Posted on 07/19/2006 7:20:21 AM PDT by presidio9
Few will know this genetic truth, because the 5-year-old's parents and school administrators have agreed that it's in his best interest to blend in as a female.
Mental health professionals have diagnosed Pat - not his real name - with gender dysphoria, a condition in which a person believes that he or she is the opposite gender. After two years of examination, they have determined that he is not simply effeminate or going through a phase.
"Gender dysphoria can take place during a fetus' development in the womb," said noted gender specialist and sexologist Marilyn Volker, Ph.D., of Miami.
While this tyke is likely the youngest transgendered child admitted to a South Florida school, he is not unique. Both the Broward and Miami-Dade County school systems have policies in place to smooth the way for such students and their families.
Equality Florida, which advocates for Florida's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, and PFLAG - Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays - say the two school districts have the most progressive policies in the state.
Broward and Miami-Dade are among the most exemplary school districts "when it comes to the rights of transgendered people," said Tobias Packer, South Florida Field Organizer for Equality Florida, who himself is transgendered.
Student victims
Carole Benowitz, Florida state coordinator for PFLAG, agrees. Her adult son is gay.
Benowitz said that two years ago - at a Broward high school she declined to name - she was called in after a group of boys beat up another student, whom they believed to be an effeminate boy. In fact, the victim was transgendered - a biological female who looked, dressed and behaved like a male. Benowitz was brought in to counsel the administrators, the students and the victim.
"People have an understanding
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Good news for the private schools in the area.
Just plain sad
The proper cure is to arrest the "mental health professionals" who think that catering to a child's damaging delusions is a form of care.
Mental health professionals
Well, there's the problem.................
and the parents of this 5 year old must be real winners.
As has been said many times before, a lot of five-year-olds think they're Luke Skywalker, that doesn't mean we pull them out of school and start giving them light saber training.
Years ago, they announced out of SF that autopsies had shown that gays had a smaller than normal hypothalimus.
The next morning the announce for Rush Limbaugh announced him as the man with the largest known hypothalimus.
Rush then came on and said that this was great news, now we can identify them before birth and abort them. That was last ever heard about that theory.
What do you think the other parents are going to say when they find out that there is a boy in the girl's room?
"Mommy, why is Mary different than me down there? Why can she have one and I don't. She let me touch it, but it felt ickkie".
It's a liberal dogma. If they say it loud and long enough, not only do they believe it themselves but some of the sheeple do also.
When my nephew was five, he wanted to be a kangaroo. If he had lived in this school district, I guess he'd still be wearing a furry 'roo costume.
These liberal idiots should be arrested for endangering the welfare of a child.
What if he believed he was a dog? A 40-year old? A Cuban refugee? Would they cater to that too?
Do you realize they started 'examining' him when he was THREE??
Not as bad as Avian Dysphoria, though. I knew a guy who used to stay on the roof of the school and who took a dump on peopl e as they passed. (of course, he wasn't the one who thought he was a bird, he was just really weird...)
ping
You know predidio9, it's statements like this that hurt the rebellion. The rebel alliance is desparately in need of padoin jedis-in-training and our recruiting budget gets slashed all the time.
/h
...and now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
"As has been said many times before, a lot of five-year-olds think they're Luke Skywalker, that doesn't mean we pull them out of school and start giving them light saber training."
This statement made me laugh, it's so true. My 3 yr old daughter thinks she's Ariel (The Little Mermaid), but I don't let her swim in the pool by herself (which she assures me she can do).
I was one of those in the 80's. Or was it the 70's?
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