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Parents: 4th-Grade Girl To Become Boy
WCVB-Boston ^ | 3/4/2005 | Associated Press

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bluestateideals; boston; childabuse; confused; cpswatch; dss; dumbparents; homosexualagenda; liberalfreaks; massachusetts; methuen; paulcjesup; students; transgender
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To: sonserae

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.


241 posted on 03/04/2005 11:10:55 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: dead

Post 114. That's the best explanation of heard in a long time. For anything.


242 posted on 03/04/2005 11:15:21 AM PST by Graymatter ("President Bush sends his regards.")
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To: Polybius

Best answer yet! Thanks


243 posted on 03/04/2005 11:17:37 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: dead
Brilliant...

A brilliant peek into the mind of the liberal wing-nuts...
244 posted on 03/04/2005 11:18:09 AM PST by Barney59 (Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!)
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To: cwiz24

This is definitely one of the more retarded things I have read.


245 posted on 03/04/2005 11:20:00 AM PST by Dustbunny (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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To: Gumdrop

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.


246 posted on 03/04/2005 11:49:54 AM PST by sonserae
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To: BykrBayb

Your page is cool- Free Terri!


247 posted on 03/04/2005 11:56:52 AM PST by mafree
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To: mafree

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.


248 posted on 03/04/2005 12:05:23 PM PST by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

249 posted on 03/04/2005 12:06:11 PM PST by mhking (Do not mess with dragons, for thou art crunchy & good with ketchup...)
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To: Polybius
Some faves from my Male Brains file...


250 posted on 03/04/2005 12:07:01 PM PST by Graymatter
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To: cwiz24

Democrats... (Eddie Murphy laugh)...


251 posted on 03/04/2005 12:17:29 PM PST by hosepipe (This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
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To: cwiz24; NYC GOP Chick
Didn't check if this was posted yet, but Pete Townshend addressed this issue nearly 40 years ago:

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__

252 posted on 03/04/2005 12:22:48 PM PST by Clemenza (Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
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To: rintense
As a tomboy, I find this hysterical!

Keep it up mister. ; )

253 posted on 03/04/2005 12:23:55 PM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: Clemenza
"Osgood, I won't fit into your mother's wedding dress."
"We can have it altered."
"Oh no ya don't!!"


254 posted on 03/04/2005 12:31:55 PM PST by Graymatter
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To: cwiz24
First, I would like to know:

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.

255 posted on 03/04/2005 12:36:06 PM PST by CitizenM (GOD SAVE OUR CHILDREN from teachers, terrorists, preditors, and liberals. Amen)
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To: cwiz24
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.

WTF? So the parents will now have the son they always wanted.

256 posted on 03/04/2005 12:46:35 PM PST by Jaded (My sheeple, my sheeple....)
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To: sonserae

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.


257 posted on 03/04/2005 12:49:52 PM PST by sassbox
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To: Modernman
"if you transplant a man's brain into a woman's body, what gender is he?"

Too smart for his own good?

oooh this is going to hurt....

258 posted on 03/04/2005 12:51:33 PM PST by shellshocked
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To: cwiz24

"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.


259 posted on 03/04/2005 12:52:09 PM PST by SAMS (Proud Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: cwiz24

And people think I'm crazy!!!


260 posted on 03/04/2005 12:52:27 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. - John Adams)
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