Parents: 4th-Grade Girl To Become Boy

WCVB-Boston ^ | 3/4/2005 | Associated Press

[DBeers]

I guess the question is, does your body determine your gender or does your brain?

No -that's not a question that is detour from physical reality...The exception IF this case is one is an abnormality and eceptions do not define the norm... Gender is assumed by looking and ultimately confirmed AFTER puberty and all it entails -the parents here are ignoring nature...

[gidget7]

That's it in a nutshell!! They are never happy with what God had given them, all they can do is connive, scheme, and rebel to get more more more and different than what blessings they have!

This is DISPICABLE!!!! That poor child!!

How is this even remotely permissible in America????

I feel as though I am going to be sick!

[Syncro]

4th-Grade Girl To Become Boy Mom Says Youngster Has Male Brain

Man, they should have left her alone!

She would have groan up to be the smartest woman in the world.

Dr. Zoo, wouldn't one of your Personality Transplants^tm worked better?

[xm177e2]

"Biologically" would imply they looked at the chromosomes. The child is "xx" not "xy"

Sure.

But what does that prove?

If you take a female fetus and expose it to large amounts of androgens (male hormones) while it's in the womb, it will come out with a male-type brain. So it's still "biologically" a woman in the sense of chromosomes, but the brain is not like that of a normal woman.

And then it naturally follows that we should modify the body to be the same as the brain (because we can't modify the brain to change sex with our current technology, and it would probably be highly unethical to do so even if we could)

[gidget7]

"What's wrong with the "medical proffesionals" who would give out advice like this? This is crazy."



Not to mention the Doctors who perform these operations. SICK!!!! Mutilating kids! And.......somewhere there is a child who really NEEDS surgery for something serious, these doctors waste valuable resources to mutilate.

[zoyd]

That is going to be one severely messed-up kid in about 5 years, and that mess is going to last for decades.

[Syncro]

Note that religion and truth are not always together and butt heads now and then.

Well naturally. Remember Jesus rejected religion for Truth.

[gidget7]

THIS school, in THIS town, in THIS state will celebrate it.

[Hildy]

These parents should be arrested for abuse.

[WV Mountain Mama]

That and she kept measuring this line _____________ as 6 inches.

[MacDorcha]

"If you take a female fetus and expose it to large amounts of androgens (male hormones) while it's in the womb, it will come out with a male-type brain. So it's still "biologically" a woman in the sense of chromosomes, but the brain is not like that of a normal woman."

The exposure to these hormones would have to be the result of their own bodies for this to occur. And since this is a "female" body and not a "male" one, the glands would secrete estorogen. This would over ride a pre-pubecent child's "male" brain.

They had a tomboy and decided to mutilate the kid to make her "normal"

[DBeers]

It would be amazing how small-minded, ignorant and cruel religious people can be in enforcing their delusions on the rest of us, if we didn't see it happen so often.

Take your anti-religious cr*p elsewhere -if you have a gripe with someones opinion address them specifically!!!

[gidget7]

""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.
What the heck does this mean? ""



It doesn't say she was a hermaphrodite, it says she was born with the body OF A GIRL/ and is biologically a girl as well.

[MacDorcha]

Well...we will never know how much they investigated "biologically". It could have been the writer of the article just stating "the girl is biologically a female" so the readers would not be confused that it was born a boy.

There are several combintations of chromosomes that could have made this an ambiguous case. This would have made for a longer and therefore more noteworthy (front page) article. These could have been easily stated without to much detail or tiem required. If this was a hermaphrodite, for interest's sake, they would have mentioned it.

This is a cut and dry transexual, of her parent's wishes.

[gitmo]

"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."

Does this mean she's good at math and has a sense of direction?

[traitorsclaw]

Truly draconian;Is no legal process required? Parents can just employ a clinic to mutilate a child...?

[MacDorcha]

"It doesn't say she was a hermaphrodite, it says she was born with the body OF A GIRL/ and is biologically a girl as well."

BINGO. XX in the girl, and all the perks.

Now shes just going to piss off her future girlfriends (or boyfriends?) when she has her period while dating them. Mood swings of that magnitude from a guy?

[LadyPilgrim]

"""As a tomboy, I find this hysterical!"""

Me and you both!

Talk about pushing the envelope!

[trubluolyguy]

Only in Massachussettes.

[kcvl]

As a tomboy, I find this hysterical!

Ditto!