[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.

[Pollster1]

The mom: "'To have told him, “Pull yourself together, act like a boy,” would have been tantamount to child abuse' . . . Saffron remembers how, from an early age, Sam would scream and struggle when she tried to dress him in boys’ clothes and cried every time they cut his hair. So they began to compromise, buying boys’ sweaters in pink and designer Moschino T-shirts that appealed to Sam’s feminine side.

To help her son to make good decisions is "child abuse", but to let a toddler then preschooler then little boy make life-changing decisions that may initially have been based on nothing more than a whim is good parenting? All of my boys disliked being dressed and having their hair cut (or combed or washed) at some point and for an extended period. The difference is that I didn't allow them to have a say before they were old enough to understand their decisions. The difference is that I never compromised or negotiated in response to a child's tantrums. The difference is that my version of "child abuse" helped them to grow up, and hers is helping a confused boy to stay lost in the unimportant. I find this story disturbing, but more than that terribly sad. This will not end well, and I suspect it would have been easily avoidable if either parent had a backbone.

[RowdyFFC]

‘I want my children to be able to express themselves freely, to be who they are, not what I want them to be’...

I have to ask myself why there had to be a school assembly meeting to debut and show off the new purple skirt and boots. Was this at the behest of the school, or at the behest of the mother?

The mother is just a person who ‘goes with the flow’...I have counseled some of these ‘go with the flow people’ only to find out they’re more controlling than the parents who use a stick and make their kids march in a line.

Not having spoken to this mother, I don’t know...but I have also found some mothers who wanted a little girl so badly, and got a little boy the first and then the second time, that the nursery was decorated with glitter, pink fluff, rainbows and unicorns anyway, because the mother wanted it. Imagine yourself as a male waking up in that crib not knowing what the hell your gender is or means.

I had to laugh at my son who had me paint murals of barns and tractors, cornfields, and later NASCAR heroes on his boys walls. He said he wanted his boys to wake up with no doubt about what their role was. Of course when the Princess finally came along years later, I painted on her walls, Cinderella’s Grand Arrival At the Ball.

The most learning your child does in his life about who and what he is is in the first six months, and I suspect this ‘go with the flow’ mother had more influence than she knows.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Is he the “Flamboyant child” from Curb your enthusiasm??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVK_OqyUzk&feature=player_embedded

“A sewing machine! EEEEEE!”

[californian by choice]

No matter what clothing he wore, think or make, that child is male until the end of their days... that is what their chromosomes say.

[Jmouse007]

One word describes what this woman has done: WICKEDNESS!

[liberalh8ter]

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.’

These are not the words of a 10 year old child; these are the words of a attention whore 'mother', looking to make herself worshiped amongst liberals.

[ETL]

There's no need to fear, Obama's "Safe School Car", Kevin Jennings, is here!

Obama's "Safe School Czar" Kevin
"use a condom" Jennings
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From the Washington Times...

EDITORIAL: At the president's pleasure
'Safe school czar' encouraged child sex with an older man
September 28, 2009

A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an "older man." At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse. That former teacher, Kevin Jennings, is President Obama's "safe school czar". It's getting hard to keep track of all of this president's problematic appointments. Clearly, the process for vetting White House employees has broken down.

In this one case in which Mr. Jennings had a real chance to protect a young boy from a sexual predator, he not only failed to do what the law required but actually encouraged the relationship.

According to Mr. Jennings' own description in a new audiotape discovered by Fox News, the 15-year-old boy met the "older man" in a "bus station bathroom" and was taken to the older man's home that night. When some details about the case became public, Mr. Jennings threatened to sue another teacher who called his failure to report the statutory rape "unethical." Mr. Jennings' defenders asserted that there was no evidence that he was aware the student had sex with the older man.

However, the new audiotape contradicts this claim. In 2000, Mr. Jennings gave a talk to the Iowa chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, an advocacy group that promotes homosexuality in schools. On the tape, Mr. Jennings recollected that he told the student to make sure "to use a condom" when he was with the older man. That he actively encouraged the relationship is reinforced by Mr. Jennings' own description in his 1994 book, "One Teacher in 10." In that account, the teacher boasts how he allayed the student's concerns about the relationship to such a degree that the 15-year-old "left my office with a smile on his face that I would see every time I saw him on the campus for the next two years, until he graduated."

Mr. Jennings' denials about these events reveal a lack of remorse. He has not admitted that he made mistakes in this case, and he now refuses to answer any questions about the scandal. Don't forget, this is a presidential appointee we're talking about. Mr. Obama should make clear what his standards are for public servants serving at the pleasure of the president. Encouraging and covering up man-boy sexual activity are serious offenses. The White House should force Mr. Jennings to come clean.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/28/at-the-presidents-pleasure/
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[Blood of Tyrants]

Looks like his mother took parenting lessons from Cher. And “Chaz” turned out soooooo well.

[Jeff Chandler]

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

Why, what could possibly go wrong?

[Stormdog]

New Fall Line up on TLC:
“Toddlers & Tiaras” follwed by “Pre-Teen Drag Queens”

[bgill]

When Sam was able to choose, he would be drawn to dolls, fluffy things and stereotypical girls’ stuff.

He has an older brother, so where did he get the girlie toys? Answer - Mama.

Who bought all those frilly little outfits? Answer - Mama. Who has messed up this boy's life? Answer - Mama.

[redangus]

Okay I’m not defending the mother here, but even in the 8 y/o picture if no one told you, you would assume that was a little girl. Genetically he/she might be male, but there has to be a lot of estrogen flowing here.

[wintertime]

A boy in a skirt in a **compulsory** attendance government school?

So?...What about a citizen's FIRST AMENDMENT Right to **free** association????HuH? What about parents who do NOT want their child to be in **forced** association with a boy wearing a SKIRT???

What about the parents and citizen's FIRST AMENDMENT right to freedom of religion? By forcing the children in the district to associate with this boy, the religious value of many will be undermined and replaced with the government's atheistic religion of secular humanism. What about the citizen who is forced to pay for the government's atheistic religious proselytizing?

Just one more example of how government schools trash First Amendment and human rights.

Oh....Some twit is sure to post that parents have the freedom to homeschool or privately school. There is another name for this RANSOM! Parents still have the freedom to pay ransom ( jizya) to rescue their children from this morally toxic stew.

[Cicero]

Ten-year-old Livvy James loves her new school uniform

His.

For a news reporter to pretend that you can change your sex simply by wishing it is to enable this kind of madness.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Here’s an example of an extraordinary story,mom:
“My son,who is serving in the Middle East,bravely risked his life to save others.”