One of my kids made a slight inkling of wanting to be a girl. After some elevated decibels, along with some difficulty sitting down, that fantasy was over - for good.
It’s called PARENTING.
See my post 6
It’s called PARENTING.
The LGBT lobby calls this CONVERSION THERAPY and they’re trying to make it a crime.
Chances are rather high your kid still has those feelings. He’s just going to hide them from you now or bury them. They are likely to resurface at some point in his life. But he’s certainly not going to go back to you when they do. He’ll seek out friends or a psychologist.
Yes.
I have a few questions, and maybe some insights. I hope this will help you and yours in the long run. To my knowledge, I have zero idea if any of this has been tested, but as a former researcher, I think it has merit, at least for preliminary studies.
Here’s where I’m coming from. My oldest child, a son, was ALWAYS very small for his age. He was always at the bottom of the growth charts, or even below them. When he was a few months old, our pediatrician labeled him as “failure to thrive”, which I did not understand, She asked me to keep a log of every tablespoon of food that he ate for a month, and wanted to see us when that month was over, I brought to her a notebook of every “tablespoon” of food that he ate, and I have to tell you, the look on her face at that appointment was complete astonishment. She told me that he was obviously getting plenty to eat. She didn’t quite understand why he was so small, but since he was only at the 2 standard deviations off the growth chart, and not beyond, she didn’t question my mothering any further.
Soon after we relocated to another state due to employment opportunities, The next pediatrician wasn’t too terribly concerned. However, when our son was in the 8th grade, and only 4’9”, he recommended that we see a pediatric endocrinologist. So we did, and this doctor put our son in the hospital overnight so that he could have his blood drawn at hourly intervals. It was tested, and what turned up was that our son, who was at this point 2-1/2 standard deviations smaller and shorter than the growth charts, had a normal amount of growth hormone in his system, but that his body wasn’t absorbing it!!
To make a much longer story a bit shorter, this lovely doctor decided that the pros outweighed the cons, and decided that our son should have daily injections of Human Growth Hormone (and testosterone) at more elevated levels. I’m happy to say that it worked! Our son finally started growing and developing more like his peers! In the end, when his growth plates indicated that he wouldn’t benefit from further treatment, it was stopped, Our son grew 12 inches in 4 years, I wish I could remember the weight change too.
The bottom line of why I tell this true story is that it has always made me wonder if some of these *transgender* kids aren’t absorbing the hormones that their bodies might be producing. Perhaps they need more of the hormones that match their biological makeup, instead of switching over to the other sex.
After my experience with my son, I will always wonder if these children might benefit from a similar approach to this hormonal disorder. Have the scientists even looked at this? It would be interesting to see historical research literature in this regard.