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Finding himself
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 18, 2017 | Ryan Kost

Posted on 06/17/2017 5:33:27 PM PDT by artichokegrower

It was early still, not much past 6 a.m., and James Kaplan was already dressed for the first day of third grade. The night before, his mom, Sara, pulled out the iron and he helped press the wrinkles out of his light blue polo. “My first time ironing,” he said. For the past month, he’d been pushing his parents to let him wear a suit to school. James, whose ninth birthday was a couple of months away, thought it was a sharp look.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda
Some eight months before, James had told his parents his “inner person was a boy.” The round-cheeked 8-year-old they’d always thought was their daughter was actually their son.


No this is your daughter. You are opening up the door for much misery in this child's future to satisfy you twisted world view.

1 posted on 06/17/2017 5:33:28 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Please, please, please give California its freedom . . . and build a WALL all the way around it!!!


2 posted on 06/17/2017 5:36:02 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: artichokegrower

These people need jailed for child abuse. Maybe they need to spend less time with their “couples therapist”.


3 posted on 06/17/2017 5:38:32 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: artichokegrower

Instead of getting her the mental health help she so desperately needs, the parents are being irresponsible and playing along with this farce. The problem isn’t below the neckline, it’s above it.


4 posted on 06/17/2017 5:41:18 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: artichokegrower

“Finding himself” in a nuthouse. And the parents should be finding themselves on the ducking stool.


5 posted on 06/17/2017 5:41:47 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: artichokegrower

Today I decided I am no longer a low-wage hourly worker, I am the manager. And, it’s just because I DECIDED to identify as a manager. I feel like a manager, I should be a manager, therefore I am the manager. There. I feel much better.


6 posted on 06/17/2017 5:45:22 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Meh!

Today I’m a RACOON..!!!


7 posted on 06/17/2017 5:46:49 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Good.

Give yourself a raise.


8 posted on 06/17/2017 5:50:03 PM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: artichokegrower

Satire . . . for now:

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It was early still, not much past 6 a.m., and Boomer Kaplan was already dressed for the first day of Obedience School. The night before, his owner, Sara, pulled out the doggie collar and he watched in the mirror as she put it around his neck. “My first time taking a walk on a leash,” he said. For the past month, he’d been pushing his parents to let him avail himself of a tree or a hydrant. Boomer, whose ninth birthday was a couple of months away, thought it was a relief to relieve himself naturally.

But after some back and forth, they’d settled on the dark leather collar that Sara was now fitting around his neck. Charley, James’ 4-year-old brother, still in his pajamas, pointed at him. “Good doggie, Boomer. Good doggie!” James collapsed on the floor, staring through the windows at a moon that he knew made his new doggie want to howl.

“How you feelin’?” Boomer’s other owner, Ben, called from the kitchen. “Ruff,” James said. “But ready to chase my own tail.”

He wasn’t just thinking about his first day of Obedience School. He was thinking about the beginning of his first full school year as Boomer.

Some eight months before, Boomer had told his parents his “inner person was a puppy.” The round-cheeked 8-year-old they’d always thought was their daughter was actually their pet. It was something he’d been trying to tell them — something he’d been trying to understand for himself — for more than a year.

Sara and Ben considered themselves progressive, but they didn’t know the first thing about raising a trans-species puppy. In the days that followed, they would talk to family, to friends and to their couples therapist. They would take James shopping for “dog collars” and to a “dog groomer.”

They had to get to know their first-born all over again. They loved him as they always had, but there was this sense that maybe they didn’t really know him. And, if they were being honest, he was different — lighter and smiling and more apt to wag his tail.

Boomer took James into the bathroom, put some pomade in his hands and started running them through his curly golden retriever hair. “I always liked starting a new class,” Boomer said. “It’s like a fresh start.”

James nodded, then smoothed out bits of hair Boomer had missed. “And for me, it’ll be nice to take an intelligent and trained retriever duck hunting,” he said.

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Stay tuned for next year’s update. Boomer and his owners are excited about the 2018 Westminster Dog Show. They point out that transsexuals are winning lots of girls’ athletic events, and they plan on hiring a lawyer to force the Westminster Kennel Club to allow Boomer to compete as the breed with which he identifies - and not to penalize him for whatever pre-transition anatomical details may not measure up to their bigoted and outdated standards.


9 posted on 06/17/2017 5:57:00 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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“They’re insured through Medi-Cal, which means Sara has had to spend hours on the phone, getting the right exemptions and exceptions so James can go to the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, a leader in treating transgender children, where physicians monitor his march toward puberty.”

So the taxpayers have to fund this twisted concept of parenting.


10 posted on 06/17/2017 5:59:46 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

At the end of the article their 3 y/o son is now becoming a girl!!!!!!CRAZY.


11 posted on 06/17/2017 6:02:00 PM PDT by therut
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Sara and Ben considered themselves progressive...

And therein lies the whole problem.

I assure you that these looney-tunes went out of their way to let this child know that they (THEY) thought she was a boy in disguise or whatever they call it.

This is child abuse, nothing more, nothing less...mental child abuse and this child will be screwed in the head for the rest of her life.

These people are absolutely bat-shit morons.

May God have mercy on their souls and may He guide this child in what is going to be a hell of a road because of the stupidity of the parents.

12 posted on 06/17/2017 6:05:02 PM PDT by OldSmaj (The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
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To: artichokegrower

40% of transgenders commit suicide. 48% of trans teens commit suicide. These are children whose parents approve the gender switch.


13 posted on 06/17/2017 6:05:26 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: artichokegrower

Scanning down to the bottom of the article it says that the little brother Charley, 5 years old, is now living as a girl named Olivia.


14 posted on 06/17/2017 6:14:36 PM PDT by chronicles
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To: Pollster1

Great satire. Thanks for the grin.


15 posted on 06/17/2017 6:23:14 PM PDT by upchuck (... you might not be interested in Shariah; however Shariah is interested in you. h/t dogcaller)
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16 posted on 06/17/2017 6:32:01 PM PDT by Daffynition ("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: artichokegrower
Article from 2015:More.
17 posted on 06/17/2017 6:36:52 PM PDT by upchuck (... you might not be interested in Shariah; however Shariah is interested in you. h/t dogcaller)
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Times 2, because now HER little brother thinks he’s a girl.

Two transgenders in the same family. Riiiight...


18 posted on 06/17/2017 6:37:58 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Pollster1

“The round-cheeked 8-year-old they’d always thought was their daughter was actually their pet. “

Love it! Great parody!


19 posted on 06/17/2017 6:43:01 PM PDT by livius
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To: chronicles

OMG!


20 posted on 06/18/2017 2:13:05 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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