Posted on 04/10/2017 7:58:25 AM PDT by Pollard
NEW HAVEN — Hannah is a 14-year-old girl, clad in leggings and an oversize T-shirt, with long brown hair that she curls around a finger. She was also born a boy.
The government can’t seem to decide whether it should affirm children like Hannah. President Trump jumped from supporting workplace protections for transgender people to ending supportive policies for transgender students in public schools. The Supreme Court waffled on whether or not these kids can use the bathrooms of their identified genders, sending the question back to the Fourth Circuit. Last month, North Carolina repealed a law that forced transgender people to use the bathroom corresponding with the gender on their birth certificates, while strangely prohibiting schools from adopting policies that would let transgender students use the bathroom of their choice.
Politicians could learn something from the doctors who treat these patients. Over the past few years, it has become clear that if we support these children in their transgender identities instead of trying to change them, they thrive instead of struggling with anxiety and depression.
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Stupid fingers ;-)
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HE was born a boy. A girl cannot be born a boy, SHE is born a girl.
I tell ya, up to now I have refused to jump on this crazy train. It gets harder and harder though, to keep the pronouns straight. How does such a young child become so troubled?
Ouch!
I read an article on the subject of brain research. And, they discovered that females and males don't sync up their brains at the same age (meaning all the connections are finally made). For a girl, it was around 24-25; for a boy, around 27-28.
So, to allow a 14 yr old boy to make such a life altering decision is insane. He cannot make this decision, because he cannot really understand the long-term effects of that decision.
Amen. Don't care; but, don't force me to board your crazy train. Or, pay for it.
And, for teenage trans people, where this child would fit into, the sucide rate is closer to 50%.
When WBill Jr was just a tad, he wanted to wear a dress to school for some costume day. Nothing weird, or transgender about it, he just thought it would be a goof, I think.
Still, being the Dad, I said, "No". And that was that. He was mildly annoyed for about 5 min, then we all moved on with our lives. No therapy needed for anyone involved.
Frankly, I think that these cases are what end-stage Munchausens by Proxy look like, only in a socially acceptable form. At best, they're caused by parents who just don't love their kids enough to tell them, "no.".
Had that happened to me when I was a young adult I know there'd have been at least a beatdown involved, and a report to the cops to get the queer arrested. Back then they'd have ignored the deserved beating and locked him up.
The entire article shows the primitive, nearly infantile thinking of the left.
While it was wrong in prior times to force children to “act according to their gender” and have acceptable and unacceptable gender behaviors, it is equally wrong to think they need to force children to be the opposite gender.
Gender starts with biology. It’s SCIENTIFIC.
Then, clearly, we have a near epidemic of children being born with their brain’s gender not matching up with their body’s, and it seems this dysfunction has as many varied symptoms as another epidemic such as Alzheimer’s or autism. The kids feel like they are the opposite gender, to varying degrees.
The correct thing to do while we find out what might be causing this epidemic and many other neonate brain dysfunctions these days, is to allow these precious children to be themselves, like we do with all other special needs kids. Help them feel good about the way they are.
Let them choose their own playthings, even dress within reason, but help them understand. “You’re a boy. Boys can like anything they want, do any hobbies they wish.” But they are boys and will be men. A man might feel masculine or feminine or to varying degrees of each. We know they can’t help it so we should accept them with their brain dysfunction.
But we also should NOT fall for the current (lack of) wisdom that these are the opposite sex trapped in the wrong body. RIDICULOUS.
Stop deforming these people who already have enough problems. We need to accept them as they express themselves any way they can if they don’t harm others.
We need to NOT interfere, not use hormone blockers. These remove all well being. Hormones are ESSENTIAL to happiness. Either gender.
We need feminine boys to learn to accept that after puberty they will have a man’s body. They can be anything they want, but they have the body they have. Women too. Stop deforming people to fit into a binary system. It is medical malpractice to surgically change bodies to fit brain dysfunctions.
It is as if we surgically operated on children with Down Syndrome to round their eyes and raise their ears. ITS A TRAGEDY. We need to prevent this condition, but until we stop it, we need to accept these people as beautiful even if they don’t fit normalcy in gender or behavior. Just let them be. Not cater to them, just accept and love them like we do with Down Syndrome or autism or people born without limbs.
Same here. One of my teenaged daughters once tried to assert that I don't like gays and trans-people, but it came out "grays and transformers." I decided each of those was a good enough term for people whom I might like, if I met them, but who are mentally ill regardless of how I feel about them.
I disagree. There have to be enforceable medical ethical standards, and one is that a surgeon should not intentionally maim a delusional patient, even at the patient's request.
Such a patient should be referred for psychiatric treatment, not sexual mutilation. A surgeon who sexually disables an emotionally disturbed patient is ethically akin to a paid killer.
Prize quote for the thread.
The adults in this child’s life are extremely confused. They are “the blind trying to lead the blind”.
Hannah” if born a male, is a male. He needs reaffirmation of this unchangeable truth. He may also need deliverance from the lying demonic spirits that are likely possessing him and lying to him concerning his gender. They are also giving him false feelings and controlling his actions concerning his false belief that he is female. This child needs the right kind of help. This child needs to know the truth and let truth set him free.
I agree. This physical destruction of human beings is the predictable result of trends I’ve noticed for at least a couple of decades. First, opinion-leaders in our society made the gender (social) categories more rigid and confining. Then they closely linked gender expression to sexual orientation. Finally, they’ve declared that anyone who doesn’t fit in the tiny “gender” box for his or her sex has to try to fit in the tiny “gender” box for the opposite sex, instead.
There’s so little room, now, especially in the digital environment of so many young people, for the enormous natural variety of human beings’ appearance, tastes, interests, and feelings.
I long for the days when transformers were robot/trucks or even voltage convertors...
I remember an episode of South Park where Ms. Garrison (formerly Mr. Garrison) shows up at an abortion clinic demanding to get an abortion. Way before its time. Then he wanted his penis back and tried growing one on the back of a mouse. Wow.
Hannah is a boy. Live with it!
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