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RE: Transgendered children
April 25, 2015 at 7:56 pm
Children should be protected from nutty parents.....no matter what their particular obsession is.
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RE: Transgendered children
April 25, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Why do you find it disturbing? The kid was diagnosed by a doctor who studies it with Gender Identity Disorder. This is more reasonable than almost anything I can think of. They are delaying puberty until the kid is older so she can make a decision about moving forward at that time.
I'm not sure what's so controversial here.
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RE: Transgendered children
April 25, 2015 at 8:03 pm
I've gone through a lot of training about this, and I've done even more reading up on it since my training, and I have no doubt that hormone blockers for an eleven-year-old are the best way to go when they were born the "wrong" sex.
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RE: Transgendered children
April 25, 2015 at 8:08 pm
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(April 25, 2015 at 8:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (April 25, 2015 at 8:00 pm)I_am_not_mafia Wrote: Be aware that the Daily Mail is the UK equivalent of fox 'news' so the way they word it "(and his lesbian parents)" is intended to throw doubt on the child's true gender identity and lay the blame on lesbians.
Also be aware that most trangendered children know by that age that they the gender they feel does not match with their physical gender, or at the very least that something is seriously wrong. And if they go through puberty then they will have a much harder life as a result. Waiting until after puberty before doing anything leads to a massively increased chance of suicide later on.
The parents are nutty for being lesbians?
To inflict this on an 8 year old? "Nutty" works for me. I could find other words that were even less polite if you'd like.
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RE: Transgendered children
April 25, 2015 at 8:14 pm
I don't think little kids know much about what they are at a young age. I wouldn't want that kind of thing done to a small child. I'm no psychiatrist or anything, or how you'd even go abut figuring out if a kid really sees themself as another gender, or if they're just going through a faze. I'd rather they be given more time to figure out who they are before you change their body to something they may not be happy with in the future.
