Roads to Safe Places

Re: gender identity in kids, YES. Some kids are trans, but it shouldn't be judged by doctors or parents based on whether they conform to extreme gender stereotypes, ones the vast majority of cis kids don't anymore (I hit 2, 3, 4, and 6 when I was a kid and am certainly cis). Is it so inconceivable that a trans girl might also be a tomboy? It makes me think uncomfortably of the doctors who try to "cure" trans kids by having the parents enforce very stereotypical gender roles on the kids, e.g. preventing biofemales from wearing trousers or playing with trucks. But I think the medical field in general has been instrumental in applying and sometimes enforcing strict gender roles to trans people.

I don't know; I have huge issues with the DSM in general. I'm still deeply bothered that one of the criteria for anorexia and bulimia is being underweight; there are a lot of reasons a person with all the mental symptoms and poor nutrition and other physical effects of an eating disorder might not be underweight (for example, medications for other conditions), and I think making the definition hinge on weight is deeply dangerous to treatment.