What exactly is girl’s clothes for a third grader? Until my daughters got bras, they dressed little differently than their male counterparts at school. Of course they do wear dresses to church. I can’t say they ever wore a dress to school unless it was for pictures.
How the heck does a 3rd grader have any sort of gender identity. Gender identity comes with sexual maturity. Are they planning on having the kid go through hormone therapy and surgery at his age? The parents must really be loony tunes.
I am so going to home school. She’s only 6 months old now but I don’t want these freaking people robbing her of a childhood so young. OMG. I remember being that age, and that would have freaked me out if the adults acted like they encouraged it.
I bet this kid still gets beat up for it. Despite the “appropriate” counseling.
I'm uncertain what the girls reactions will be, but the boys? Good luck with that.
“The boy” needs to be removed from that household and “the boy’s parents” need to be sterilized.
What a bunch of caca.
Chopping off body parts and attaching new parts with stitches does not change a person’s sex (not gender).
They’re all of them insane and living is some warped Disneyland on Jupiter.
not only can't accept the reality of having a male child, they demand that everyone else must believe in and play along with their sicko fantasy.
Millstones must be on backorder, but they'll get theirs eventually. Ditto for the educrat enablers.
Then again, it is a WNutD article, so there is hope that the report is nonsense.
The tyranny of the minorities continues unabated. 100 third graders have to sit through a boring lecture because one f’ed kid wants to wear girl’s clothes and have a girl’s name.
Horse hockey - kick the kid out of PUBLIC school,fire the Principal for being a horse’s rear and report the “parents” to Child Services for child abuse.
Heard yesterday that in the past year, FIVE THOUSAND kids in Philadelphia schools were caught with weapons. TWO were expelled. And you wonder why the schools are failing to educate our children. And why they are killing each other on a daily basis.
There’s waaay too much tolerance in this country. The perverts should adjust to the majority, not the other way around.
Here’s hoping he gets call a “fag” and beat up by the Girls....
This is absolute nonsense. Parents should never allow this. And I would see that the teachers and school officials were fired pronto. We pay the taxes.
Just thinking back to the 3rd grade, this boy should be riding his bike, playing with toy trucks, playing army, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, catching frogs, throwing rocks, building tree forts, etc.
All the afore mentioned activities are probably illegal.
There is probably a legitimate point here.
Science has long known that, in mammals, about halfway through fetal development, if a fetus is male, it is *supposed* to emit a small amount of testosterone from its testes, that goes to its brain, which tells its brain that it is a “male brain”.
If the testosterone does not get there, by default, the brain thinks it is female.
Animals do the mating behavior their brains tell them to do, no matter what genitalia they have. However, people are more complex. So if a male human has a female brain, he may still be heterosexual, but have strong feminine traits in his personality, and visa versa. Human sexuality is far more complex than having a “male” or “female” brain.
However, today there are lots of chemicals in our environment that can screw up this process. A major one is plant estrogens, which are sprayed on plants to enhance their growth. They are very similar to human estrogen, which can interfere with that bit of fetal testosterone. Two foods, especially, are loaded with natural plant estrogens, tofu and yams.
The government has been aware of this since the 1960s, and has been very concerned that these chemicals could cause the widespread feminization of American male children. But they have done nothing to stop it. And while there has been *some* increase in femininity in a few male children, the effects have not been widespread, yet.
However, there are now more male children being born with very female brains. This implies that their mother got either a big dose of estrogen during her pregnancy, or some other chemical that inhibited the testosterone from reaching her male child’s brain during gestation.
In this case, this 3rd grader is psychologically a girl, even though he has male genitalia, and well before sexuality is an issue.
It is hard to imagine what a normal girl would feel if she was forced to dress, behave and associate with only boys, and to act like them, even though she saw other girls and how they behaved, and wanted to be like them.
In past, there have been cases of children who were forced by their mentally ill parents to cross dress and behave as the opposite gender, which often resulted in severe anguish in those children.
So in this circumstance, more than anything else, I would suggest a lot of sympathy and consideration before taking sides. If the child is utterly female psychologically, it may be in their best interest to receive gender modification. But this is an intensely difficult decision.
And one that it may be best to decide before the onset of puberty.
If I was the parent of a child in that school, I’d tell the school to go F themselves and put my child in private school.
Well, without knowing any of the facts, but with a reasonable working knowledge of Children's Hospital, I call BS.
Facts, please.