I don’t think this is a case of a true hermaphrodite; it sounds more like a case of political activism.
Situations like that are not all that common and need to be dealt with privately, within the family. I see no need to go around announcing it to the whole world, making a political agenda out of it, and forcing changes in laws etc. That’s what’s bothering most people about this.
Too many people today have this martyr complex and are trying to rearrange the whole world to suit them, instead of accepting what can’t be changed and living with it.
If someone comes up to me and looks and acts female, that’s how I treat them. If they are a hermaphrodite, that’s a sad situation and I feel sorry for them. I don’t want, nor need, to know what they’ve had to go through, and their whole medical and sexual history.
If that's true ... if this is a boy being turned into a girl for political reasons, that is a ghastly thing, and all of the adults involved should be dealt with as criminals.
But I think it is wrong to pretend that we know what the real deal is, based solely on this article. We shouldn't automatically assume anything about the boy's condition simply because of who has taken up his cause.
My suspicion is that there's something real going on here. Whatever the motives and goals of the TYFA group, I seriously doubt that the parents are trying to score political points at their own kid's expense. They may be misled ... or they may have tried everything, and this seems like the most appropriate solution.
What I do not want to do, is simply dismiss for political reasons the possibility of there being something really different about this one kid.