Posted on 04/30/2014 8:35:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“It just comes down to love. I mean, if you love your child then you should do anything in the world for your child. And it’s as simple and as pure as that.”
This is not parental love. This is misguided, tragic indulgence. It’s as simple and pure as that. Parental love prepares a child for adulthood–momentary happiness has little to do with it.
Parental love sees beyond what a child currently wants, or thinks he wants, and gives him what he needs. What this child needs is unconditional love and a chance for his brain to mature and his body to fully develop.
It’s far beyond the comprehension of a child to see himself as an adult. To a child of nine, eighteen is a lifetime away. Neither Keat nor his parents can fathom what his life will be like as an adult. The physical and mental consequences of a chemically altered body through puberty cannot be fully understood and weighed.
What if Keat had Body Integrity Identity Disorder? The same feelings of being born wrong exist. A person with this disorder believes he or she would be happier without the appendages they were born with. Would these parents still be good parents by indulging this disorder with amputation before puberty?
I MIGHT suggest that people respectfully but forthrightly share their “misgivings” about this psychotic decision with the LeVans
I seem to recall some doctor named Mengele who performed similar kinds of experiments on children.
I kid you not, I wanted to be a shark when I was little. I seriously thought I could be a shark one day. Kids fantasize and dream strange things. that’s why they have parents. This is nothing other than child abuse!
The "medical caregivers" should lose their licenses.
Freakin' leftists:
David Peter Reimer (August 22, 1965 May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man who was born biologically male. However, he was sexually reassigned and raised as female after his penis was accidentally destroyed during circumcision. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer failed to identify as female since the age of 9 to 11, making the transition to living as a male at age 15. Reimer later went public with his story to discourage similar medical practices. He later committed suicide, owing to suffering years of severe depression, financial instability, and a troubled marriage.
If this is legal then a kid under 10 should also be able to get tattoos, piercings, or breast implants.
“It’s how I want to look”
Not all the time, but very often, children will say what they think we want to hear. They should wait till this child is older. All of us have to learn a certain degree of self-acceptance, otherwise, one never learns the feeling of contentment, however fleeting that may be. You end up like Michael Jackson or some Movie star who cannot stop surgeries to alter their appearance. I read about some woman whose ‘goal’ is to have the largest breasts in the world, just for the fame and lucrative reputation. Never mind the health risks, never mind that she neglects and embarrasses her teenage children. Her focus is soley on herself.
this is pure evil child abuse
This is so wrong. Let the child wait until 18 and then they can decide for themselves.
Are we to give in to every whim of our children no matter how passionate it is?
If I did this I’d be running a baby elephant orphanage in Africa right now.
really?
I think these parents are probably drug and pro-pedophilia like good libertarians
Perversion.
libertopian paradise
When I was 5 I wanted to Be The Lone Ranger.
When I was 7 I wanted to Be Sky King.
When I was 8 I wanted to be Lloyd Bridges in “Sea Hunt”
When I was 9 I wanted to be Sgt Preston of the Yukon.
When I was 10 I wanted to be Zorro.
When I was 11 I wanted to be John Lennon.
When I was 12, I wanted to be Bob Dylan.
I ride a Harley, Shoot, Play guitar, bass, and piano, wear jeans and T-Shirts, and like to fly antique aircraft.
AT NO TIME IN MY 60 YEARS HAVE EITHER I OR MY PARENTS EVER ENTERTAINED ANY NOTION OTHER THAN THAT I AM A GIRL. LOL.
this is child abuse on a boy.
is this a boy with a mother and a female fetish sex partner?
that would explain their hatred of men.
A doctor actually agreed to do this?
‘First, do no harm’
Wait, you wanna put that thing where ?
Uh, maybe I am a boy after all.
there is an old SNL skit about a baby doctor who only has female babies born. Turns out he is crazy and mutilates all the boy babies.
it ends with a fluffy people magazine cover story.
it is from the john luvitz era.
Now there is probably better than a 95% chance that he will kill himself before he reaches adulthood.
So did you grow up to be a lawyer after all?
Where is this taking place? I’m unable to view the video but the curiosity has got me. I’m full of guesses ...
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