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
(Excerpt) Read more at bradenton.com ...
Give it time....they'll find it.
"Circumstantial" evidence...is that the proper word? For example...fraternal twins could perhaps explain this phenom. Both raised by same parents in same fashion...one is homosexual and one is heterosexual.
A lot of lesbians look very butch...and walk masculine, gesture masculine...it's not an act. It's ......< drumroll >
GENETIC!!!
The sex positive agenda doesn't care in the end if it is genetic or not. They are merely using the homosexual agenda as the battering ram to society's laws and morals.
Sex Positive teaching proponents want to end all moral judgements over sexual pairings regardless of age, sex, number, relation, marital status, or species of partner(s).
They realize that they must lie to get some people onboard "well, this is something they can't help, they were born that way".
Note that this is a radical shift from what we were told in Lawrence v. Texas: "This is consenting adults in private".
Well we certainly aren't talking about adults here and we aren't talking about anything happening in private, they want to send a boy with male hormones and genitalia into the girls' room.
Communists lie. Always.
And there are also femme lesbians.
You seem to have a vested interest in this "proof". The sex positive scientists didn't care for any genetic component, if it feels good do it. Act on sexual desires.
They consider abstinence unhealthy because it is a suppression of sexual desire (same as telling someone that homosexuality is morally wrong).
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where the dwarf community turned on Mickey Abbott for "heightening."
Actually I saw the documentary that you are talking about, and I was disgusted.
The premise of "gender dysphoria" runs counter to feminist thinking, which asserts that "gender" is a social construct rather than an objective reality. Social construction theory asserts that a male would adopt a female identity only if he were socialized to do so.
This is another example of the incoherence of the liberal mind. The feminist idea of the social construction of gender directly conflicts with this new development in queer theory. The only thing they have in common is their refutation of traditional values.
I don't presume to judge the parents, however. They obviously have a troubled son, and could be the victims of some very bad professional advice.
You do realize that your belief in a "gay gene" has now morphed into quasi-religion, don't you?
"Give it time....they'll find it." Is not proof!
It's speculation and wishful thinking.
"A lot of lesbians look very butch...and walk masculine, gesture masculine...it's not an act. It's ......< drumroll >
GENETIC!!!"
Once again. PROOF??!!!
BTW, I personally know two pairs of IDENTICAL twins where one is gay and the other isn't. In one case, the straight one was my college room mate, and he was one of the most normal people I've ever met.
How does one square a genetic cause for homosexuality with natural selection? I thought natural selection was the sine qua non of evolution?
If we believe the article, then this is a girl.
Naieve question: Were the parents at fault here for wanting a son?
will they teach him/her lesbian fisting?
If someone had talked you out of it, you'd still be wondering if you could fly...
Liberals are intellectually dishonest all the time.
It means that they aren't necessarily schizophrenic, they know some of this to be false but feel that the ends justify the means.
Tell the masses this is "normal" and indoctrinate their classmates into this thinking.
Unisex bathrooms come into being one washroom at a time.
...Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady on the Brady Bunch, is dead?
I almost posted Peter's picture when I saw that other post.
Far from it. He is currently the celebrity endorser for the latest workout machine being advertised on cable.
...uncanny resemblance.
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