Posted on 07/10/2006 11:32:19 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle
Broward County schools' progressive policy on transgendered children will be tested by the admission to kindergarten this fall of a boy who believes that he's a girl.
BY ROBERTO SANTIAGO rsantiago@MiamiHerald.com
One little girl entering Broward County kindergarten this fall is actually a boy.
Few will know this genetic truth, because the 5-year-old's parents and school administrators have agreed that it's in his best interest to blend in as a female.
Mental health professionals have diagnosed Pat -- not his real name -- with gender dysphoria, a condition in which a person believes that he or she is the opposite gender. After two years of examination, they have determined that he is not simply effeminate or going through a phase.
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Look at all the goofy links next to the article.
It is sick the sort of pshycological trama they are causing this youth in the name of the church of liberalism.
Well, the girls are gonna figure it out pretty quickly.
He "believes" he's a girl. Does he also still believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the moon being made of cheese, and dreaming of being a superhero when he grows up?
Rest of article:
"Gender dysphoria can take place during a fetus' development in the womb,'' said noted gender specialist and sexologist Marilyn Volker, Ph.D., of Miami.
While this tyke is likely the youngest transgendered child admitted to a South Florida school, he is not unique. Both the Broward and Miami-Dade County school systems have policies in place to smooth the way for such students and their families.
Equality Florida, which advocates for Florida's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, and PFLAG -- Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays -- say the two school districts have the most progressive policies in the state.
Broward and Miami-Dade are among the most exemplary school districts ''when it comes to the rights of transgendered people,'' said Tobias Packer, South Florida Field Organizer for Equality Florida, who himself is transgendered.
Carole Benowitz, Florida state coordinator for PFLAG, agrees. Her adult son is gay.
Benowitz said that two years ago -- at a Broward high school she declined to name -- she was called in after a group of boys beat up another student, whom they believed to be an effeminate boy. In fact, the victim was transgendered -- a biological female who looked, dressed and behaved like a male. Benowitz was brought in to counsel the administrators, the students and the victim.
''People have an understanding of what it means to be gay or lesbian -- but when they hear that a person is genetically one gender but lives as another gender, that threatens a number of people because they don't understand what that means,'' Benowitz said. ``And that misunderstanding can make lives very difficult for transgendered children and their parents.''
''In addition to behaving like the opposite sex, a person with gender dysphoria naturally relates to the opposite sex,'' Volker said. ``They also have a persistent and recurring discomfort with their own external body parts and genitalia because it does not match their internal gender identity. Simply said, they were born into the wrong body.''
Shouldn't this say:
"Broward County Schools decide that a boy should be allowed to secretely share restroom and locker facilities with unsuspecting girls."
There is no genetic component to cross-dressing. There is no clothing gene. We are born naked.
A desire to wear the clothes of the opposite sex is because of psychological factors and cultural conditioning.
How could this be possible with a child? If they have the genitals that they are born with, wouldn't that be accepted in due course? Kind of like accepting your ears if they stick out too much. They are what they are. And there is nothing discomforting or wrong about it.
In case link doesn't work. Ask for registration if you go back more than once:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15003026.htm
Basically, all of the grown people in this picture need to have the **** beat out of them. They kid needs to be in foster care.
Shouldn't this child's gender pscyhological mix up be dealt with before he enters school? And if it is not dealt with before the age of six when most enter first grade wouldn't the parents have a right to claim he is disabled and entitled to a tutor if the public school is not equipped to deal with this disability?
I think they are doing the child a very great evil by not curing the problem.
Maybe not but I do.
He'll change his mind when he gets his first period.
Oh wait, never mind.
They can't punch a voting ballot correctly. The children grow up not knowing which gender they are plumbed to be. What's wrong with this place? Is it the village idiot capital of America? Is it something in the water they drink? Does their geneology tree lack branches? What is it?
Maybe she should ask for a refund, when a 5 year old says he hates his penis then something tells me there is more to the story than meets the eye.....
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