Posted on 06/28/2015 2:35:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
This is a disturbing, or perhaps better described as heartbreaking story which popped up this weekend and set off all sorts of alarm bells for me. NBC News is featuring the tale of a child named Lia (until recently, Liam) who is being fully encouraged and supported by his parents on a “journey” to become a girl. The child is ten years old and began this “trip” at the age of five.
We moved from Indiana to New Hampshire when Lia was 4. She was still wearing boys’ clothes and playing with trucks through preschool, but she really wanted girl things. We started buying her Barbie dolls and girl’s costumes.
For awhile, Lia was happy wearing pink dress shirts outside and princess costumes at home. Family and friends were curious, but no one made us feel judged. However, It was when she started kindergarten, that we saw the dysphoria start, the depression and anger. It was clear she couldn’t be comfortable anymore.
Lia is the most mild-mannered, peaceful warrior, a deep thinking, soul-searching child. The minute she begins talking, it’s just pure love. But we could see the frustration building in her.
She would say desperately, “Why can’t I just be a girl, Mommy?” At just 5 years old, she would look in the mirror in the bathroom and say, “I am a girl in my head and heart.”
This goes further than a young boy being dressed up in a skirt. The parents have already gone through the legal process and changed his name from Liam to Lia. But even that, while no doubt opening the door to all sorts of confusion, isn’t the most serious aspect of what’s going on here. The introduction to the article (and the soon to air television special) informs us that Lia will soon take hormone blockers to ward off puberty.
Let me repeat that in another way just to ensure that no person reading this misses what’s going on here. The parents of this prepubescent ten year old boy have found a doctor willing to work with them and are about to chemically alter his body to halt the onset of puberty.
Just in case anyone misinterprets where I’m coming down on this story, I would insert one exhortation to the public at this point. Is there nobody in the state of New Hampshire who can call Child Protective Services, find a public defender and/or judge, call the police, or do something… ANYTHING… to get this child out of that home?
When these stories crop up in the media on a regular basis involving adults, I’ll admit that I’m a bit conflicted as to how to react. Part of it is, no doubt, a hesitancy to dig into the complicated matters of what sorts of behavior do or do not qualify as true mental disorders of a medical nature and the difficulty we have in dealing with many of them. There’s also the issue of individual choice and personal responsibility to consider. If you are over the age of 18 and want to dress as you wish, alter your system with chemicals or whatever else, I lean toward saying that it’s your choice as long as you’re willing to deal with the results. Even if you’re a man who wants to go to a doctor and have his privates lopped off or a woman who goes and schedules a procedure to do whatever it is they do to their lady bits, I don’t think it’s my place to say you can’t.
But we’re talking about a ten year old child here. And the process apparently started at the age of five. Something has gone terribly wrong in that house and this child is in serious peril. Are we now at the point where our legal system will take the “decisions” of a five year old into serious consideration on such a permanent, life altering situation? We don’t allow children to get a tattoo, give meaningful consent for sexual intercourse or even take an aspirin (without adult supervision) until a decade or more later than that. Last winter I saw a nephew in the same age group answer the question of what he wanted to be when he grew up. He responded by saying a fire truck. Not a fire fighter. A fire truck. It was a hilarious moment around the Christmas tree, but it also reminds me now that I wouldn’t be leaving it up to him as to whether or not he should start on hormone therapy next week.
But our media has clearly enabled all sorts of insanity to now be taken as normal and it’s spreading in dangerous ways. I can only hope that this television special will draw some attention and get someone on the case here, not to mention seeing if this is going on in other homes as well. Whatever doctor agreed to do this not only needs to have their license taken away… they should be in jail. And Liam needs to be gotten out of that home and into the care of a responsible adult.
I only hope it’s not too late. This isn’t an abstract question of social debate. This is a crime in progress.
What do you mean? The parents probably did all of this to prevent CPS from taking their child from them.
Apparently the boy learned that the best way to get the attention he wanted was to appeal to his parents’ insanity.
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A man’s reproductive system fits the need and design of a woman’s. A person is an actual descendant of the ethnicity of their parents. And a father’s DNA will remain male regardless of how many hormones he takes, dresses he buys, or body parts he removes.
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Sadly that seems to be so. God help us all
Thanks to our "evolving" education system, they're "learning" earlier and earlier.
That’s what it is in nearly every case of this.
There is something wrong with them. A sane parent says, “You can dress up!” Five minutes with scissors and safety pins, and you’ve got a Jedi robe.
TLC keeps on running a new reality show involving a boy named “Jazz” who is “Transgender” and wants to be a girl..sickening, its the parents that ram this crap into the kids heads ruining them, obviously liberal douche bags.
TLC is a stupid channel anyway and no one should watch it
spot on, the essence of their every policy and thought
> I call bs on a five year old asking such a question. This is totally the parents. Children have no idea what sexuality is.
Bet this child is being molested by some adult. Perverted!
IF this isn’t a controved false flag story I’ll agree. Kids don’t think about this type of nonsense. They’re too busy playing and being kids. This sounds more like the rambling nonsense of a mentally ill homonazified liberal intent on ensuring their kids turn out gay for attention, sympathy, or payola. This is just another examply that proves why Leftists are a cancer to society.
Just remember this is not the first time this has happened.
Using drugs to halt puberty has already been done in places like California with lesbian parents trying to change their son to a girl.
It is sick and depraved
Munchausen by proxy.
Liberals think that gender roles are a social construct, and then say we have to make a boy who follows girls’ social patterns a girl by altering his body.
You can either have:
A. gender and sex are biological, with differences between the two in both mind and body
B. gender roles are social and biology minimal
Transgenderism tries to justify itself by saying man’s brain in woman’s body, but that undermines most of the feminist arguments for the past half century.
That should result in a 20 year sentence for everyone involved.
I totally agree, but yet it is celebrated these days
I believe you have hit the nail on the head. I was reading an article not too long ago about a woman who, instead of having a little girl like she really wanted, had a little boy. The article went on to describe how much the woman basically hated that she had a boy instead of a girl because she (the woman) didn’t know how or want to do “boy things”. Then the article moved on to how the little boy wanted to wear some kind of specially decorated training diaper with, I think, Dora The Explorer on them, but they weren’t made to soak up pee in the front of the diaper. Oh how the little boy loved to do more girly things and the mother was so pleased. And all the time I’m reading the article I’m thinking, kids are not stupid, this poor little boy knew you wanted a girl, knew you liked girls better and is just doing what he thinks he needs to do to get your love and approval. Very sad.
Isn’t TLC the abbreviation for The Learning ChanneL? I think The Loony Channel would be a better description for it.
> Liberalism is the denial of human nature. It results in great damage to people.
Liberalism and Satanism seem to share many of the same traits. I would guess its because both flow from the same source.
I get the impression the parents wanted a girl, and would rather mutilate their son than have another kid.
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