Transgendered children

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At age seven, after threatening genital mutilation on himself, psychiatrists diagnosed Thomas with gender identity disorder.

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Money suggested children might have awareness of, and attach some significance to gender, as early as 18 months to two years; Lawrence Kohlberg argues that gender identity does not form until age three. It is widely agreed that core gender identity is firmly formed by age three. (See sources)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_i..._formation

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Money? John Money? Oh nonononononononono. I absolutely don't respect the man responsible for the deaths (by suicide) of many intersex children/boys with botched circumscisions after he decided that gender could be decided for a human being, and was proven horribly horribly wrong Please tell me that information isn't based on the work of that man, who went uncontested in this until Dimond perfomed the ever glossed-over follow-up... is the information that we're going to cite here.

My experience with gender dysphoria was that I never really grasped it until I was 13 and was laying next to a guy I'd just had sex with, and he asked if I was gay. Sure, there were times I probably could have figured it out before then... but not by 7. Not by 8. Puberty made me self-aware, until then I really didn't care much, at least not in a stable manner. That I preferred to play female video game characters in literally every instance didn't enter into my mind. Until puberty happens, there's too much subject to change, and it's too hard to pin this kind of thing down. That is my opinion (however much of a pedophile it makes me? I still don't get that one, I really do still want to hear where the hell that came from, Divinity).

As for Thomas (or whatever they're called now), perhaps they truly are suffering from gender dysphoria. However, I'm not unaware of the failures of our mental health system, and I'm not unaware of the many things about this particular case that overall make me wary and concerned for the child. I know that there are feminists who adopt boys to teach them how to not be rapist or indeed masculine at all, and as I say: this case is hella suspect. Letting a child have pink hair? That really doesn't make me feel that the parents much care for how their child is going to do when they hit the 'real world'... it's a frightening case. It's the best I can do to hope that the child is legitimately suffering from gender dysphoria, and to resent the parents for rushing into this. So they threatened genital mutilation: who the hell even told them pussies were a thing before they reached puberty? Irresponsible.