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Parents are behind this of course.
I myself when I was 5 or 6 told my parents that when I grow up, I want to be a bear. I didn't have the rational understanding that I cannot become a bear. Why not? They do it on cartoons all the time. In short, I didn't understand a lot of fundamental things at that age. I was in an age where anything is possible to imagine.
If a boy is raised with girls and plays with girls, or if maybe he had a bad experience with bullies, he might well think it could be better to be a girl. But he doesn't have the mental concept of things yet. This is where parents and teachers should come in and gently explain the situation.
You can like girls, and bears. But you really can't become one. Now, how about some more Ovaltine?
That is weird. Since when do little boys want to return to school?
There. Fixed it.
Kids this young imagine all sorts of silly things. When I was five, I wanted to be a superhero, or a unicorn -- or a fireman. I also told my parents that I wanted to be a boy and asked that I be called "Jimmy".
Thank goodness they didn't take that flight of fancy any more seriously than the other ones, or I would be one seriously messed up kid, instead of a happy wife and mother of two!
"Kim Pearson says the family is getting support. She is the executive director of a national organization called TransYouth Family Advocates. The group has been working with the family and Douglas County Schools."
I guess there's an organization for everything.
The decay continues. I think it is time for this kid to be removed from its parents “care”.
My first thought would be just the opposite. The kid is messed up, but it sounds like the parents are enablers. The child should be removed from the household and placed somewhere that he'll have a chance at a normal upbringing.
The child might still turn out bad, but at least he'd have a chance.
Sure, and tomorrow he’ll want to wear a Superman cape. A second grader has no concept of what a transgender is. On the other hand his parents certainly do and I totally believe they are the ones pushing this. I also question if he has a mom and dad at home or another case of two mommys.
Cut is whacker off and let him go.
This boy should be taken away from his parents.
When my boys were preschoolers there was a little boy in the neighborhood about their age. He lived with his mother, sister and grandmother. His father had never been in the picture. My sons referred to him with the female pronouns. Just saying.
I tried this in junior high so I could get into the girls locker room, but they saw right thru it.........
...here’s the real problem: .....it’s NOT about this little future drag queen....it’s about people like my daughter and son in law who have two small kids and can’t afford private schools....neither can they afford for her to stay home and home school...there are millions of parents like this who are getting crushed by liberal school board’s policies.
I am very suspicious of a biological link here. For years, researchers have known that in mammals, about halfway through fetal gestation, male fetuses secrete a bit of testosterone which tells their brain that it is a male brain. If the brain does not receive that hormone, by default, it is a female brain.
Importantly, in human beings, this does *not* exclusively determine their sexuality, though in animals, it does.
However, it does help to establish personality masculinity and femininity, or in some cases, androgyny.
Researchers long ago decided to interfere with this process, to see what would happen. In *animals*, it dominated their gender behavior. The researchers both gave testosterone to female fetus brains, the resulting adult animal exhibiting male sexual behavior; and prevented it from reaching the brain of male fetuses, the resulting adult animal exhibiting female sexual behavior.
They even went so far as to permit testosterone to *half* the brain of animal fetuses, who then exhibited *both* male and female sexual behavior. Since it was an animal, it would try to mate with both females and males, thus it was bisexual.
So what is the bottom line? Again, unlike animals, this cannot make humans heterosexual or homosexual or bisexual, but it does, most definitely, influence their personality type and gender affiliation.
That is, interference with this process can result in more feminine males, who are still heterosexual; more masculine females, who are still heterosexual; or, based on other factors, may increase the likelihood of homosexual or bisexual behavior, at least as far as their feminine or masculine behavior as homosexuals. (”Pink” and “Blue” homosexuals.)
However, this matters to society, because there are agricultural and industrial chemicals that can have a blocking effect on fetal testosterone. For example, plant estrogens (plant hormone) are sprayed on plants to increase plant growth and to promote larger fruit. And plant estrogens are very chemically similar to mammal estrogens.
It has been known for a while that two foods that are naturally highest in plant estrogens are yams and tofu, and that females can increase their likelihood of pregnancy by consuming these two foods.
However, once pregnant, these two foods should not be consumed if the fetus is male, as that much estrogen could interfere with his masculine personality development, again, about halfway through the pregnancy. But other fruits and vegetables sold in stores also have higher than normal artificial plant estrogens, sprayed on by farmers to increase yield, and this adds to the total.
I use all of this as background to point out how factors like this might result in increasing numbers of cases like this elementary school student with confused gender identity.
Depending on the region and the artificial chemicals involved, and the diet of people in that area, it might be expected that there could even be clusters of students at a school, of feminine boys, masculine girls, or a general androgyny of both boys and girls.
This is not good. Though once again it is important to mention that, since human sexuality is far more complex than that of animals, it is unlikely that this will cause any increase in homosexuality or bisexuality, it will still result in much confusion and unhappiness.
Like an elementary student who wants gender reassignment surgery. That is just plain wrong.
This will be proven statistically, as in times past, there were very, very few people with gender reassignment issues; but today it is a much more common dysfunction. How common might be the product of additive chemicals in our diet.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just ship him off to a San Francisco public school?
The Nation is upside down.
A boy wants to become a girl.
The Republican party is becoming the Democrat party.
What next?
he student had attended this same school in years prior, but had left to go to classes in another district for about two years. The transgender student will be returning to what is the child's home school. Dave M. thinks classmates will recognize the change.
How many "years" has this child been in school and how is he only in the second grade?
When I was a kid, little boys wanted to grow up to be a cowboy, a fireman, a soldier or a cop. Now they want to grow up to be women. Weird. Must be something in the water.