Posted on 10/17/2009 5:15:56 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Josie Romero loves the colour pink, braiding her hair and having her fingernails painted.
But life has not always been easy for this sweet and charming eight-year-old, who was born in the body of a boy.
The transgender youngster, then called Joseph, knew at the age of four that she was the wrong sex and even told her parents: 'I am really a girl.'
At five, she was refusing to have her hair cut and only wore colours like orange which were nearest to girly pink.
By the time she reached six, Josie had been diagnosed as transgender and was beginning her transition to becoming a female.
Mother Venessia, 42, said: 'When she was a toddler, she was always trying to turn her boy toys into girl toys.
'She used to take her army figures, wrap them up and rock them like a baby.
'As she grew older and started to talk, she always said: "I'm a girl".
'We used to correct her and say: "No you're a boy".
'But by the time she was four, she was insisting: "No I really am a girl".
'We started to realise she wasn't just playing. She would always correct anyone who called her a boy.
'She'd wrap one of my scarves around her waist to make a skirt. It was her favourite game.'
Venessia and her husband Joseph, 42, an airforce engineer, from Vail, Arizona, made the brave decision to tell their daughter's story to help other parents of transexual youngsters.
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UK society is sick since it rejected Christianity. Islam wants to “cure” that sickness.
The parents of this boy should do thirty years.Any “physicians” responsible for this boy’s gender “change” should do fifty.
Well it certainly seems as if “she” has a female brain ,, I certainly hope that this works out.
The parents of this poor creature belong in jail. WHAT IN HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE FREAKS???????????
They cant fool God.
He has a difficult life ahead.
Words fail ...
What concerns me is that the Mother did the healthier thing and did adopt a girl. And then the son continued to want to be a daughter, whether to gain more maternal approval or from biological failings, I don’t know.
Suicide by 30.
...certainly doesn't change the that pesky chromosome thing.
Unbelievable.
This little boy obviously has a mental health disorder.
So sad that the parents, doctor and so many of those making comments about the article feel that the little boy should be hormonally altered and surgically mutilated in response to his disorder.
Medical-wise, couldn’t there be a possibility though, that this child was really meant to be a girl, perhaps somehow while forming in the womb some signals got crossed somehow. So while the rest of him/her was in agreement that she would be a she, the lower part didn’t get the message right and developed male genitalia? I’m not advocating a sex change at 8, just wondering about the possibility of something like that happening. (runs for cover now!)
Man Hands.
So we’re mainstreaming child abuse now in the name of Political Correctness? How vogue.
I think so. I know of someone, who although definitely a woman, when she had surgery for an unrelated issue, they told her there were some male parts inside her...or words to that effect.
And I have an male acquaintance who at age 12 had an appendectomey and when it was over the surgeon looked around a bit and found two ovaries. He removed them and a vestigal uterus also.
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