Children and Youth Navigating Gender

Joint Session between RC 53 and RC 32

In an era of greater trans visibility and gender activism, when children are being asked to choose their gender pronouns and can choose what kind of puberty, if any, they want to experience, it is imperative to understand how children and youth are coming to such decisions. We need to examine children’s popular culture, social media, peer groups, cultural backgrounds and family support systems to begin to understand the challenges children and youth are navigating, and the types of cultural, medical, educational, familial and peer resources that would be useful to them, their families and peers, and their wider social groups. Papers are invited that explore any aspect of children/youth navigating contemporary (or historical) gender dimensions of their lives.