Posted on 03/04/2005 7:35:11 AM PST by cwiz24
Parents: 4th-Grade Girl To Become Boy Mom Says Youngster Has Male Brain
METHUEN, Mass. -- A fourth-grader who was attending a Methuen elementary school as a girl before February vacation has returned to school as a boy.
The parents of the 9-year-old child said the youngster was born with the body of a girl, but the brain of a boy.
They have asked that he be referred to and treated as a boy by teachers and other students, and school officials are accommodating the request. The parents have even changed the child's name.
The child's mother told The Eagle-Tribune that the family made the decision after consulting with medical professionals. She said the child is still biologically a girl.
The mother has requested that the family not be identified to protect the child.
School Superintendent C. Phillip Littlefield said there is nothing harmful about the child being in the school.
Thanks for your interesting take on this subject. I was also wondering how much of the the story remains untold. Such a decision must have been made with a whole lot of consideration of the consequences. I am doubtful that sane parents along with medical consultants would have done such a thing without some profound reasons.
Still, I do wonder why they did it so early in the child's life. If the child really is a hermaphrodite exhibiting characteristics of both genders, perhaps it is better to rectify the ambivalence early before puberty?
Strange story, indeed.
Post 114. That's the best explanation of heard in a long time. For anything.
Best answer yet! Thanks
This is definitely one of the more retarded things I have read.
Although I'm very conservative, I've become more aware of something that is not really talked about...I read the book "Middlesex" last year. Although it was a fictional story, it has a lot of facts about people born as hermaphrodites. So much of our society is classed as either "male" or "female". I really started to feel sympathetic towards the person who actually had BOTH male and female reproductive organs.
Many people are mistaken when they give birth to a baby that by all appearances looks like a girl....but around puberty, a small stem grows out of the clitoris....actually a penis...So, even though the person looks like a girl, she has more male hormones than female ones. The confusion the child feels must be so overwhelming.
In the past, when recognized by doctors, they would surgically remove this abnormality at birth. Actually, they were removing the parts that had nerves and feelings and the person basically grew up mutilated without any sexual function or feeling at all.
It's a sad and heart-wrenching thing and more people and parents than anyone realizes, goes through this....
I highly recommend the book for more insight in this matter.
Your page is cool- Free Terri!
Your page is cool too. I especially like the part about being raised in a traditional home, with a stay at home Mom. I had that for part of my childhood, and so did my son. I wish all kids could have that for their entire childhood.
Just damn.
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Democrats... (Eddie Murphy laugh)...
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 headcase
They practice making up on my face
Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear
Spend ages taking hairpins from my hair
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But if I say I am I get it
Put your frock on Jean Marie
Plait your hair Felicity
Paint your nails, little Sally Joy
Put this wig on, little boy
I wanna play cricket on the green
Ride my bike across the stream
Cut myself and see my blood
I wanna come home all covered in mud
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
I'm a boy, I'm a boy, I'm a boy
I'm a boy, I'm a boy, I'm a boy, I'm a boy
I'm a boy, I'm a boy, I'm__ a__ boy__
Keep it up mister. ; )
How did this story get out to the news?
I mean, if the parents "...requested that the family not be identified to protect the child... then who told the papers? I smell something very wrong here.
Either: The parents are not only crazy for doing such a thing, but they also have heartlessly leaked this story in order for this to have reached the papers.
Or: Did the school tell? That could have some serious repercussions.
If the parents: Have they sacraficed their child in the name of a "cause" or their belief in a lifestyle? The child's name will be learned, that is for sure, if this is appearing in the news. What next? Law suits for causing the child mental anguish because others know?
I think this is the kind of story that will lead to another about the person/people who made it known and who has/have an underlying agenda, pro or con. The poor kid.
WTF? So the parents will now have the son they always wanted.
that was my first guess too, that this case might involve some sort of hermaphroditism, a birth defect involving the genitals, something like that. If not, than this is one sick situation and those parents are criminals.
Too smart for his own good?
oooh this is going to hurt....
"School Superintendent C. Phillip Littlefield said there is nothing harmful about the child being in the school"
RIIIIIIIGHT, this is an a$$ kicking just waiting to happen.
And people think I'm crazy!!!
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