Born With the Wrong Body Transgender 10-Year-Old Girl and Her Family Talk to Barbara Walters
Posted on 02/08/2008 10:12:20 AM PST by redrunner
The parents of an 8-year-old boy who wants to live and be treated as a girl have been working with the Douglas County School District to allow their child to attend school as a girl.
The child attended the unnamed school two years ago, and the family and the district have been talking since last fall about the child re-enrolling, said district spokeswoman Whei Wong.
"The discussion has been how best to do it," Wong said Thursday. The goal, she said, is "to ensure the kid feels safe physically and emotionally and other kids don't feel threatened in any way."
Wong said some parents have contacted school officials asking for clarification and direction. "Some parents are really concerned and freaked out about it."
A concerned parent, who asked not to be identified, told 9News, "I see this as being a very difficult situation to explain to my daughter . . . why someone would not want to be the gender they were born with."
A national nonprofit group, TransYouth Family Advocates, has provided assistance in handling the situation.
Transgender children, who are born as one sex and identify with the other, are not uncommon but are not understood by parents and society, TransYouth president Shannon Garcia said.
Parents "don't understand this is a health condition. They don't know why their children are like this, and they don't know where to find help," she said.
Society fears "what they don't understand," she said. "Gender identification and sexual orientation are two very different things."
Laura Thor, a Denver licensed clinical social worker, said parents of transgender children "are relying on the goodness and tolerance of the rest of the public to respond to this child favorably."
Schoolmates and their parents need help in becoming less uncomfortable with the child's looking different and being called by a different name, Thor said.
This is wong!
This crap scares me even more then the homo indoctrination (yes yes I know its related). I really home my wife and I will be able to home school..
This is one smart kid. Learned early it’s better to be part of a protected class. If he was really smart he would’ve said he wants to be a black girl.
Oh yeah, /sarc
This is way wong!
Not going to happen. The other kids know he's a boy already. Kids, in their wonderfully concrete thinking patterns, are not going to buy this. They're just going to think the adults are crazy and this kid, too.
I guess that’s better than thinking he is a salamander. That may be next week.
But seriously, where are the parents in this? No real parent would put up with this nonsense.
I think you have your rines clossed.
TransYouth Family Advocates,....
Who makes this stuff up?
Rines still clossed.
That’s what I was thinking. I don’t see 8 year olds thinking this up on their own.
I'm betting that "heather" has two mommies.
Oh PUKE!!!!!!
This is the problem. We need to stand up for our beliefs and morals and values and be able to say when we believe things are wrong.
What kind of parents does this child have? I am wondering if this child has a traditional heterosexual couple as parents.
I can call myself a Chinese redhead. It doesn’t make it so.
I think you have your rines clossed.
entirely prossible....
"She has a birth defect, and we call it that. I can't think of a worse birth defect, as a woman to have, than to have a penis," Riley's mother, Stephanie, told Barbara Walters. "She talks about the day she'll have a baby. That's not in her future. But she sees herself as growing up to be a woman."
That's far worse than "Oh PUKE!!!!!!" Stephanie should be flogged.
It's simple, it's the domino effect, if one person is miserable then EVERYONE has to be miserable, I live in MA, we've had gay marriage forced down our throats and we also have some cities that are safe havens for ILLEGALS,,,,,,driving through some of these cities is like driving through a foreign country, but, I digress,,,,in schools if one child has an allergy to peanuts or perfume or whatever then the whole school suffers. In this case one child is mentally ill, the parents are enablers, therefore, EVERYONE suffers.
This kid’s parents need to shove him out the front door to play butcher ball with the neighborhood kids, get his butt kicked and then get up and give it back to them. He needs to get his testosterone and other androgens cranking.
I thought the same thing. Then I got to thinking what kind of parent would even think to contact a group called "TransYouth Family Advocates?" Gut feelings tell me that 'junior' might have two mommies.
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