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'I'm a non-binary 10-year-old'
BBC ^ | September 18, 2016 | Leo

Posted on 09/19/2016 7:42:58 AM PDT by Trump20162020

Leo is 10 years old. For most of his life he's lived as a girl, but this summer he began to speak openly about his sense that this didn't feel quite right. With research help for his parents, he's decided he is non-binary - in his case, both masculine and feminine - though for the moment he dresses as a boy and has taken a male name. This is Leo's story in his own words.

I'm not a boy.

I thought I was a boy, because I'm not entirely a girl. We tried that for a bit, and I thought: "No, this is not right."

Then we did some research and we found the word is gender non-binary... and it really works, it's just me.

I don't know what age I was when I identified that I wasn't feeling right.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: attentionwhore; braindamage; britain; childabuse; leo; mentalillness; nonbinary; specialsnowflake; uk; unitedkingdom
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To: Trump20162020

Sorry, kid. The binary is correct. The choice is one or the other, but not both. The choice is made at the moment of conception and is beyond the control of the mother, the father, or the child. This is how it works in nature.

Failure to recognize that is contrary to nature.


61 posted on 09/19/2016 8:30:33 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: AppyPappy

“It’s all about me
It’s all about me
It can’t about thee
It’s too easy to see
It’a all about me”

It’s all about the fakakta parents and the destruction of their child in the name of making a name and getting some money out of it.


62 posted on 09/19/2016 8:40:17 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump will win New York.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I’m curious how a boy or girl “feels” their sex. I knew I was a boy because I had a penis. It wasn’t that complicated. I didn’t feel like I was a boy. I was a boy.


63 posted on 09/19/2016 8:43:08 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Tax-chick
True enough. And by choosing a politically correct form of abuse, the chances of prosecution are lower. What DA is going to go nose-to-nose with the LGBTQ lobby?

So, I suppose it makes sense, in that (horrifically twisted) context. What a nest of snakes the Liberal mind is.

64 posted on 09/19/2016 8:45:00 AM PDT by wbill
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To: I want the USA back
The choice is one or the other, but not both

yep. And, in the exceptionally rare (1 in a million, if what I've read on FR is correct) cases where it is indeed "Both" or "Neither" .... we'll figure out a way to deal with it. No need to let a few hundred people hold an entire nation hostage.

Someone needs to explain to the kid, "Sometimes you don't like the cards you're dealt, but you still gotta play 'em." My guess is there's no Dad on the scene, or he's a neutered nebbish.

65 posted on 09/19/2016 8:48:57 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Trump20162020

A binary 10 year old is 2 decimal years old.


66 posted on 09/19/2016 8:52:00 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: AppyPappy
When WBill Jr. was younger, one day he wanted to dress up as a girl for some "dress up day" at school. Nothing sexual, or ambiguous about it....he just thought that it would be a funny goof. "No.", I said. And that was that. He's never mentioned it again.

Where's this kid's father? Or, even, just someone to say "No." and/or explain the facts of life to this poor kid.

Having raised a kid, and been around plenty of them in the process, I can't even imagine this topic coming up. Granted, I live in a conservative small-town, but the conversation, "Dad, I think I'm a binary gender" would uniformly be met with "Nope. You're not." and that would be the end of the conversation. The kid would grow up to be well-adjusted and happy, and life would continue on.

67 posted on 09/19/2016 8:57:21 AM PDT by wbill
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To: JimRed

Its one thing when a kid is batty, but the adults that go along need to be shot along their vertical axis from the bottom.


68 posted on 09/19/2016 8:57:34 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: RU88
< The parents need as much counseling as the child, if not more so!

Counseling would never work. There's only one solution. Take their kid away. I'll lay odds it has same sex parents though.

69 posted on 09/19/2016 9:21:46 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Gaffer

Or (God forbid...) OCTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


70 posted on 09/19/2016 9:28:38 AM PDT by Mr. K (<a href="https://imgflip.com/i/1adpjl"><img src="https://i.imgflip.com/1adpjl.jpg" title="made at im)
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To: Trump20162020

Fido is 70 dog-years old. For most of his life he’s lived as a person, but this summer he began to speak openly about his sense that this didn’t feel quite right. With research help for his parents, he’s decided he is non-binary - in his case, both human and canine - though for the moment he dresses as a doggie and has taken a doggie name. This is Fido’s story in his own words.

I’m not a human.

I thought I was a human, because I’m not entirely a doggie. We tried that for a bit, and I thought: “No, this is too ruff.”

Then I fetched some research and we found the word is species non-binary... and it really works, it’s just me.

I don’t know what age I was when I identified that I had been barking up the wrong tree.

Actually I told my teacher first. I got really frustrated because I asked why none of the kids got dog’s parts in a play that we were doing. Plus they never let me lift my leg on fire hydrants, and they looked at me funny when I sniffed trees. It wasn’t right.

I pulled her over and said: “I’m not a human.”


71 posted on 09/19/2016 9:37:06 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Trump20162020
Bad child/bad word
72 posted on 09/19/2016 9:40:06 AM PDT by Daffynition (*If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?*~ Gene Wilder)
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To: wbill

I would explain scientifically why they are incorrect. I’m a programmer and the binary switch is either on or off. There is no ambiguous in my world.


73 posted on 09/19/2016 9:41:55 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Trump20162020

Confused parents ==> Confused Children


74 posted on 09/19/2016 10:17:58 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (when the MSM wants your opinion, they will give it to you)
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To: Trump20162020

So, is he neither a “0” or a “1”, or some other base entirely?


75 posted on 09/19/2016 11:20:30 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Gaffer

Oh my, someone after my own heart!


76 posted on 09/19/2016 11:21:01 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: AppyPappy

Then there are those dang analog computers...or hybrids...


77 posted on 09/19/2016 11:24:34 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Trump20162020

Yes, the center of the universe!
It’s all about me!!


78 posted on 09/19/2016 11:26:40 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: To Hell With Poverty

That was my near-non-binary moment. As in ZIP - Zilch - Zero.

Those things should come with warning tags.


79 posted on 09/19/2016 11:43:37 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: AppyPappy

Sometimes I feel like a binary switch in an analog world.


80 posted on 09/19/2016 12:12:43 PM PDT by wbill
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