A little boy looks up at his mother one evening and asks, "Mom, people tell me boys don't cry. So if I cry, does that make me weak?" She doesn't have an answer ready. Most of us wouldn't. Chances are, ...

Yet the ways in which pain was represented varied significantly between boy and girl characters, with outdated gender stereotypes persisting across storylines. For example, not only were boys more ...

Boys Don't Cry (1999) is a crime-drama film. It follows a young transgender, who forms a romantic bond with a single mother under a male identity. However, he does not tell her the truth about his sex ...

The title of this blog post could be put another way: “Because I said, ‘Stop crying’ to my son when I was raising him, did I ruin his life?” I have been asked questions like this for more than thirty ...