Absolutely wrong; you can see a difference even in boy and girl babies (heck, you can see it in kittens). And the kids themselves certainly see a difference, which is why boys play with boys and girls with girls.
I doubt many here will agree, but as far as this 'experiment' goes, I say "try it." It may do some harm but it may also do some good and it's worth knowing what happens. I realize it's an unspeakably moderate position, but let's leave the "right's right and wrong's wrong and we know what the difference is" to the Liberals.
The poor boy is being manipulated by well meaning parents. Leaving well enough alone is the best medicine. The trauma of feeling “different” in ones own skin is common place and as old as the hills. Making a big deal out of it is the crime.
“I doubt many here will agree, but as far as this ‘experiment’ goes, I say “try it.” It may do some harm but it may also do some good and it’s worth knowing what happens. I realize it’s an unspeakably moderate position, but let’s leave the “right’s right and wrong’s wrong and we know what the difference is” to the Liberals. “
You’re missing the point. The issue here is not whether the kid and the parents want to try this, it’s whether the rest of the school is required to go along.
It’s high time that people just live their lives and not expect the rest of the world to always accept, aid, and enable their choices.
Do you really think what is probably just an effeminate boy should be encouraged to think he’s really a girl? Parents influence “gender identity” and it seems to me this poor child’s parents decided for him. There are ranges of what we would term masculinity and femininity, and the “sissy” boys and “tomboy” girls should not be encouraged to believe they were somehow born the wrong sex. And I say sex because these “gender identity” changes are certainly all about ignoring someone’s biological sex and seeking to somehow make gender whims the determiner. I’m sure this poor child’s parents, and all the “counselors” et al are telling the boy and everyone that his happiness depends on this “gender change”. The boy is in for a lifetime of misery IMHO.
There's got to be a better way than to turn the whole town, let alone the school into a Nationally observed freak show.
The parents and the principal look like lunatics.
Well, we may see what happens right away -- like the first time this gender-bent child uses his chosen student bathroom.
So what part of the curriculum should we cut out to try this ridiculous experiment: math? science? history? English?
How about psychiatric help for all involved?
McHugh, who has studied sexual reassignment surgery for 30 years, particularly in the 1970s when Hopkins was a leader in the field, said society should not support decisions of immature persons. "People came to us saying that if we changed them, we'd solve all their problems," he said. "So we changed them, and their problems remained."