing were true

Raymour true and I think that’s what we want to see and I say

and I say that because overtime talking about what challenges am I talking about

talking about this experience over all those many fathers come to accept anything

map of from their children’s gender develop at MU for fathers coming from all over

so I think it’s really important to keep that in mind and not even if your father

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if your father was listening or you met a father who have had a nationally really hard time are parents

timer parent micholi really hard time I got that does not determine

the term and how they will develop as a parent over the course of a child fly

I’m wondering um Sarah and Micah

facility like the up center in Champaign County do they have a specific service

Pacific service center services of ways of assistance it said that a family

the family that includes a family in your situation with a transgender child could I draw

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draw a minion the support in depth with a can provide they won’t find

find resources to support that family and again look at some things that are

things that are concerns is the cost of the lockers in a game work on social worker salary

salaries urine and blood these are things that you navigate insurance fields in house

Goldson how were going to get support without is is a concert come up for us what is your question yes up center

ups center they are huge support and I hope that a family community credit

use them and go to find them and they will support of famous smoke a home

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home hormone blockers and Other Drugs therapies like that sounds like a big decision to make

decision to make you feel that the day that you’re going to have enough time and resources to

horses to figure everything out on bond on you and Daniel making those decisions

I hope so we’re trying to do a research and to recharge the professional

the professionals to have all the information for us um you feel like we have a little time

like we have a little time but it is it is a little bit daunting so um

um so we are trying to learn as much as possible and be prepared for when the time comes

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that will make the right decisions I’m hoping since beyond hair with Marco that we can definitely

definition shemales with Marco in your licence Resources up in Chicago absolutely

and I haven’t already I think we want to make sure to add links to us to the up center

to the up center and also to a city in Robert H lurie Children’s Hospital on to our web

12 our website witches will DoD Illinois dot edu slash

slash focus thanks to our guests for guiding us do this to complex topic Michael

topic Michael ansara thanks for coming on the program best wishes to both of your boy

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boys talk about younger kid and I think smart

thanks Michael Haddad go for coming on the program piece clinical psychologists in the gender and sex

end of sex development program a division of adolescent medicine and Robert H Lurie

Children’s Hospital of Chicago welcome any additional thought you have about

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