re: Prominent doctor at the American Academy of Pediatrics proposes renaming penises & vaginas

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Q&A: A pediatrician who helps trans kids and moonlights playing klezmer
by Alix Wall
March 23, 2020

Dr. Ilana Sherer, 38, has a general pediatrics practice in Dublin at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation/Sutter Health with a specialty in caring for gender-nonconforming and transgender youth. She’s also a violinist with Saul Goodman’s Klezmer Band. She lives with her wife and two children in Oakland.

Q: There are a lot of Jews working in this field, true?

A: Once, at the center, we were trying to schedule our next meeting and realized that everyone in the room but one person was Jewish. I see it as part of the social justice terrain and my personal responsibility as a queer person and a Jew. These are the kids who need us to support and advocate for them in the way the generation before advocated for me.

Q: How do you explain the rise in trans or nonbinary children, and at younger ages?

A: Kids are now taught they can be whoever they want to be. We’re breaking down this imaginary social binary that tells you what each gender should do, but we’re also telling kids that you are in charge of how you live your best life and your best self. Not all kids who experiment will continue identifying as transgender, but they feel comfortable exploring it. In the past, a boy wearing a dress would get teased. Now, kids have the freedom to explore how they present and dress.

Lovely

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