"To claim that we are condoning sexual immorality in our home is nonsense," Thompson said. "We are Christians. We understand the Bible. Sunnie knows it very well. She has accepted Christ."
Thompson says Kahle is simply a tomboy, and that she's too young to understand sexual orientation or gender issues.
Thompson has raised Kahle since she was an infant. When she turned five, Thompson said she asked for a short hair cut.
“She had hair down to her waist and she wanted to give it to a child with cancer,” said Thompson. “After we cut her hair she started wanting to wear jeans and a t-shirt. She didn’t want to wear her frilly dresses anymore.”
Her appearance started leading to awkward questions at school.
Kahle said her classmates would occasionally ask if she was a boy or a girl, but she said the question did not hurt her feelings.
The issue caught the attention of administrators at Timberlake Christian School, where Kahle was a student.
Elementary principal Becky Bowman sent home a letter last month, reminding Thompson of the school’s religious affiliation and it’s right to refuse students who contradict a “biblical lifestyle.”
I was SUCH a tomboy until middle school it was insane. Then I started to become attracted to boys in a way other than wanting to play football with them. They were actually rather cute! This poor young girl is being treated poorly by the “Christian” leadership of that school. Shame on them.
Christian school. Their rules. If they don’t like it, they need to go somewhere else.
They, TCS, are right!
I think the grandmother is right and the school is being ridiculous, but they have the right to do that and the grandmother should just put the child in a different school. I doubt that the little girl would be very happy continuing in such a flaky school environment anyway.
I think there is more to this than the school is allowed do publicly discuss.
So now everyone is super-sensitive about "gender assignment" (stupid bastards can't even speak correctly).
Just let kids be kids and teach them to accept themselves as they are.
Of course, saying Jesus in a public school is now a crime and the Christian is subject to discipline.
I guess being a tomboy is against the rules of Timberlake Christian School. The school’s board must be run by idiots.
I wonder if we could use that against the supreme court..?
The responses supporting the school in this manner make me want to hurl. She’s an eight year old girl for pete’s sake.
My youngest daughter, who looked anything but like a boy, always said when she was young that she wanted to be a boy.
I made no issue about it and she hit puberty and changed her mind. She was a tomboy for a while, dressed like a boy, but the feminine side kicked in and now she’s all girl.
And VERY interested in boys.
I still pity the boy who tried to get fresh with her. She already put one boy on the ground when she was in junior high with one well aimed blow for trying something. He left her alone after that. :)
NOW I go to Weight Watchers because I DIDN'T stay as active as MOST tomboys.
OK, so I was completely on the side of the grandparents until this line:
“She said the only disciplinary issue that Kahle might have caused was that she wanted to wear boy’s pants as part of her school uniform.”
So it’s not just that she’s a tomboy. It’s that her g.parents are encouraging her to press the issue to the point that it violates school rules. The child *is* to young to understand all this crap. If she doesn’t want to wear a skirt, the g.parents should’ve told her that this is the uniform - period - and never allowed the issue to get to the school.
I’m sure there is more to this story.
Just where in the heck is Campbell County? It would help if you let us know with the headline.
As I’ve mentioned many times here on FR, I’m a Christian and former lesbian. And when I was young, I was also a tomboy who pretended to be male. It distresses me to no end to see very young children, as young as nursery school, encouraged by their families to work towards becoming the opposite sex. This grandmother can’t be unaware that this is the world we live in today. (And as an aside, something clicked when reading about the Justina Pelletier case today — they are one of the “leading” hospitals on basically sex changes for children, which I doubt is all coincidence). The link to the actual letter in post 7 is now disabled, but what says the most to me right now, like at least one other poster said, is the family’s decision to go the media.
Time magazine quotes the grandmother saying, after the remark on them being Christian, “If my (grandchild) grows up to be homosexual or transgendered, I will love her that much more.” They deleted something in between in her remarks, so the context isn’t clear, but altogether it seems at this point that this family wants transgenderism accepted by the church. At another site a school administrator insisted that it wasn’t just Sunnie being a tomboy, but her presence was a classroom disruption. I believe it’s very likely that the family was doing a little promoting of transgenderism, despite what they say. The antichrist spirit does not have integrity.
I married a tomboy 39 years ago and counting. Yaaa-Hooo!