Posted on 07/19/2006 7:20:21 AM PDT by presidio9
Few will know this genetic truth, because the 5-year-old's parents and school administrators have agreed that it's in his best interest to blend in as a female.
Mental health professionals have diagnosed Pat - not his real name - with gender dysphoria, a condition in which a person believes that he or she is the opposite gender. After two years of examination, they have determined that he is not simply effeminate or going through a phase.
"Gender dysphoria can take place during a fetus' development in the womb," said noted gender specialist and sexologist Marilyn Volker, Ph.D., of Miami.
While this tyke is likely the youngest transgendered child admitted to a South Florida school, he is not unique. Both the Broward and Miami-Dade County school systems have policies in place to smooth the way for such students and their families.
Equality Florida, which advocates for Florida's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, and PFLAG - Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays - say the two school districts have the most progressive policies in the state.
Broward and Miami-Dade are among the most exemplary school districts "when it comes to the rights of transgendered people," said Tobias Packer, South Florida Field Organizer for Equality Florida, who himself is transgendered.
Student victims
Carole Benowitz, Florida state coordinator for PFLAG, agrees. Her adult son is gay.
Benowitz said that two years ago - at a Broward high school she declined to name - she was called in after a group of boys beat up another student, whom they believed to be an effeminate boy. In fact, the victim was transgendered - a biological female who looked, dressed and behaved like a male. Benowitz was brought in to counsel the administrators, the students and the victim.
"People have an understanding
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My five year old granddaughter thinks she is the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet.
You right. That was irresponsible. Comparing homosexuals to padoin jedis is about as fair as equating gay marriage with the Civil Rights movement.
I knew a kid who thought he was a tank. He would manuver into position with his arm straight out in front of him and fire at unsuspecting passerbys.
That would really cause them a delimma. Support the diversity or allow a weapon in school?
Most likely, the 'parents' are homo activists, and they're shamelessly using their child as a pawn for their 'agenda'.
Not that I would doubt that the child with gay parents might be a bit 'confused'. I'll bet that they're man-hating lesbians that just couldn't stand the fact that they had a son.
Poor child. This whole thing sickens me.
Sick
Why am I not suprised? Oh, right, . the rules are different down here in So Flo-Da. Besides it won't be little Havana or the 'saguesera', probably some 'hoity-toity burb' in North east Dade,... Aventura? Are there actually any children there? Maybe that's the problem.
LOL! Years ago there was a four year old boy on our street to whom I'd say, "Goodmorning, Tommy," to which, with deadly sincererity, he would reply, "I'm not Tommy. I'm Zorro!" Today that little boy is a talk show host.
I heard that theory too. Another problem was that they couldn't establish whether the difference was the cause of the homosexual behavior, or the effect.
He and his three older siblings - two girls and a boy - live in a middle-class Broward County neighborhood with their father, an attorney, and their mother, who has a master's degree in counseling.
Pat's parents had never heard of gender dysphoria until they took their child for treatment. He was insisting that he was a girl, and often tried to hide his penis between his legs.
After long consultation with a team of pediatric endocrinologists and therapists, then with school officials, the parents decided that it was in Pat's best interest to live as a girl.
"The school officials have agreed to continue working with the family and medical professionals to help create an environment that will maximize the child's ability to learn and grow within the school system," said family attorney Karen Doering, who specializes in defending the rights of people who are transgendered, gay, bisexual or lesbian.
"a biological female who looked, dressed and behaved like a male" We used to call 'em "Tomboys". All of "em I knew grew up to be fine wives and mothers.
I also have friends who were labeled "sissys" and "momma's boys" growing up. All are heterosexual.
If I was that kid's parents, I'd get him signed up for martial arts classes pronto, so he won't get his/her ass kicked in middle school..
When I was five... I thought I was Superman. I wish someone had talked me out of it before I jumped off my grandmother's front porch and cut my head.
This is further proof, as if I needed anymore, that I made the right call by sending my kids to private schools here in Miami. I feel sorry for this young child that is clearly being used by these radical homosexuals to advance their agenda. I can only imagine what idiots the parents must be to go along with this.
I wonder what other kids' parents (esp. girls) are gonna say about "Pat" using the girls' bathroom? And shower, once he gets to high school?
Also, most of the autopsies were on AIDS patients, so that could be a factor also.
It was John Wayne for me.
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