Why I let my son live as a girl: Mother of boy who returned to school in a skirt bravely...

Daily Mail ^ | 17th September 2011 | Helen Weathers

[markomalley]

Ten-year-old Livvy James loves her new school uniform, particularly the smart, grey skirt with two pleats and pockets decorated with hearts.

‘Walking to school on my first day back, I was nervous and excited, but most of all I just felt like shouting ‘‘Yeay!’’ ’ says Livvy, who wore her shoulder-length blonde hair that day in a swishy pony-tail.

‘I was so excited that I didn’t care what people thought about me. Even if people looked at me or were saying nasty things, I didn’t care. I felt happy because I could be me and didn’t have to pretend any more.’

[markomalley]

Full title: Why I let my son live as a girl: Mother of boy who returned to school in a skirt bravely tells her extraordinary story

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This "mother" has done almost surely irreparable damage to her son.

[Tanniker Smith]

I was just reading this on digg. Had to comment. I'll be branded one of the "insensitive bigots" for sure.

The child needs help and the parent is enabling the condition rather than treating it.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Boy in a skirt—I’m thinking of Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart” here.

[coloradan]

Livvy might be a chimera, in which case the mother is exonerated.

[Tanniker Smith]

By the way, if anyone is on digg.com, here's the link to the comment thread:

http://digg.com/news/offbeat/why_i_let_my_son_live_as_a_girl_mother_of_boy_who_returned_to_school_in_a_skirt_bravely_tells_her_extraordinary_story.

There are only a few sane people on the thread at the moment, and, sadly, the most outspoken one also has the foulest mouth, and isn't really forwarded the argument in a way I can give a Thumbs Up to.

[humblegunner]

I thought this would be a Justin Bieber thread.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

I knew he’d have to get tough or die...

[Jack Hydrazine]

Why not just send the lesbian, homosexual, transvestite, and bi-sexual students to a school where they can all be one in their deviancy?

[Anima Mundi]

Bravery isn’t what it used to be.

[Cowboy Bob]

I didn't bother to read the story...

But I'm wondering - is there a father?

[Tax-chick]

Yes, and apparently he’s been married to the mother since before their children were born. Astonishing, isn’t it?

[HomeAtLast]

If I click on the link, is there any hope at all of seeing the phrase “the boy’s father?”

[djf]

You kiddin?

Pretty soon the queers would be punching the living crap out of the cross-dressers!

[Past Your Eyes]

Parthenogenesis?

[G Larry]

Parents need to learn to parent again.
This requires they play the roll of the adult and not indulge every crazy notion that enters the kids head.

[Red Badger]

It’s being tried...............

[the invisib1e hand]

Bravery isn’t what it used to be.

not exactly a recipe for "the Greatest Generation," is it?

[markomalley]

Yes, there is a “father” listed in the story. And, btw, the parents are looking at hormone therapy in a couple of years...but they haven’t even gone so far as to consider surgery...yet (/barf)

[Jack Hydrazine]

The father is never mentioned in the story nor are there any photos.

[mrs. a]

I read the article...the father says they are “just a normal family”...why do all these families with weirdness running amok keep referring to themselves as “normal”? I’d respect them more if they said, “Our family is different and this is how we are dealing with it.” But to insist that they are “normal” shows a lack of knowledge of both statistics and natural law.