Social Analysis of Transgender Pressure on Children

The assignment explores the topic of transgender pressure on children in the UK, examining how highly politicized groups are influencing school counselors and mental health providers to develop a belief among students that they were born in the wrong sex. It also discusses the issue of racial discrimination and labeling children as transphobic, highlighting the creation of unhealthy beliefs expressed on social media.

SOCIAL ANALYSIS OF A
HEALTH ISSUE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Step 1...............................................................................................................................................1
Step 2 ..............................................................................................................................................1
Step 3 ..............................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

STEP 1
My chosen article is:
<https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/27/trans-lobby-pressure-pushing-young-
people-to-transition?fbclid=IwAR100UfWp92AexuGVDsMsLr7iM-
zdfZGvy5r8BZ37ThymJD5qGujbqOn_HU>
STEP 2
From this article I will be reflect on specific issue that how in UK highly politicalised
transgender groups are pressurizing school counsellors and mental health providers to develop a
belief among student that they are born in wrong sex. By this I want to focus on that how
discrimination is been done on children. Moreover, how a separate identity is developed. I will
discuss that how school counsellors are pressurised.
STEP 3
This issue is presented in very wrong way. It has been constructed just to focus on
transgender children who are not able to identify their sex. It is presented by targeting specific
sex people who are facing difficulty in growth as men or women. Moreover, a feeling of fear is
developed among children that they are transgender and separated from identification of male or
female.
Also, it is constructed on labelling children as transgender. It is due to rise in pressure of
transgender groups. Thus, a high feeling of fear is developed in children of getting labelled as
transphobic. Also, children feel that their objectivity is defined. Due to immense pressure from
those group they are not able to change their belief.
Alongside it racial discrimination is presented in which children are treated less similar as
compared to others. In this a belief is developed on development issues. For that some critics are
also created. This unhealthy belief is expressed on social media. In that GIDS is also be involved
by transgender groups to construct this issue.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Faircloth, C., 2013. Militant lactivism?: Attachment parenting and intensive motherhood in the
UK and France (Vol. 24). Berghahn Books.
Macdonald, S.J., 2013. The right to be labelled: From risk to rights for pupils with dyslexia in
‘special needs’ education. In Constructing risky identities in policy and practice. Palgrave
Macmillan, London.
Margolis, J.B., 2016. Two divorced parents, one transgender child, many voices. Whittier J.
Child. & Fam. Advoc.. 15. p.125.
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