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To: Jim Robinson
Jim, I am curious as to your perspective on a situation like this.

I've heard of such a thing before (actually, I think here at FR was where I first read of such a thing).

What if you have a child who simply and consistently insists from infancy that he is a girl. What if you try to gently prod him in the direction of being what he is biologically, but no matter what you do, he insists he's a girl and not a boy, and won't be cast into a male identity no matter what you say or do? What do you do then?

It seems to me that such children do exist - like children who are born with Down's Syndrome, or autistic, or without feet, or as conjoined twins.

I think they are rare, but I think some do exist. And for those it seems to me that there is no way parents will ultimately force them to live as their biological gender.

So what do you do?

More from the article:

Coy was identified as a male at birth, but since age 18 months has insisted she is a girl, and has attended school as a girl since December, 2011. Her teachers referred to her as a girl, and she dressed like one and used the girls bathroom, her mother says.

“At 18 months of age Coy gravitated to girl things and very much disliked boy things,” Mathis said. She liked tutus and makeup and dresses. Coy’s brother was all boy, who liked monsters, and trucks and roughhousing.

“We had two boys with the same clothes and toys and they were so different. Coy was growing up very much a girl. We could compare the two and knew that we weren’t causing Coy to like certain things. We decided to let her just be who she is.”

When she was two and a half, Coy was anxious if she left the house dressed as a boy. She wanted princess dresses and hair bows. “If it was jeans and a polo shirt you could just see the happiness drain from her face,” Mathis said.

At age four, she asked them to take her to a doctor “to fix her body,” Mathis said.

By then, Mathis said she was expecting that conversation. “I was sad. It’s not something an innocent four year old should think of.” They told her she could go to the doctor, but that she couldn’t alter her body until she was an adult. That satisfied her.

Mathis said her husband, who is a former Marine and disabled veteran, “took more time to accept it.”

But then they decided that not letting Coy be who she was would cause her harm.

They consulted a psychologist, doctor and other parents of transgender children and support groups.

27 posted on 02/26/2013 10:59:34 PM PST by Jeff Winston
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To: Jeff Winston
How does an 18 mo even know what a girl is? At 4 yrs old he wants a sex change operation?

Sorry folks, your son is a boy. Whoever is filling his mind with this BS is a child abuser and HE is probably being molested by a homosexual.

You cannot cure mental illness by mutilating a healthy body

43 posted on 02/27/2013 1:07:48 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Jeff Winston
What if you have a child who simply and consistently insists from infancy that he is a girl.

Put him on stage.

no matter what you do, he insists he's a girl and not a boy, and won't be cast into a male identity no matter what you say or do? What do you do then?

Try to profit from the little freak.


65 posted on 02/27/2013 6:30:28 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: Jeff Winston

Children that age do not think or talk that way unless some crazy adult is putting in their head


67 posted on 02/27/2013 6:36:56 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Jeff Winston
So a manipulative child with a selfish habit of gravitating towards girl norms in order to seek attention away from his brother should be coddled by State because the parents failed at disciplining their child? Do you have kids (Emphasize plural)?

My third child tried to pull this stunt in order to gain attention and manipulate our surroundings (Yes at a young age children can be very crafty schemers) to cater to him. Guess what, after 6-7 months of fighting off the scheme he returned to gender norms (Horrifying thought to the homosexual/transgendered crowd).

Unless this kid has demons caused by others such as sexual abuse or pressure from an outside influence (An adult or "entertainment choices") its all lack of discipline. If conditioned the parents should find the cause, confront, and heal. If the parents egg this child on, the parents should be charged with abuse.
73 posted on 02/27/2013 6:59:06 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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