Posted on 11/04/2013 3:57:42 PM PST by Morgana
ESSEX, March 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Jill Recknell is mourning the loss of her grandson, despite the fact that he is alive and well. It’s just that, according to five-year-old Zach Avery and his parents, he’s not her grandson anymore. He’s her granddaughter.
Zach’s family, who live in England, says that he was a normal boy up until last year, when he became obsessed with the cartoon character Dora the Explorer and started dressing in girl’s clothing. Zach before becoming a "girl."
“He just turned round to me one day and said, ‘Mummy, I’m a girl,’” Theresa Avery, Zach’s mother, told the Daily Mail, when the family went public last month with Zach’s story. “I assumed he was just going through a phase and left it at that. But then it got serious and he would become upset if anyone referred to him as a boy.”
After a psychologist diagnosed him with “Gender Identity Disorder,” the family has asked everyone to treat him as a girl.
Theresa and her husband Darren say Zach’s school has been “really supportive.” They have told his fellow classmates that their son has the body of a boy, but the brain of a girl. The school created gender-neutral lavatories for him, and the family hopes he will be able to use the staff toilets when he gets older.
But Recknell, Zach’s maternal grandmother, says she cannot get on board.
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“I’d rather see him kicking a football than parading in a pink dress,” she told People. “He was born a boy. It says so on his birth certificate.”
The situation, she says, has made many of the normally joyous aspects of being a grandparent painful for her.
“Grandmothers love seeing photos of their grandchildren growing up but I could never bear to look at a picture of Zach pushing a pram or cuddling a Barbie,” Recknell told the news service.
Gift-giving occasions are particularly difficult, she confided: “I could never bring myself to send a doll or girl’s clothing – it would seem so wrong.”
“The whole situation is heartbreaking for me to be honest and has left me in tears,” added the grandmother of seven.
Recknell is not the only family member with reservations. Her son, Jay, says that his nephew’s transformation has divided the family and raised concerns about Zach’s parent’s decision to go public.
According to the Daily Mail, the Averys are now negotiating with a tabloid newspaper to sell Zach’s story to them.
Zach’s story comes amidst reports that the number of young children being labeled “transgendered” is on the rise, with clinics even catering to such children and providing “treatment” that can involve being administered puberty-blocking drugs to stop the onset of puberty, and subsequent “hormone therapy” to help the child look like the opposite sex.
In one famous case reported on last year, a seven-year-old boy who now says he is a girl was allowed to join the Girl Scouts.
Exactly. Five year olds say and do all sorts of bizarre things, but nobody every believed that they should be taken seriously.
This kid is going to be such a mess.
Child abuse, plain and simple. My advice to the grandmother, as heartbreaking as it may be, is to just cease contact with them all. Not worth the heartache, and there’s nothing you can do. Not with the fascist government of Britain, which for decades harbored child-molesters at their state-run media agency.
I’ll tell you this, I have many pro-homo agenda family members, and if ANY of them did this to their child, I would disown them. Just sickening.
Yeah, this guy wanted to be a tiger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking_Cat
He killed himself and died a human.
I shaved with one of the wife’s pink disposable razors the other day. It worked fine. Guess I’m a woman now. Book me on all the talk shows! Give me a check!
We’re the intolerant parents. My daughter, 5, likes to put on Halloween cat ears and parade around the house meowing. We tell her it’s fine to pretend when you’re playing, but not when we’re not playing. She’s growing out of the phase.
I used to act like a dinosaur, and an airplane, but I got the short end of the stick when I grew up to be a white male Christian, just like I was born.
Your legs or did you give yourself a Brazilian ?
When my cousin was 2 or 3 years old she insisted she was a dog. She crawled around on all fours, barked and wanted to be fed under the table. If her parents had fed into her delusion, what then,a species transplant? I think not. They let her play, explained how imagination is fun at the appropriate times, but there were times when it was appropriate for her to be the little human girl she was born and not a puppy dog.
I would say another 10-15 years from now all these “tranie” children will sue their parents for fostering their childhood imaginings into a delusions that have the potential to destroy the lives of these children. My observation says the parents are attention seekers which is of course a normal trait when you are a child not when you’re suppose to be a child’s parent. When did parents start letting the child rule the roost?
I would say it’s child abuse.
I would say it’s child abuse.
My guess is it is spineless parents who have been indoctrinated into believing that a 5 year old can make decisions for themselves ... or mommie wanted a little girl and has been nurturing this.
I was helping out with a fundraiser for a friends school over the summer. I ran into one of my wifes friends who is recently divorced and had her 5 year old kid with her. Later when my wife got there, I told her, her friend had stopped by with her daughter. My wife rolls her eyes and says that is her son and apparently the divorce so screwed her up that she started dressing her son as a little girl.
When my nephew was little, he put on my headband and told his father he was a girl. The 2nd time he said it, my brother told him, “Girls don’t play with trains.” He has been secure in his male identity ever since.
One of my daughters decided she was a cow. Not only that, but a purple one. She used to get under the table and moo.
Needless to say, she’s not out grazing in a pasture today. She’s a successful, well-employed female human being who could never be mistaken for a cow, no matter what she thought when she was four.
One might even refer to her as a “typical, bigoted old white woman” ...
Can I ask a stupdi question?
The shrinks have diagnosed this child with gender identity disorder.
My stupid question is: doesn’t the mental health community treat people with mental/emotional disorders? Why is it that they enable this particular disorder, rather than treating same? Is it because of fears of the LGBT community? Is this disorder thouhgt not to be a real disorder?
A purple one?! How cute! What did the doctor say?? /s
He made himself over into a CLOWN, and an ugly one at that.
The fact that he killed himself tells me that he knew how screwed up he was. Shame.
Remember the DUmmie Underground Panther??
bitterness is a terribly dark and evil thing that can breed very strange behavior.
that strangely Nurturing mother should be “looked after”.
Is it because of fears of the LGBT community?
BINGO!!!
No, I don't. Refresh my memory, o great memorybank.
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