Douglas Todd: If your child talks about being a different gender, take it slowly

The public debate over children who want to become a different gender is highly polarized and politicized. In the midst of it parents are struggling.
B.C. and Ontario now have public school programs advocating full acceptance of people who might be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. But that doesn’t mean parents know what to do if their children tell them they’re confused, or even adamant, about adopting another sexual identity.
On one end of the spectrum are protesters of educat