The talk on "transgenderism" by Rick Smith for parents River Forest District 90 are encouraged to attend is titled "All About Gender: What every parent should know." | Relate Counseling
The talk on "transgenderism" by Rick Smith for parents River Forest District 90 are encouraged to attend is titled "All About Gender: What every parent should know." | Relate Counseling
River Forest District 90 is advocating for parents to join a talk on transgender issues.
The school district sent parents an email promoting Thrive Counseling Center’s Rick Smith’s upcoming talk geared toward the area’s students and focused on informing parents about “today’s fast-changing gender landscape.”
Dawne Simmons, Communications and Community Outreach Coordinator, sent the email to the school district’s parents, including the counseling center’s talk aimed at educating area parents on transgenderism.
“This talk will focus on today’s fast-changing gender landscape including: current gender concepts, terms, statistics, social-emotional implications, and current best practices. Attendees will learn about the transgender and gender non-conforming experience and gain from the presenter’s experience as the parent of a transgender son,” the flyer for the Zoom talk reads.
The talk is titled All About Gender: What every parent should know. Smith, a therapist focusing on couple and family counseling operates whose child is transgender, will lead the discussion on Jan. 27 at 7:30 p.m.
The Zoom link is public.
Thrive Counseling Center board member Steven Parker argued in a Jan. 18 Wednesday Journal piece that gender and birth sex aren't one and the same.
“Gender identity is no longer solely thought to be determined by one’s sex at birth,” he wrote. “A definition I recently read described gender identity as one’s own internal sense of self and their gender, whether that is man, woman, neither or both. This idea is so very different from the ways most of us were brought up to believe.”
D90 includes around 1,300 students at Lincoln and Willard Elementary Schools, and Roosevelt Middle School.
D90 has an expansive Ad Hoc Gender Inclusiveness Committee it notes was created “(a)s part of our efforts to promote inclusiveness and equity for all students.”
The American Psychiatric Association's "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" holds children are not fully capable of understanding what it means to be a man or a woman, adding that most questioning their biological sex eventually come to accept it and stop "identifying" as the opposite one.
As reported in a 2017 article in The New Atlantis, transgender activists encourage puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone treatments and sex reassignment surgery in children who identify as the opposite sex and suffer from what is called "gender dysphoria." No laws in the United States prohibit the use of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones for children, or regulate the age at which they may be administered.
Critics say 80 to 95 percent of children “naturally grow out of any gender-identity conflicted stage.”
A 2020 national survey by the Trevor Project found 40 percent of the combined LGBTQ respondents seriously considered attempting suicide in the past twelve months, with more than half of the transgender group (T) and nonbinary youth having seriously considered suicide.
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