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More than just undies:The smallest details are the most important for parents of transgender kids
news.com.au ^ | 09/29/2015 | GINGER GORMAN

Posted on 09/29/2015 7:15:30 AM PDT by massmike

EVERY day, 11-year-old Jake* runs to the letterbox to check if the postman has been. For four weeks he’s been waiting for a parcel that seems as if it will never come.

Of course these days you can order anything online, but this isn’t like any other purchase his mum, Ellie, has ever made.

“It appears perhaps that our order has been held up in customs,” Ellie says. “That’s something else that just makes me aware of how weird and how covert this could seem to others.”

Even though Ellie desperately wants to help her son, she is the first to admit that it has been an emotional and mental challenge to “try to imagine what it may be like to need this so much.”

Jake is a transgender boy who came out nearly a year ago. The box from America that Ellie and Jake are expecting contains two types of items. One is a so-called “stand-to-pee,” a silicone device that allows someone with female genitalia to stand up while urinating.

The second type of item in the parcel will be a soft, washable “packer,” that gets sewn into underwear to create the outward appearance of male genitalia. “It’s desperately important for him in order to feel comfortable and pass [as a boy] all the time,” Ellie says.

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To: CrazyIvan

Unless you are Sean Hayes.


21 posted on 09/29/2015 8:14:05 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (BREAKING: Boy Scouts of America Changes Corporate Identity to "Scouting for Boys in America")
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To: massmike

Your child needs counseling to rectify mind with reality, not altering the environment to suit the delusion.
Especially when we’ve eliminated barriers to all careers, see women in violent sports like MMA and other things that say a masculine girl can do everything the boys do - and get legal preference while doing so.
If the girl is a tom boy, let her fix cars with Dad, wear pants, play sports and video games - but don’t assume that makes her a boy.


22 posted on 09/29/2015 8:31:20 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

One of the most anachronistic jerks I’ve ever dealt with was a transgendered man.
I’m a female engineer, tomboy growing up, married with two kids today.
It came out, then demanded total inclusion in everything “women’s” for validation.
This included but was not limited to: women’s bathroom access, women’s engineering group, demanded to be in the girls’ lunches (included some of the configuration managers and software testers, because I was the only female engineer).
And the company gave it to him.

I couldn’t prevent it from using the bathroom, so I used one on the other side of the building. I skipped women’s events it attended. And I was labeled the bigot. While IT criticized me for not wearing dresses and makeup and jewelry like women should (was tired of throwing stuff out if lubricant or grease got on silk), commenting on my hair (short, simple styles), not having feminine gestures (no one cares when you’re out on the production line), etc.

It finally challenged me what I thought of it. I said it had the right to do what it wanted with its body, but I’d get my brother counseling if he tried to tell me he was my sister. It lectured me on what made someone a woman, mostly behavioral stuff and a “feminine brain”. It then said, “What do you think makes you more of a woman than me?”

“Biology. I gave birth twice.”

It went apoplectic. Reality was irrelevant to the discussion.

HR had a nightmare when I filed sexual harrassment complaints against it. It would come to my desk while I ate lunch and tell me all about its travails, like the surgery to construct a neovagina, and long term problems not unlike having a period. My boss said it was trying to have girls’ discussions. I blew up at it, and then it started directly interfering with my work. Only when I had a two hour outage and it wouldn’t help me with 200+ user call ins did I have the proof to show, yes, it was far cattier than any woman I had ever worked with.


23 posted on 09/29/2015 8:38:32 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“P” as in pedophilia is probably next.


24 posted on 09/29/2015 8:46:42 AM PDT by goldi
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Can any of you imagine, your parents or grandparents reaction to this

An imagined dialogue betwween myself and my late father;

‘Say Dad, I’ve been thinking...and I’ve determined that I’m really a girl...so, could you guys, y’know, help me along in this thing...?

‘@&*%$#^*...now go upstairs and finish your #@%$* homework...’


25 posted on 09/29/2015 9:03:03 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade
‘Say Dad, I’ve been thinking...and I’ve determined that I’m really a girl...so, could you guys, y’know, help me along in this thing...? ‘@&*%$#^*...now go upstairs and finish your #@%$* homework...’

LOL!

"Trans what? The transmission in the Ford is just fine. Leave it alone."

26 posted on 09/29/2015 9:34:19 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
How the heck can “transgender kids” express themselves, if they didn’t have liberal enabling parents????

It seems having tranny child is quite the trendy thing these days.

27 posted on 09/29/2015 9:36:53 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Dilbert San Diego

How the heck can “transgender kids” express themselves, if they didn’t have liberal enabling parents????

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Exactly.

All children question their identities. It’s part of imagination and the wonders of being a child.

However, it’s up to the parents to tell the child:

“No Becky, you are not a unicorn.”
“No Tommy, you are not a fire truck.”
“No Michael, you are not a wolf.”

But now with the two liberal problems that have surfaced, the skewing of sexual mores and the quashing of childhood imagination, anytime a child claims he or she belongs to the opposite sex, they are taken seriously and allowed to transform it into a psychological delusion.

In other words, the parents need to be beaten in the head until they straighten up or they’re comatose.


28 posted on 09/29/2015 10:04:38 AM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: tbw2

That’s a horror story!


29 posted on 09/29/2015 10:16:26 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: CrazyIvan

LOL - IIRC that is the punchline to the old joke about a guy who used the suggestion of putting a potato in his pants to impress women on the beach


30 posted on 09/29/2015 10:24:03 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: massmike

When ISIS takes over, they’ll put a stop to this nonsense.


31 posted on 09/29/2015 10:31:59 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: massmike

Why is there a need for a prosthetic device which makes it appear that he in is male down below?

I am a male. I have male parts. But none of my pants show an outline of what I have. Do some men wear pants so tight that things do show through? Maybe I’m just out of it with his clothes are supposed to fit????


32 posted on 09/29/2015 10:37:59 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: massmike

No. These are not transgender children.

They are the victims of child abuse.

This sexual and psychological abuse of children must be called what it is. And anyone who “celebrates” this or enables it in any way are complicit in child abuse.


33 posted on 09/29/2015 10:38:02 AM PDT by Eroteme
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To: massmike

The mentally ill trannies are not the actual enemy, or in this case the insipid parent is not the enemy.

The media isn’t even our main foe, as they merely carry out the orders of their masters.

The enemies are the godless elites who use nonexistent problems like this one to further their agenda and bring about a totalitarian police state where every man is in a prison no matter where he resides.

That’s what this tranny nonsense is ultimately designed to destroy: the freedom of middle class Americans to openly give their opinions in the public sphere.

Once that is destroyed, WE are destroyed.


34 posted on 09/29/2015 12:25:17 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: tbw2

What eventually happened? Did the company press charges against that it?


35 posted on 09/29/2015 6:25:57 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

The management told it to stop the sexual harassment and cooperate with the team member, me.
The individual just became more catty. It recently retired.

I’ve faced continual problems at work, where management is far left. All of the incidents below are in the last 14 months.

A woman asks for advice on a husband now out as homosexual wanting to have affairs on the side. Others told her about “straight spouses of homosexual” support groups and congratulated her that he was comfortable coming out. I said I could get her info on a divorce attorney, if she didn’t want to plan on disease testing and strict boundaries. I was reported as homophobic by someone else in the discussion.

A man who stated his 16 year old son had already come out as homosexual said the kid now wants to be transgendered. There were multiple references to counseling resources for the parents to ACCEPT the kid’s decision and doctors to aid the transition. I sent the father the link to Dr. Paul McHugh’s article in the Wall Street Journal that surgery is not the answer. That was considered transphobic. My only defense was that he asked for advice and this was a mainstream publication’s advice on the matter. But we’ve reached the point where anything other than far left wing answers to these discussions is now a violation of company policy.

The company had a guy write a page and a half in the company news letter about how supportive the company is on him coming out. I said that I pitied his wife of ten years and that the four children he said were supportive had NO CLUE what he was doing, breaking up the family. That resulted in a reprimand and diversity training mandates.

Same sex marriage passes. On the company internal version of a social network, sixteen posts on the news articles to the event. I posted a single link, with a title that describes how the Obgerfell decision had poor legal reasoning. My posting was classified political and hate speech per company policy. The “yeah, same sex marriage” articles were not.

Why does the company create such far left “diversity policies”? Because federal contracts give preferences to companies that do, and it is cheaper to socially engineer the work force than engineer a better product.


36 posted on 09/29/2015 6:43:10 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Remember that reparation therapy for homosexuality and transgenderism are now illegal in New Jersey and Oregon, if not other states.
So if your son says he’s your daughter, it is illegal for a licensed doctor to do anything BUT endorse and support the delusion.
The only possible options for parents are moving to another state where the therapy is legal or hitting therapy with a non-licensed therapist hard to try to resolve the delusion.


37 posted on 09/29/2015 6:45:59 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: massmike

Thank the NEA!


38 posted on 09/29/2015 7:03:27 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: tbw2

Yikes! Didn’t realize companies were that far-left now.


39 posted on 09/29/2015 7:16:46 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

All of the major defense contractors are receiving perfect scores on the “out and equal index”, with things like health benefits for same sex partners, corporate policies that protect the feelings of LBGTA, supporting people who “change gender” even without surgery, have employee resource/networking groups for LBGTA like they do black engineers and Native Americans, etc.
Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, all do, and many on the the next tier down, too.
They fit the far liberal mold because they want the government contracts.


40 posted on 09/29/2015 7:22:02 PM PDT by tbw2
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