Article on transgender child

[PennLady]

Found this in the Post this morning and though it was interesting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/transgender-at-five/2012/05/19/gIQABfFkbU_story.html

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

But she's female regardless of anyone's PC opinion. You can make a PhD out of a Nigga, with a certificate, but chromosomes are forever.

The trouble with liberal parents is, if this child swears she's a unicorn they'll have her on a diet of oats and apples before the Sun sets.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Found this in the Post this morning and though it was interesting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/transgender-at-five/2012/05/19/gIQABfFkbU_story.html

Lucky for Tyler that there is material out there for his parents to read.

Much better than a life spent enduring endless attempts to beat it out of "her."

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I think that the child knows what he is better than the so-called experts. Some things you just KNOW. Period.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Good for him. I'm glad he had parents who try to accommodate him.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Yep. The rest of the world can take a lesson from this.

 

[3113]

Washington Post will only let me read the first two pages, then it wants my name, etc. Annoying.

Anywhere else I can read this?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

How on Earth can a female know what its like to be male! Only the Usual Suspects find such blabber credible. BUT HONEY! IF OUR LIL EXASPERELLA SAYS SHE'S A PONY, SHE MUST BE ONE!

 

[Cruel2BKind]

How on Earth can a female know what its like to be male! Only the Usual Suspects find such blabber credible. BUT HONEY! IF OUR LIL EXASPERELLA SAYS SHE'S A PONY, SHE MUST BE ONE!

Oh shut up, you.

 

[TxRad]

Oh shut up, you.

Hey, don't talk to the horses ass like that.

 

[PennLady]

Washington Post will only let me read the first two pages, then it wants my name, etc. Annoying.

Anywhere else I can read this?

Did you try clicking on the print view or one-page view? I'm pretty sure they have one or both of those.

 

[Safe_Bet]

I'm wondering if they ever had HIS (fuck you JBJ) chromosomes checked? Seems like HE picked up on being TG way earlier than most.

 

[jomar]

Heard a radio segment about a year ago about a yearly meeting where transgendered children and their families get together. It was pretty moving to hear these kids talk...think they featured a couple around seven or eight years old...very powerful for them.

 

[Hubs_in_hose]

This is an area that we don't know that much about. There is still too much religious idiocy and bigotedness to allow this to even begin to be accepted.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

This is an area that we don't know that much about. There is still too much religious idiocy and bigotedness to allow this to even begin to be accepted.

Naaah. You people simply cant resist the delusion that God likes carnival freaks better than normal people.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Dear Reader

Our resident bird brains ignore how the childs parents condition the child like she was one of Pavlovs dogs. Act like a boy and you get extra time at mom's tit or whatever. Mom prolly wanted a boy, maybe it was the Nigga daddy.

 

[saucydenise]

What's the deal with JBJ? Is he really this mean and racist?

 

[wet_special]

This is an area that we don't know that much about. There is still too much religious idiocy and bigotedness to allow this to even begin to be accepted.

Obviously you're not bigoted in the least, thank goodness for that. You are among the enlightened few, which is not surprising because the mouth-breathing religious right certainly doesn't have anything but bible-thumping lunacy as their arguments in this matter. So don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.

I, as an ignorant cave dweller, would like to post my own thoughts on this matter. None of you know this girl. Or "boy" clearly those who do the gender switch will face certain challenges in life, if they were born clearly of one gender but try to become another, whether its sterility, or being unable to participate in most or all competitive sports (boys football, girls tennis, etc etc etc). I tend to wonder which locker room does he/she use in school? Which bathroom at the local diner or movie theater? I mean, there's many complications to someone's life when they become transgender, and the only thing I can say is it happens, it's biological, good luck, godspeed, I hope they overcome challenges and find happiness. None of my business what the parents decide or how they knew THIS EARLY that they wanted to pull the trigger on making their child a boy after all.

While parents should be the best judge, I find it possible that at age four, they might be jumping the gun for ideological reasons. This must be one heck of a bright, insightful, and wise 4 year old, whose brain is not fully developed (brain continues to develop until age 5), then the learning begins, but here this wise prodigy, this miracle, has decided that their birth was a mistake, they are really a boy -- (not a tomboy, as so many little girls are, but a B-O-Y boy, or a girl with penis envy who knows), and .. frankly, I wonder if the parents didn't lead the child to this decision. Sick.

Trolls, unite. *ducks*

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

What's the deal with JBJ? Is he really this mean and racist?

I like to think I'm ethnocentric.

 

[topace]

I think this child needs to see a psychologist. Clearly her (his) head is not on straight to decide this early that she/he was born in the wrong sex body.

Either that, or she/he got pressured to change by the parents and finally cracked.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Obviously you're not bigoted in the least, thank goodness for that. You are among the enlightened few, which is not surprising because the mouth-breathing religious right certainly doesn't have anything but bible-thumping lunacy as their arguments in this matter. So don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.

I, as an ignorant cave dweller, would like to post my own thoughts on this matter. None of you know this girl. Or "boy" clearly those who do the gender switch will face certain challenges in life, if they were born clearly of one gender but try to become another, whether its sterility, or being unable to participate in most or all competitive sports (boys football, girls tennis, etc etc etc). I tend to wonder which locker room does he/she use in school? Which bathroom at the local diner or movie theater? I mean, there's many complications to someone's life when they become transgender, and the only thing I can say is it happens, it's biological, good luck, godspeed, I hope they overcome challenges and find happiness. None of my business what the parents decide or how they knew THIS EARLY that they wanted to pull the trigger on making their child a boy after all.

While parents should be the best judge, I find it possible that at age four, they might be jumping the gun for ideological reasons. This must be one heck of a bright, insightful, and wise 4 year old, whose brain is not fully developed (brain continues to develop until age 5), then the learning begins, but here this wise prodigy, this miracle, has decided that their birth was a mistake, they are really a boy -- (not a tomboy, as so many little girls are, but a B-O-Y boy, or a girl with penis envy who knows), and .. frankly, I wonder if the parents didn't lead the child to this decision. Sick.

Trolls, unite. *ducks*

The liberal parents are conditioning the child to be the boy they wanted.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I think this child needs to see a psychologist. Clearly her (his) head is not on straight to decide this early that she/he was born in the wrong sex body.

Either that, or she/he got pressured to change by the parents and finally cracked.

The article says that the parents pressured him (hopefully not too hard) to act like a girl. They showed him pictures of female anatomy, and the child answered "why did you change me?"

I think it's good that they are letting him be who he wants to be. If nobody makes a huge deal out of it, and it really is just a phase, then he will reverse calmly and sanely. Gender identity is a fluid and changing thing, people should stop trying to make rigid binaries out of it.

 

[topace]

The article says that the parents pressured him (hopefully not too hard) to act like a girl. They showed him pictures of female anatomy, and the child answered "why did you change me?"

I think it's good that they are letting him be who he wants to be. If nobody makes a huge deal out of it, and it really is just a phase, then he will reverse calmly and sanely. Gender identity is a fluid and changing thing, people should stop trying to make rigid binaries out of it.

Thought the child was being warped by the parents, and this proves I was right!

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Thought the child was being warped by the parents, and this proves I was right!

He was born a girl, they were trying to make him act like his private parts.

 

[PennLady]

I think this child needs to see a psychologist. Clearly her (his) head is not on straight to decide this early that she/he was born in the wrong sex body.

Either that, or she/he got pressured to change by the parents and finally cracked.

Did you even read the article? The parents did not do any of this lightly. The mother, especially, at the beginning did as much research as she could to get information. I think it was a year or so after the child first started making statements about being a boy before she finally said something to her husband. The parents most certainly did not pressure a girl to act like a boy. And the child has seen a psychologist.

I think the parents have handled this about as well as can be expected. And C2BK is right -- this may change. It may be a phase that lasts for years, but it may still be a phase. So far, the only things that have changed are clothes, room decorations and pronouns, things that are easily changed should the child grow out of it. If not, well they will have harder decisions to make, but they can deal with that later.