Some don't grow out of it, or more properly they learn it's okay to hunt, fish, and shoot, and still enjoy being female.
Posted on 05/30/2014 3:47:43 AM PDT by EinNYC
Proud parents from San Diego have shared their story of having a transgender son who became a boy aged just 5-years-old. Jeff and Hillary Whittington presented a touching video showing little Ryland's female-to-male transition as they were honored at the 6th annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast last Thursday. The stirring footage revealed how Ryland suffered severe hearing problems when she was just 12-months-old and was fitted with cochlear implants.
"I am a boy," the long blonde haired toddler reportedly declared to her parents after the operation and learning to speak.
Despite her room being painted pink and being dressed in girly outfits, her parents said she preferred masculine toys and activities.
Confused as to what to do, the Whittingtons believed it was a phase that would soon pass. But, on turning five, Ryland started concretely rejecting all things feminine. "When the family dies, I will cut my hair so I could be a boy," Ryland reportedly told her parents, later adding: "Why did God make me like this?"
Jeff Whittington, a former firefighter-turned-real estate agent, and wife Hillary began researching the issue - and soon decided the answer was that their girl was transgender.
Terrified to learn about the high suicide rate associated with transgender people who feel socially unaccepted, they decided to properly embrace Ryland's identity.
"Ryland's gender identity was not caused by our parenting style, family structure or environmental factors," the couple stated in the 7-minute montage.
They cut off their infant's long hair, bought new clothes and started referring to Ryland as a male. His room was also redecorated.
The footage then showed Ryland playing soccer and baseball, wearing ties and dancing with a flower girl at a wedding reception.
"Relative to the horrific things people have to endure with their children all over the world, this is nothing," his parents added.
The video was played before the couple accepted the event's Inspiration Award, reports LGBT Weekly.
A short-haired Ryland, dressed in a smart suit, also took to the stage to say: "My name is Ryland Michael Whittington. I am a transgender kid."
Jeff Whittingon, speaking afterwards to the emotional 1,000-strong audience, claimed "one of the most inspiring things Harvey Milk had done" was "to encourage people to come out."
"To let their voices be heard; break down the walls, break down the barriers and start allowing people to see them for their authentic selves and be true to themselves," he said.
"This is our coming out [...] this is us making our voices heard," he added.
Uploaded to YouTube Tuesday, the video has already been seen more than 250,000 times.
“Ryland’s gender identity was not caused by our parenting style, family structure or environmental factors,” the couple stated in the 7-minute montage. …Sure it wasn’t.
there is a demonic cause for all these transgender cases.
No, she didn't.
Good job, mom & dad. Now, can you say child abuse?
There is a very special place in hell for these parents.
The hidden fact is 60-70% of the confused people who get gender surgery come back to get the process REVERSED in a year !
The guys who became woman have a real problem!
Lots of lawsuits fly regarding this !
Its a dirty little secret the Left wing media does not want to share !
I have encountered this in the past. Where a dominant attached spirit created an identity in the host of their own gender.
Problem is, if this is not resolved at an early age, the hosts individual identity does not develop and they go into a severe depression when you remove the attached spirit.
One of my daughters rejects most things feminine, and I'm okay with that. She still follows the stream to catch salamanders and comes back muddy. She shoots shotgun better than any of my other kids (typically 23/25 or better in trap). She'd far rather wear practical jeans or shorts than something that interferes with tree climbing. I'm okay with all that. None of it makes her "transgender" or in any other way mentally ill.
It takes a special kind of mental illness to harm your child and help a little girl to deny reality in order to further a political agenda. It disappoints me when liberal parents feel no shame.
Underlying all these stories is the sex thing and they all .... all .... end up with something goes into another.
What the hell is a dominant attached spirit ?
that used to be called a tom-boy; we all assumed they’d grow out it, I guess they did.
I think Jeff and Hillary Whittington need to be removed from the gene pool ASAP. It’s WAY TOO shallow in their end...
He’s talking about a form of possession.
It’s all too real and children are often vulnerable open vessels for this sort of attachment.
This is especially true if the parents have no foundation in faith and scripture as a way of warding off such evil.
Some don't grow out of it, or more properly they learn it's okay to hunt, fish, and shoot, and still enjoy being female.
Parents should be thrown in jail.
There’s a hypocrisy to LGBTQ folks. They decry social norms in regards to what is masculine and feminine then state matter of factly that a girl who acts in a typically masculine fashion is transgendered. If a girl doesn’t like pink and wants short hair, it doesn’t mean she’s a man.
The Whittingtons are a POS.
Pure child abuse
They probably won’t let her change her mind later, like the little boy whose lesbian parents have him on sex change hormones at 9
Pure child abuse
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