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Disco-Ball Dresses and Spandex. A dispatch from transgender camp for kids.
Slate ^ | Aug. 2, 2010 | Bedford Hope

Posted on 08/12/2010 5:29:48 PM PDT by Salman

he face of a young man in a baseball cap fills the screen at the center of a circle of 30 or so children. "It's Johnny!" they yell, meaning Johnny Weir, the "flamboyant," figure-skating Olympian.* The kids are part of an annual gathering of gender-variant and transgender kids—kids born boys who look and act like girls. Outside of this camp weekend, it's rare for them to hear "how great I think you all are … being true to yourselves," as Weir tells them. He says he loves the electric-blue spandex suit with the lime-green lightning bolt designed by one boy. He tells a 6-year-old that, no, he doesn't have a girlfriend, but one day he would like to have a family of his own. And, yes, "Bad Romance" was his favorite song to skate to. "I've fallen," he tells them, referring to the ice, not sin. "I've screwed up. The thing is just sparkle so much that nobody notices. Yeah, that's it. Sparkle! We've got to sparkle!"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2demented4words; celebrateperversity; childabuse; deviants; homo; homosexualagenda; mentallyill; sick
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Making sure they cannot grow up normal.
1 posted on 08/12/2010 5:29:52 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

The end of civilization as we know it.


2 posted on 08/12/2010 5:31:03 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: Salman

Child abuse. Evil.


3 posted on 08/12/2010 5:31:43 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Salman

Unbelievable.

What on earth are those IDIOT parents thinking?


4 posted on 08/12/2010 5:32:00 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: Salman
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No thanks.

5 posted on 08/12/2010 5:32:34 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ( VIVA la SB 1070!)
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To: Salman

Come to think of it, this thread title needs a PROJECTILE VOMIT warning


6 posted on 08/12/2010 5:33:23 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: Salman
He tells a 6-year-old that, no, he doesn't have a girlfriend, but one day he would like to have a family of his own.

Even the six year old, despite being propagandized, knows that it takes a man and a woman to make a family.

7 posted on 08/12/2010 5:35:17 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (there are huge chunks of time...at night...where I'm just asleep...for hours...it's ridiculous....)
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To: vladimir998
this thread title needs a PROJECTILE VOMIT warning

Indeed

8 posted on 08/12/2010 5:37:56 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: Salman

That is almost as sad as the nudist camps for kids where no parents are allowed to keep the 18 year old boys and 13 year old girls apart.


9 posted on 08/12/2010 5:39:48 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: circlecity
"The end of civilization as we know it."

Stuff that defeatist attitude and start fighting back! It's not the end of anything unless we give up. It's time to start speaking up, and speaking out, dammit. If we pi** people off, who cares?

We can either talk now to get our Republic back, or we can literally fight later. But if we're going to try to talk our way back to freedom, we'd better do it fast, 'cause "later" is getting sooner and sooner.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

10 posted on 08/12/2010 5:44:44 PM PDT by wku man (Steel yourselves, patriots, and be ready. Won't be long now....)
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To: Salman

These parents are guilty of child abuse and they belong in jail and the kids belong in foster homes.
Thank you klintoon, ossama, and dimocraps for dumbing down our country to the point where idiots think this crap is normal. I hope you all fry in hell!!!!!


11 posted on 08/12/2010 5:49:03 PM PDT by taillightchaser
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To: Salman

Wow, that is just wrong.


12 posted on 08/12/2010 5:51:50 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Socialism is the philosophy of failure, - W Churchill)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The fact that a 6-yr-old is even thinking about girlfriends raises red flags all over the place with me. What a screwed-up home life he must have. It’s much too early for hormones to kick in, someone is pushing this behavior onto him. Odds are he has been or soon will be abused...


13 posted on 08/12/2010 5:59:03 PM PDT by ZOOKER ( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
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To: Salman
The end-times are upon us...
14 posted on 08/12/2010 6:02:46 PM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Salman
Rewarding variant behavior. I'd would have told my kids to wait til they grow up and move out. Then they can transgender all they want.

I would think it is a safe bet that most of the children will grow up hating their parents for letting them get stigmatized by something they didn't understand.

15 posted on 08/12/2010 6:04:58 PM PDT by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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I think most of these kids were just kids who liked to put on Mommy or Daddy’s shoes and their over drama craving parents decided they were “transgendered”. It’s one thing when they are 17 and saying they don’t feel the same it’s quiet another when they are 6!


16 posted on 08/12/2010 6:09:26 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Salman

From reading the comments, it seems like society has gone amok. Girls who do not like dolls or have no interest in makeup go in one section. And boys who play make believe go into another section. It almost seems that the parents have put these kids into a transgender designation without benefit of professional consultation.

My goodness, kids play pretend all the time. It means nothing until the hormones kick in. Some parents need an intervention.


17 posted on 08/12/2010 6:11:35 PM PDT by lovesdogs
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The fact that a 6-yr-old is even thinking about girlfriends raises red flags all over the place with me.

It doesn't for me. It is pretty common for kids to know about these things in a general manner. Or did you never chant:

"(boy name) and (girl name) sitting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
First comes Love
Then comes Marriage
Then comes (either name) with a baby carriage!"

. What a screwed-up home life he must have. It’s much too early for hormones to kick in, someone is pushing this behavior onto him. Odds are he has been or soon will be abused...

Now there I agree with you but not because of the boyfriend/girlfriend thing.

18 posted on 08/12/2010 6:12:13 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (there are huge chunks of time...at night...where I'm just asleep...for hours...it's ridiculous....)
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To: wku man
"Stuff that defeatist attitude and start fighting back!"

Actually, I was being more sarcastic. But I agree with your point, 100%.

19 posted on 08/12/2010 10:01:57 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: Salman

Pingout tomorrow.


20 posted on 08/12/2010 10:03:46 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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