Our+America

Watch the following episode of Our America with Lisa Ling titled “Transgender Lives”

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Pick one of the individuals featured in this episode. Keeping in mind the class material you have wrestled with in Human Growth and Development consider the following possibility: You enter a professional clinical relationship with a family member of the person you selected from the episode. This family member wants to be supportive the transgender individual but is overcome with grief/guilt/shame/ regarding how and why their family member would choose (or has realized) that their sexual identity does not match their biological sex assignment. How would you respond to this family member? How might you incorporate what you have learned about attachment and development theory to help your client with their goal of wanting to be supportive?

Post your response in the thread titled Our America Episode by Thursday March 31, 2011 11:59pm. Post two responses to two different classmates by Friday April 1 (April fools!) by 11:59pm.