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Our 9-year-old child Ryder is transgender — but parenting isn't about labels
CBC "News" ^ | 8/3/2020 | Ann Bruinn

Posted on 08/06/2020 5:01:51 PM PDT by mkleesma

We knew from the very beginning that our child didn't fit the mould. Ryder preferred dresses and pink sparkly clothing from the moment he could crawl to the cupboard and pull out his own clothes. They belonged to his sister but he wanted to wear them and so he did. His sister wasn't impressed at first but as long as they weren't her favourite outfits, she soon adjusted.

At three, he wanted to grow his hair out. He went to preschool with dresses and pigtails. When the other kids were confused, Ryder just shrugged. He didn't feel the need to explain himself and we followed his lead.

When Ryder was four, he sat on the couch crying heavy, sobbing tears. "I want to be a girl! I want to be a girl!" he cried as he rocked back and forth covering his face with his hands. I rushed over, took him in my lap and cradled him, saying, "You can be a girl. Of course you can. Be a girl!"

There was a brief time when Ryder's dad had doubts and made him buy clothes from the boy's section. We had a major fight and I was ready to leave with the kids if he didn't come around. Those clothes sat untouched for weeks until Ryder brought the pile to Dad and said, "I don't want these."

Dad nodded knowingly. That whisper of doubt was washed away and, every day since, Dad has been nothing but loving and supportive.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abuse; badparents; child; childabuse; loons; transgender
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To: libh8er

That’s a chick? Someone wants attention.


81 posted on 08/06/2020 6:15:52 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bingo! They shaped their child. I seriously doubt the kid had tendencies that way. If it did, the parents encouraged it and forbade being a boy.


82 posted on 08/06/2020 6:21:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: mkleesma

YOU BELONG IN PRISON!!

Poor Child.


83 posted on 08/06/2020 6:24:21 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: higgmeister

“Ryder.” In another couple of years the kid’ll declare himself to be a moving van.


84 posted on 08/06/2020 6:28:36 PM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: mkleesma
Yup. Child abuse.

They are undeveloped, inmature kids.

They don't even know what they want to be since their hormones have not kicked in yet.

In my view, calling a kid under 18 transgender is child abuse, and those parents that force hormone therapies on their kids or send them to surgery should rot in hell.

85 posted on 08/06/2020 6:29:56 PM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: mkleesma

This is so WRONG on so many levels, pure evil.


86 posted on 08/06/2020 6:33:17 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Blood of Tyrants

That’s what I think, too.


87 posted on 08/06/2020 6:35:45 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: mkleesma

Another foolish woman who can’t tell their child no


88 posted on 08/06/2020 6:35:49 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

Look at her in #4, she obviously pushed this. Even if it wasn’t overtly done, clearly this kid was forced into acting like a girl.


89 posted on 08/06/2020 6:36:56 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: mkleesma

If there are prosecutions for bad parenting, these morons should be first in the dock.


90 posted on 08/06/2020 6:37:41 PM PDT by anton
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To: wny

I hope it turns out that well.


91 posted on 08/06/2020 6:48:38 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: mkleesma

This is how the story will end in a few years:

“Ryder surrendered peacefully, but the EMTs were unable to save his mother. His estranged father said, “Everyone knew this was coming some day. That’s why I had to get out of there with my other children.”


92 posted on 08/06/2020 6:55:04 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: mkleesma

“‘We tell Ryder she is just a girl who was born with a penis. No biggie.’”

That is right it is child abuse!!


93 posted on 08/06/2020 6:58:23 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Up to the 20th century babies and toddlers often wore dresses, boy or girl. The mom is full of it.


94 posted on 08/06/2020 7:05:01 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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To: Sans-Culotte
And boys wore pink. It was considered a good color for a boy because it was a pale version of red which was a strong masculine color.

She is imposing her cultural and sexual stereotypes on her son.

So unenlightened!

95 posted on 08/06/2020 7:11:48 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: JayGalt

He would.


96 posted on 08/06/2020 7:14:08 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: wny
all the kids....

a kid at 3 "shrugs" at the opinions of other kids?.....I think not....

97 posted on 08/06/2020 7:15:19 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Bommer

>> All sexuality s learned behavior.

To the contrary, if it weren’t instinctive, unlikely we’d exist as a species.

I also believe the rejection of abnormal sexual behavior is also instinctive.

I think it boils down to what a society is willing to tolerate.

Certainly the abnormalities are caused by grooming, abuse, desire which in many cases are “learned”. But no doubt some are wired abnormally.

A mature society must set boundaries — boundaries which are rapidly deteriorating in the West.


98 posted on 08/06/2020 7:24:42 PM PDT by Gene Eric (On Don't be a statist!)
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To: HamiltonJay

At age 9 I believed that I was developing super powers. I didn’t want to tell my dad because l thought he wouldn’t believe me and he would make fun of me.

Then I got the nerve to ”come out” to him. He picked me up and held me upside down, and said get out of this. I sort of lost my superness just like that. I moved on to other strange ideas of my childhood there were hundreds of them. It is part of growing up.


99 posted on 08/06/2020 7:25:11 PM PDT by DazedVet (Self esteem cannot be taught in school but comes from actual achievement.)
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To: Viking2002

“So, you raised a faggot. Bully for you. But nothing a few playground ass-kickings won’t straighten out.”

This 9 year old kid clearly has a psychological issue, probably caused by his freak mother. And you think the poor kid deserves to have his ass kicked for it?

You either aren’t serious or you are a real asshole.

If anybody needs an ass kicking, it’s this kid’s mother.


100 posted on 08/06/2020 7:26:27 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder.)
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