Third Party Surveys of Gender Variant People.
Parents of gender variant children
Rex and Karen Butt are the parents of a 29-year-old male-to-female transsexual. When their child came out to them six years ago, they felt that there was very little support in print, so, they are writing a book with the working title Now What? Parents of Transgender Children that examines the challenges, concerns and triumphs of parents of gender-variant children. The book will be structured around specific issues that we all face rather than
as a series of case studies.
They would be very pleased if parents of gender variant children would complete their survey which can be found here. The case sensitive password is “x13genkid”.
Rex Butt
Associate Professor
Communication Arts and Sciences
Bronx Community College
Bronx, NY 10453
Karen Butt
Middle School Coordinator
Academic Support Center
Oakwood Friends School
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
Note: We value your privacy. This research project has been reviewed and approved by
the Institutional Review Board of the City University of New York for research on
human subjects
Parents' Experiences
Australian survey of experiences of parents (and other guardians/relatives/support people) of children with gender identity issues.
This online survey is limited to those parents and other guardians/relatives/support people of children 14yo and under.
Click Here to take survey
If you do not live in Australia or meet the criteria but would still like to participate an off-line version is available here. Instructions for submission are included.
The study is being conducted by Catherine Wilson (Phone: 02-9540-3999), as part of a Masters of Clinical Psychology, Macquarie University; and Dr Andrew Baillie, Supervisor at Macquarie University (Phone: 02-9850-9436); and Dr Louise Newman, Supervisor.
Counselling Research
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's Systematic Review of Research on Counselling and Psychotherapy for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender People (2007) ”found very few papers focusing on psychotherapy for transgender people that were not solely concerned with preparing them for gender reassignment or assisting them afterwards to adapt to their new gender role.“
This research is about experience of counselling and psychotherapy for the things that can and do affect us all as people. Issues such as loss and bereavement, work related stress, experience of bullying, relationship problems, social anxiety, and so on: human issues that may occur without, prior to, alongside or after gender reassignment.
This research is not concerned with the process of gender reassignment itself.
The purpose of this study is to investigate what clients themselves experience as being appropriate and inappropriate in counsellors' and psychotherapists' practices toward trans-identified and trans-historied clients.
The study is being conducted by Tina Livingstone who is a Person Centred Counsellor and Pink Therapy Accredited Sexual Minorities Therapist who specialises in working with the trans-population. If you would like any more information or have any concerns with regard to taking part in this study, please feel free to contact her, or contact her supervisor, Professor Mick Cooper.
This questionnaire is for people who identify as transvestite/transgender/ transsexual or who are trans-historied and who have received counselling or psychotherapy for the things that can and do affect us all as people (such as loss and bereavement, work related stress, experience of bullying, relationship problems, and so on)
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