Posted on 05/22/2012 4:32:42 PM PDT by neverdem
Don’t worry... It’s just due to earthbound spirits of the opposite gender attaching!
This isn’t child abuse, no.
Reading your child the story in Genesis about God creating us male and female...now THAT’S child abuse.
/sarc
If a two year old insisted she were a dinosaur, would her parents accept it and agree to raise her as a dinosaur? Of course not, and this is the same principal, ie claiming to be something you are not and never can be.
Mt daughter started insisting she was a dog at age 2. I guess I should have put her in a cage until she was potty trained.
Let the lunatics run the asylum. The kid if 5 for crying out loud! She doesn’t have a clue about ANYTHING! Unless the “parents” have brainwashed her in their effort to cash in on their “15 minutes”.
Child molestation under the veneer (or is it tyranny) of “therapy”.
“If a two year old insisted she were a dinosaur...”
What if she claimed to be Cherokee indian?
Kids pretend they are lots of things, and it means nothing (except that they have an active imagination). For the parents to then pretend that she really is a boy is extremely irresponsible. I remember going through a stage where I had an imaginary friend; another where I pretended to be a chicken; and I always was a tomboy. I don’t recall that my parents ever took my imaginations seriously.
Parents who act upon their child’s imagining that they are of the other gender should be subjected to the same laws as anyone else who abuses a child. Because it *is* emotional abuse.
It is psychobabble. It is irrational and trying to force unnatural, artificial social constructs—made up by evil people who want to molest children—emotionally as well as physically—to confuse children and destroy their health with toxins.
Children need to learn the Truth-—not some mentally ill person’s idea of “reality”. These “adults” are abusing children and should never be allowed near any children. They are forcing mental illness on children which will not only destroy their mental health and logic and reason-—but destroy their physical development making them addicts of drugs and warped idea of human beings.
NO!
Idiot parents!
A chromosome check will tell you all you need to know and dispel their stupid kooky "theories."
At 2 my brother thought he was a choo choo train.
The people raising the child in this article are fruitcakes.
These type of events are very common and well documented by Dr. Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
My one son did the same thing. Pointed out who his father in church one day (the guy was a total stranger to all of us except my 2 yr old); told me about his dog and how he was killed in a motorcycle accident prior to being born.
Thanks for the link.
I’ll assume the parents love the child and are seriously trying to help. I’ll also assume the doctors really believe in GID and are trying to “fix” the child. Nevertheless, this GID business seems foolish to me. As other FReepers posted, children go through phases where they believe all sorts of things.
As parents, I think we played along when our children imagined themselves as something else. I’m sure we also experienced times where our children were extremely stubborn. I don’t see the harm of letting a child believe they’re something else so long as it’s play time. On the other hand, letting the child stubbornly behave as they insist or administering drugs to them to stop the natural order of things strikes me as child abuse.
If this child insisted she was a bird, would the parents let her jump off roofs? If she insisted she was a cat, would they implant an artificial tail or do plastic surgery to give her pointed ears? Yeah. Seems insane.
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