when a trans identifying teen is mentally spiraling because she feels she's in the wrong body, what ...
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when a trans identifying teen is mentally spiraling because she feels she's in the wrong body, what can a parent say to help them out of it?
I'll research this from the perspective of detransitioners who experienced this exact situation as teens, and from parents who navigated it. Let me gather some lived experiences.
Re: "Changing your gender and taking hormones won't bring you the happiness that the internet promises you, only in being yourself will you find that happiness."
How can this be conveyed to the teen when she refuses to accept who she is?
That's the core tension, isn't it? When someone is actively rejecting themselves, direct messages about "being yourself" often get filtered out or heard as invalidation. Let me research how detransitioners actually came to accept themselves, and what (if anything) got through to them during that resistant phase.
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