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Friday, August 03, 2007

Advice for a reluctant advisor, please

I occasionally get emails from kids (pre sixteen) who find my site, identify themselves as TG, and want my "help". It worries me, partly because, as a man over twenty years their senior it feels a little wrong talking to them about this kind of stuff. Also I really have trouble knowing what to tell them.

The only UK group that I know of for younger trannies is Mermaids, but I have my misgivings about pointing them there. It seems a little too "serious" for kids who are just starting to identify as a tranny and merely want to explore their feelings a bit.

Also, the whole site seems very dated, and I'm pretty sure it would leave a young tranny today as cold as the badly photocopied flyers about secretive transvestite support groups used to leave the young me.

So, I'm throwing this one open to my readership. Has anyone got any good resources for me to point young trannies at? Or, is there a gap it the market just waiting to be filled?

Emma G  I had these resources in my collection of links.
1)Trans Youth Family Advocates:http://www.imatyfa.org/
is a decent starting point.
2)The Antijen Pages:http://www.antijen.org/ has a variety of resources.
3) The book "Mom, I Need To Be A Girl" by Just Evelyn. It's out of print, but there's a copy posted on Lynn Conway's site here
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Evelyn/Evelyn.html

Hope these are helpful 
Natalie  Antijen is very good and so is the book Bex. You could also shoot them my way if you'd like. I'm only 20. It might be a bit less scary. I still remember high school and all that. 
Tess  Theres a good forum aimed at younger people.

http://youngcds.angrynachos.com/forum/index.php 
Lynn Jones  If forums are your thing, then there's a TG Youth (not Yoof tho) section on the UK Angels site. Even if it's not offering advice directly, being able to talk with people going through the same stuff as yourself can be useful.

Failing that, would there be any mileage in us 'old hands' putting a few ideas down on paper? 
Natalie  That forum Tess posted about looks good. Leah, one of my girls from Flickr is an admin. That makes me feel pretty good about it. 
Jayne  When I first started looking for transition advice, I looked up local support groups on the net. Care does need to be taken though, because there are some real perverts out there who get off on TG folk, as no doubt you all know.

I have dealt with Press For Change who are full of good advice, http://www.pfc.org.uk/

My experience is from the TS side of things and I also work in a school, so I recommend seeing a trusted GP, School Counsellor or a Youth Therapist. It is hard to get treatment before the age of 18, although some sympathetic GP's will proscribe hormone suppressants to prevent onset of puberty until a full diagnosis is given. 

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