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What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?
NY Slimes ^ | 8/9/12 | RUTH PADAWER

Posted on 08/09/2012 11:31:59 AM PDT by wolfman23601

The night before Susan and Rob allowed their son to go to preschool in a dress, they sent an e-mail to parents of his classmates. Alex, they wrote, “has been gender-fluid for as long as we can remember, and at the moment he is equally passionate about and identified with soccer players and princesses, superheroes and ballerinas (not to mention lava and unicorns, dinosaurs and glitter rainbows).” They explained that Alex had recently become inconsolable about his parents’ ban on wearing dresses beyond dress-up time. After consulting their pediatrician, a psychologist and parents of other gender-nonconforming children, they concluded that “the important thing was to teach him not to be ashamed of who he feels he is.” Thus, the purple-pink-and-yellow-striped dress he would be wearing that next morning. For good measure, their e-mail included a link to information on gender-variant children.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: crossdresser; homosexualagenda; junkscience; pseudoscience; sexualizingchildren; transagenda; transgender
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To: roylene; Paladin2
A kilt is not a dress.

Where I grew up, if a boy wore a dress, he might get kilt.

61 posted on 08/09/2012 12:51:57 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Free people, when presented only with evil choices, create other choices.(EternalVigilance))
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To: The_Victor

Right on!


62 posted on 08/09/2012 12:56:23 PM PDT by Salamander (I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies who never conceived of us billion dollar babies.)
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To: Pollster1
"those who would wear a kilt are 100% male, and usually tough. "

That's why they call them commandos.

63 posted on 08/09/2012 12:56:23 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Snickering Hound

A group of Pekin Illinois bikers were riding west on I-74 when they saw a girl about to jump off the Murray Baker Bridge. So they stopped.

George, their leader, a big burly man of 53, gets off his Harley, walks through a group of gawkers, past the State Trooper, and says, “What are you doing?”

She says, “I’m going to commit suicide.”

While he didn’t want to appear “sensitive,” he didn’t want to miss a be-a-legend opportunity either so he asked “Well, before you jump, why don’t you give me a kiss?”

So, with no hesitation at all, she leaned back over the railing and did just that... and it was a long, deep, lingering kiss followed immediately by another one.

After they finished, George gets approval from his biker-buddies, the onlookers, and even the State Trooper, and says, “Wow! That was the best kiss I have ever had, Honey! That’s a real talent you’re wasting, Sugar Shorts. You could be famous if you rode with me. Why are you committing suicide?”

“My parents don’t like me dressing up like a girl.”

It’s still unclear whether she jumped or was pushed.


64 posted on 08/09/2012 1:07:22 PM PDT by rocksblues (Being a Liberal means never having to mean it when you apologize.)
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To: The_Victor

Thanks! That picture’s a keeper...


65 posted on 08/09/2012 1:31:46 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: NCLaw441

Bingo- You win for actually making me laugh out loud - thanks!


66 posted on 08/09/2012 1:34:57 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: wolfman23601

some parents are just idiots


67 posted on 08/09/2012 2:04:25 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: wolfman23601

There is a lot of confusion here, and justifiably, because we are talking about two different things.

Gender identity is *not* the same as sexual attraction.

There are lots of people, even adults, who have confused gender identity, but are heterosexual. And yes, there are many who are both gender confused and homosexual. But the two things are not identical.

Unlike hetero- and homosexuality, gender identity has a distinct biological cause. About halfway through gestation, the testes of male fetuses secrete testosterone, which travels to their brain and tells it, it is a “male” brain. If it does not arrive, the brain is by default “female”.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of natural and artificial chemicals that can interfere with this process, either blocking the testosterone or that are chemically similar to testosterone.

For this reason, there are increasing numbers of children who have confused gender identity. But importantly, this does *not* determine who they will become sexually attracted to, which is independent of this.

In practical terms, this means more boys who are interested in feminine things, like girl’s toys and clothing and activities, or who tend to sexual androgyny. Fewer girls seem to be affected than boys, however.


68 posted on 08/09/2012 2:05:14 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Elendur

Interesting point about a double-standard there.


69 posted on 08/09/2012 2:08:50 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: st.eqed

Whatever you say—I’m supposing you are a bona fide authority on the subject...


70 posted on 08/09/2012 2:10:07 PM PDT by basil (Second Amendment Sisters.org)
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To: wolfman23601

This reminds me of a scene from the movie Slap Shot, before you can say Jack Robinson.


71 posted on 08/09/2012 2:11:40 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Holding my nose one more time to get rid of Eric Holder)
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To: Responsibility2nd
There is no gay gene.

Probably quite true. However.

Most birth defects are not the result of a gene. They are the result of a gene that doesn't implement properly during growth of the fetus, or of environmental factors during pregnancy.

IOW, the genetic code is like the blueprint of a house. If the completed house leaks, it is more likely the result of a failure to properly follow the plans than it is of the plan itself.

I strongly suspect some children are, sadly, born with strong cross-gender tendencies, possibly due to hormonal shifts in the mother at crucial stages in development.

But genes probably have little or nothing to do with it.

72 posted on 08/09/2012 2:13:47 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: wolfman23601
After consulting their pediatrician, a psychologist and parents of other gender-nonconforming children, they concluded that “the important thing was to teach him not to be ashamed of who he feels he is.”

D'OH!

Had they consulted some same sex couples with adopted children, they could have saved themselves a lot of adult thinking, as well as that troublesome stuff about biology, philosophy and morals.

73 posted on 08/09/2012 2:16:24 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: dfwgator

Beat me to it. (Before you can say Jack Robinson).


74 posted on 08/09/2012 2:21:22 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Holding my nose one more time to get rid of Eric Holder)
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To: The_Victor
Feh. I told that bunch of fairies what they could do with that telephone pole they were tossing around.

My proctologist says I'll be fine in a year or so.

75 posted on 08/09/2012 2:23:44 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Family Guy

Many years ago I knew a woman whose beautiful litle girl died. She had another child,a boy and raised him as a girl. When he began school they sent him home with a note to have his long hair cut and not to come back wearing a dress.
Mama resented that but did send him to school dressed as a boy should be dressed but at home he was her little girl.

He died a “gay” man and mama had no one to blame but herself.


76 posted on 08/09/2012 3:20:41 PM PDT by ruesrose (It's possible to be clueless without being blonde.)
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To: Aleya2Fairlie; JoeProBono

“Men who wear kilts have pride in what is under them. They know what it means, what it’s for, where it goes and how it works. That is what gives them pride in being the real men that they are. They certainly haven’t lost their “muchness” even to this day.”

Joe do you still have that pic that made me a loss for words? You know which kilt one I mean too :)


77 posted on 08/09/2012 3:26:49 PM PDT by Morgana (-----------> Eat at Chick-Fil-A <-----------)
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To: roylene

There is a guy in my town that where a kilt quite often. He is likely of Scottish decent and proud of it. To me it’s a bit odd but then again those of us with Dutch decent are more drawn to wooden shoes. Never had a pair myself but there was an old farmer down the road that wore them all the time.


78 posted on 08/09/2012 3:57:45 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Dutch Boy
Wooden shoes? Don't they hurt your feet?

These are traditional clothing, we have a neighbor who wears lederhosen (sp) when he walks - yuk!

I would have never thought a kilt as a skirt. I have seen some Scots in kilts who are very manly.

79 posted on 08/09/2012 4:53:24 PM PDT by roylene (Salvation the great Gift of Grace.)
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To: Morgana

80 posted on 08/09/2012 4:57:45 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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