[panthermom]

I don’t know if the kid will be beat up, at 3rd grade they’d just think it was weird and he/she would probably end up being more isolated.

It is ridiculous that a child that age would have any idea about being a boy or a girl. Heck, my son thought he was Batman for a year and then became a cowboy. Instead of the kids in school getting counseling it sounds like the parents and the child need it.

[Psycho_Bunny]

It's really not ridiculous. I'm almost 40 and to this day my earliest memory was thinking I was a girl. That was in kindergarten. When I hit puberty the problem came on so hard I dived into suicidal depression: I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit it but I almost died from slicing my wrists: I was in a private school and was apparently found in the shower by my roommate who'd decided to cut his afternoon classes. I don't recall anything other than waking up in the hospital to a doctor who was sewing up my arms and all in my face about it.

At the time, my father was a head psychologist with Focus On The Family (a terrific group of people, by the way) and he was able to help walk me through the problem. God rest his soul, I don't know what would have happened without his guidence.

Kids who have this problem have to be dealt with almost exactly the opposite of how this kid's being dealt with.