Many parents discover in very young children a dissonance between their sex and gender. As a consequence, the concern of a father or mother appears explaining that their daughter of two or three years or more, wants to be a boy.
Today we live under a society that little by little is advancing in how to act in the face of freedomregardless of their gender, in not judging their actions because feels that he is of a different sex. What happens when your daughter does not identify with the sex that she is? What if she doesn't feel like a girl and rejects her female reproductive organ?
My daughter wants to be a boy, what does it mean?
Some mothers or fathers have entered the consultation concerned because your daughter has become obsessed with the idea that she wants to be a boy. In many cases, they reject their sex, want to have a penis and guide their application by wanting to urinate standing up, dress like boys or even surround themselves with friends to play with them.
This fact is generally distinguished as the global term transgender, since some boys or girls do not identify with the biological sex that has been granted at birth. Many people do not find empathy with their reproductive organs and it causes a discomfort or rejection called gender dysphoria.
Many of these responses can be manifested in different expressions. The girl may be going through a gender identity, where its modality is governed by the brain. Because of their sexual orientation, when they determine to be heterosexual, bisexual or homosexual. Or when they are sexually expressing an orientation, where would they do it with behavior.
What identifies your daughter with being 'transgender'?
It is identified by a series of precise details, including is the way to act, verbalize or when you are not satisfied with your sex. Next, we detail many more of the reasons that conclude this situation:
There is no age discrimination, It can be a girl or an adult girl where they can begin to express their desire to dress with the opposite sex and reject their own gender.
They like to be surrounded by companions of the other gender and where they create a behavior or games of that sex in imitation and fantasy. Toys of their own gender are rejected and prefer those of the opposite sex. The same happens with play activities or how they should behave, they avoid everything in their power.
They don't like their assigned sex, how we've rebounded, girls do not want to have a vulva and the same happens in adolescence. There is an exhaustive rejection on the growth of the breasts, the change of voice or with the subject of pubic hair.
Regarding your social life prefer to be treated as people of the other gender and they always find some kind of bump or do not conclude in the tune they are waiting for. His response can create great discomfort and creates a deterioration in his social life and especially in school.
How to support your daughter who wants to be a boy
Free expression must be respected of your daughter so that she can express what she truly feels and can identify with. At no time should you deny how you want to dress or what you want to play with.
If it is a difficult situation to weigh, you always have to go to psychological support at the family level. There are associations that allow this type of help both for parents like transgender children. The girl may need an outside person to share her needs and manage all her concerns.
It is important that at home you have all the support and reinforcement possible, since everything that happens on the outside may be the object of discrimination and ridicule. Communication in the family environment is a positive reinforcement, you have to try to normalize the situation so that there are no conflicts and let your daughter explore her sexuality as normally as possible.