Posted on 11/28/2018 4:36:47 PM PST by Petrosius
DALLAS, Texas, November 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) A six-year-old Texas boy is being dressed and presented as a girl by his mother; at the same time, she is threatening the boys father legally for not going along with her plan for their son to live as a girl.
James lives as a girl when with his mother, but when with his father and given the choice, the six-year-old boy lives as a boy.
Jeffrey Younger is currently prohibited by court order from affirming in any way his sons sex, including imparting Christian teaching on gender and sexuality to James.
In addition to the medical and psychological risks to children associated with so-called gender transitioning, the case has implications for parental rights related to religious freedom, freedom of speech, and due process.
Anne Georgulas has charged Younger, her ex-husband and Jamess father, with child abuse for not affirming their son as a transgender girl, according to court documents.
She has also sought restraining orders against Younger, she is trying to terminate his parental rights, and also seeks to compel Younger to pay for Jamess visits with a transgender-affirming therapist and for medical procedures to transition James to a girl.
The controversial treatment could include hormonal sterilization that could begin in as soon as two years when James turns eight, in preparation for James to later have sexual reassignment surgery.
James mother has changed her sons name to Luna. She dresses him in a girls clothing, shoes, and makeup, and James uses the girls restroom at school.
The court has awarded her the sole right to consent to psychiatric and psychological treatment of James and his twin brother Jude, rendering the boys father unable to get a second opinion. Younger is even prohibited from cutting his sons hair, having been reported by a teacher to Texas Child Protective Services for giving James a haircut.
Since the cost for psychological and psychiatric treatment of children is considered child support in Texas, a website on the case created by friends of the family says, and current Texas statutes being what they are, Younger could be forced to pay for the sexual mutilation of his own son.
When Jamess mother Georgulas, who is a pediatrician, took James for counseling, she picked a gender transition therapist who diagnosed him with gender dysphoria. But Walt Heyer, a former transgender and advocate for those experiencing sex change regret, notes in an article for The Federalist that James does not fit the criteria for the condition.
Heyers piece has brought more attention to the case.
To be diagnosed with childhood gender dysphoria, a mental conflict between a persons biological sex and their perceived gender, a child must be persistent, consistent, and insistent about being the opposite sex.
While Jamess mother is all in on socially transitioning the boy, Heyer writes, providing only female clothes and enrolling him in school with a girls name, James exhibits no signs of gender dysphoria when with his father or others, choosing to dress and live as a boy.
The fact that James changes gender identity depending on which parent is present makes the diagnosis of gender dysphoria both dubious and harmful, Heyer said.
Furthermore, he writes, the transition therapist has observed as well that James is not consistent, insistent, or persistent in the desire to become Luna.
The glaring disparity between a childs preferred identity when in the presence of one parent versus the other should cause a therapist to reassess, perhaps nullify the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and terminate any steps toward transition, said Heyer. But in the case of James, this hasnt happened.
Dr. Michelle Cretella, Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians, concurred that James does not fit the profile for gender dysphoria.
James clearly does not have gender dysphoria, Cretella told LifeSiteNews.
According to the pro-transgender pediatricians themselves, a child is allegedly trans if he consistently and persistently insists he is a girl, she said. Well, when James is away from his mother, he consistently and persistently insists that he is a boy.
Heyer learned of Jamess case recently while in the area for a speaking engagement. In his article he chronicled specifics of this disparity in how James acts, with accounts from Younger, family friends, and a pastor who knows the family.
What James is consistent about when hes not with his mother is that he rejects the idea that he is Luna girl.
James exhibits no desire to be Luna the girl except when he is with his mother, Heyer said. The boys behavior offers a stinging rebuke of the diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
This by all accounts is not a true or clinically correct diagnosis of gender dysphoria, he continued. Yet the therapist stands by her diagnosis and continues to keep Luna on track to gender transition.
James['s] precious young life hinges purely on the diagnosis of gender dysphoria by a therapist who wraps herself in rainbow colors, affirms the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and dismisses evidence to the contrary, Heyer said. Remove the rainbow from James[s] diagnosis, and it crumbles under the weight of the criteria for the diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
What is happening to poor James is a testament to how politicized and anti-science pediatrics has become regarding gender identity formation in children, said Cretella, a pediatrician and expert who has written and spoken extensively about the issue.
Cretella offered a possible explanation for why mothers may push their sons to try to live as girls.
Some mothers who force their sons to impersonate girls suffer from gender mourning, she said.
Drs. Kenneth Zucker and Susan Bradley, world renowned experts in the treatment of childhood gender identity disorders, described encountering some mothers who so desperately wanted a girl, that they entered a profound state of depression after bearing only sons, explained Cretella. The mothers depression was gradually alleviated only by one son acting in an effeminate manner or allowing her to dress him as a girl.
The family friends behind the Save James website have kept a blog on the case, providing a timeline, court documents, prayers, research, and other resources on gender ideology. Jamess mother is doing all she can to keep Younger from their boys, they say, and where she has a lot of support and financial backing, Younger is on his own with limited resources.
Heyer warned that an authentic diagnosis is vital for the sake of the child.
The diagnosis is critical, he said, because labeling a child with gender dysphoria can trigger a series of physical and mental consequences for the child and has legal ramifications in the ongoing custody case. Get it wrong and young Jamess life is irrevocably harmed.
Its up to the adults to observe the child carefully, said Heyer, consider and question the grey areas, and ultimately guard innocent children against hasty diagnoses and conclusions about something so fundamental as their gender identity.
There is only one Luna in this story, and it's not the kid.
[Do those turned over to a reprobate mind even notice in the moment it is happening to them?]
No. I doubt there is hope for the overwhelming majority of them.
Their minds are blinded by the god of this world (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4).
I’ve talked to some Liberals face-to-face. In a very few cases, showed them chapter and verse (or told them chapter and verse).
Makes many of them angry.
I don’t do that any more except by accident.
“”When Jamess mother Georgulas, who is a pediatrician””
I hope to heaven if this woman has an active practice, that she loses all patients and has to close up shop and declare bankruptcy. This is insane. Are we ever going to hear the end of these stupid stories? I understand this boy is a twin - what does his twin think of this, I wonder? Well, I really don’t because I try to forget these things as soon as I move on to another thread.
Costa Rica
New Zealand
Thailand
Maybe even Russia. I’m sure Putin would be on the father’s side.
As The Who sang in the song Im a Boy:
One girl was called Jean Marie
Another little girl was called Felicity
Another little girl was Sally Joy
The other was me, and I’m a boy
My name is Bill, and I’m a head case
They practice making up on my face.
The mom is using the boy as a weapon against the father knowing that by claiming trans for her kid, since that’s the special diagnosis du jour, the father is totally powerless to interfere and she can get him written out of the picture permanently.
That piece of work is disgusting above all else to ruin a child’s life like that by using him as a pawn.
She’s the one who needs to be locked up for treatment. This evilness is spreading quickly across the nation. Dad needs to get both boys out of her reach and disappear. Wish someone with money and power would step in.
If Soros had an ounce of decency, he could be doing all sorts of good with his wealth but chooses to do evil.
https://health.usnews.com/doctors/anne-georgulas-564934 She’s in Coppell, TX which is near Dallas. - “SPECIALTY
Pediatrics
Pediatricians treat children, infants, and adolescents. They are trained to meet the unique needs of children, through all of their developmental stages, as they grow and mature.”
She has the means to start the boy on hormones today if she wants.
https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/fifth-court-of-appeals/2018/05-16-01412-cv.html The divorce filing. He said, she said. He may or may not have exaggerated his lifestyle when they were dating but she seems to be lying in her statements so both guilty, imo. Sounds like she was looking for a sugar daddy and he didn’t have enough $ugar.
Can’t the father get a second opinion from a different therapist? The idea that at age 8 the poor kid is going to be given castrating hormones and rushed to mutilating sugery is sickening. Kids that age cannot deside their gender, it is the nut case mother and the therapist that are pushing a normal male into a living hell and likely cancer from the hormone treatments.
Transgenderism starts at home.
Yeah but New Zealand sound nicest :)
I have to go now and bury my father again for the 2,000th time since obama became president.
This rolling over in the grave is getting tiresome, though I can hardly blame him.
He was an old school Italian (well he left there at 7) and a die hard American patriot but TOUGH and called a spade a spade!!
Transgenderism starts at home.
Grow up and chop your mommy into sushi young fella.
No:
The court has awarded her the sole right to consent to psychiatric and psychological treatment of James and his twin brother Jude, rendering the boys father unable to get a second opinion.
This sounds really sad. I cant tell if the story is contrived because the way its written, he isnt fitting the dx for gender dysphoria. He is also way too young to make any major decisions. However, for his health, his behavior, dress, and choice of toys should be HIS OWN and not the parents. At the age of 6, gender is HUGE for children as they learn to socially identify. They are messing him up royally. I hope they homeschool him.
No! He is a boy and should be treated as a boy. The only truth here is his biological sex. The idea that one can have a gender that differs from one's true sex is BS!
Doesn’t sound like they’ve been married that long. There had to be some signs that dad ignored that he was marrying a lunatic.
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