Posted on 06/19/2015 10:14:13 AM PDT by rightistight
Writing to Slate, a concerned reader asked for advice when it came to an "unusual request" that his wife had to face.
The reader explained what can only be described as a form of abuse: the reader's wife is a ballet instructor. Two parents recently came to her and requested that their 10-year-old son, named Dan in the letter, be given private dancing lessons.
Dan identifies as a boy. However, his parents told the ballet instructor to address him as "Danielle" and that he would be dressed in a pink tutu.
Dan's parents further told the instructor that this was not his choice; instead, they said that they are forcing him to dress and live like a female for two years as an "experiment" to make him a more "enlightened adult."
The reader said that his wife rejected the request, as she saw it as unhealthy, particularly because it was against Dan's will.
Slate responded that a call to Child Protective Services was warranted and that this "project" was clearly emotional abuse.
Were the two parents both female?
And that’s why we call ‘em Libtards!
Slow death over period of 10 years.
Sadly, a sign of our times. ...that we even have to ask.
Child abuse!
When this one snaps, how many is he going to take out and which right-wing radio host will be blamed?
A few years in prison for child abuse would be appropriate, but that won’t happen in the remade America.
There's a lot of really hot girls in ballet.
Great, if you want to run a serial killer factory.
But, I don’t know what passes for “enlightened” these days.
Bingo!
How much plainer is it that this was emotional abuse by forcing a boy to dress and act as a girl against his will?
These parents are completely sick!
Are they now going to show the faces of the parents while commenting on the “vacant stare” in their eyes as they did with the murderer in Charleston, SC?
Real subjective reporting on the part of the TV media.
Have we ever heard any reporter say anything about the sullen stares that we get from muzzie jihadists when caught?
If I could track this child for the next 15 years I would bet large that he will become a suicide statistic in that time.
You're enlightened if you voted for transparency.
You're racist if you're pissed off that you didn't get it.
Most of them are out of reach of a male.
Incredible. Simple child abuse.
The two parents will have to get “Dan” on psycho drugs first, then the normal ‘drugs/drug mixture’.
Then he snaps.
But it is conservatives’ fault.
If this isn’t CHILD ABUSE, I don’t know what is. Humans should NOT be PROJECTS.
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