USAToday.com – By Sharon Jayson, USA Today
Chicago – Sexual orientation and sexual labels. Gender crossing and gender bending. These aren’t X-rated or adults-only topics but rather subjects that young people talk about as they figure out where they fit in, said a panel of experts at a weekend conference of the Council on Contemporary Families here.
“Youth are saying they don’t want to be defined by gender or orientation,” Chicago psychologist Braden Berkey told those attending a panel on “Gender in the Next Generation” on the final day of the conference Saturday.