Sunrise Therapy Services; Dawn Darling, LICSW

Sunrise Therapy Services; Dawn Darling, LICSW Member of NASW and WPATH. Knowledgable, affiirmative, compassionate 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 I am doing my dream job and would love working with you!

I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker currently practicing at Cornerstone Counseling. I am a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), and PFLAG Kearney.

I always felt like I didn’t really fit in with many of my peers (or anyone, really) and it wasn’t until a few years ago ...
07/31/2026

I always felt like I didn’t really fit in with many of my peers (or anyone, really) and it wasn’t until a few years ago that I began to realize my neurodivergence. I can strongly relate to these four main ways people mask. Can you?? Feel free to share your thoughts and experiences!

Podcast Episode · ADHD Chatter · July 27 · 1h 21m

Here’s the science of gender diversity, isn’t it amazing and beautiful that we are all so unique?! Let’s embrace our dif...
07/31/2026

Here’s the science of gender diversity, isn’t it amazing and beautiful that we are all so unique?! Let’s embrace our differences and respect each others experiences with an open and accepting mind 🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚

The Reason Men Have Ni***es Is the Same Reason Transgender People Exist. No, Really.
Men have ni***es because every human embryo starts identical.
For the first few weeks in the womb there is no male or female. Just a human being in development. Ni***es form during that early identical stage before any s*x differentiation has begun. By the time the biological process that creates male anatomy starts, the ni***es are already there. So men keep them. They serve no reproductive function in males. They exist because the body built them before it knew which direction it was going.
That is not a design flaw. That is how human development actually works.
And it is exactly the same reason transgender people exist.
Here is the biology.
Around week six of pregnancy, if there is a Y chromosome, a gene called SRY switches on. This triggers the developing go**ds to become te**es. Those te**es then produce testosterone. That surge of testosterone is what shapes male ge***al anatomy over the following weeks. Without it, female anatomy develops by default. This entire process, from the SRY gene switching on to ge***al formation being complete, happens between roughly weeks six and twelve of pregnancy.
Then the process stops. The ge***als are done.
The brain has barely started.
Brain development continues throughout pregnancy and the s*xual differentiation of the brain, the process that shapes whether your neurological architecture develops along male or female lines, happens in the second half of pregnancy. It is driven by a different hormonal environment at a different time. The hormones reaching the developing brain are not identical to the ones that shaped the ge***als weeks earlier. The levels differ. The timing differs. The specific brain regions being shaped differ.
This is not one process. It is two entirely separate biological events happening weeks apart under different conditions.
And here is the part that changes everything.
Those two processes can be influenced differently. The hormonal environment during ge***al development and the hormonal environment during brain development do not have to match. Genetics, the mother’s hormone levels, the sensitivity of the fetal cells to hormones, chance variations in the biological cascade, all of these can produce a situation where the ge***als develop one way and the brain develops another.
When that happens you get a person whose neurological s*x does not match their anatomical s*x.
That is a transgender person.
Not a choice. Not a trend. Not social media. Something that happened in the womb before the person had a name, before they had a single thought, before they had any awareness of the world they were entering.
This has been published in Nature since 1995. Confirmed by multiple independent research teams across three decades. Over 100 genetic links documented. The World Health Organisation agrees. The Royal College of Psychiatrists agrees. Every major medical institution on earth agrees.
You already accepted that male ni***es make sense once you understood how human development works.
Transgender people make sense for exactly the same reason.
The biology was always there.
It just never got explained this simply.

06/26/2026

Cynthia Erivo offered a powerful perspective on the conversations surrounding LGBTQ+ people and relationships, reminding audiences that love should never be treated as something controversial. Reflecting on today's social climate, she argued that if people truly understood and appreciated what love feels like, they would want everyone to experience it without judgment or interference. Her message resonated with many because it cut through political debates and focused on a simple idea: everyone deserves the opportunity to love and be loved.

Here’s some great sleep tips!
06/26/2026

Here’s some great sleep tips!

Podcast Episode · ADHD Experts Podcast · June 23 · 58m

06/26/2026

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I love getting to be me while you get to be you and we ALL FEEL SAFE! Happy Pride, friends and family 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🔥💚💚💚
06/14/2026

I love getting to be me while you get to be you and we ALL FEEL SAFE! Happy Pride, friends and family 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🔥💚💚💚

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