ok, so I guess this is the parents. Where is CPS when you need them (and I despise CPS!)
I’m afraid to ask: how did the little girl get RSV? Respiratory ailments aren’t that rare in multiples but this sounds drastic (and heartbreaking - again, for the child regardless of the cause).
If I were to buy into either of the theories you enumerated, it’d be the subconscious effort to replace the ‘lost’ daughter. At least to some extent most of us could relate to that rather than seeking publicity, but who knows?
According to one story, all the kids got it, and it was easily treatable, except that she didn’t get normal treatment, she did the “alternate medicine” thing, just as she did the home birth thing.
Definitely sad.
And it used to be that society would protect children from this kind of manipulation, but now that being transgender is considered normal, there is no protection, and there is no help this boy will be able to get. If he ever tries to get himself “fixed”, he will be attacked and ostracized. In California no licensed therapist would be ALLOWED to help him decide to be a guy, just to help him cope with thinking he is a girl.