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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: Modernman
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...

281 posted on 03/04/2005 2:24:25 PM PST by DBeers
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To: wk4bush2004
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!
282 posted on 03/04/2005 2:24:42 PM PST by gidget7
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To: cwiz24; Dr. Zoo
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 Transplantstm worked better?

283 posted on 03/04/2005 2:26:04 PM PST by Syncro (Paging the Institute of Phenomonology:>)
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To: MacDorcha
"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)

284 posted on 03/04/2005 2:27:09 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: msp2004
"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.
285 posted on 03/04/2005 2:28:33 PM PST by gidget7
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To: cwiz24

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


286 posted on 03/04/2005 2:28:41 PM PST by zoyd (I'm with the government. We're going to make you like your neighbor.)
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To: Paul C. Jesup
Note that religion and truth are not always together and butt heads now and then.

Well naturally. Remember Jesus rejected religion for Truth.

287 posted on 03/04/2005 2:29:05 PM PST by Syncro
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To: ClearCase_guy

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


288 posted on 03/04/2005 2:29:51 PM PST by gidget7
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To: The Old Hoosier

These parents should be arrested for abuse.


289 posted on 03/04/2005 2:31:01 PM PST by Hildy
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To: Tijeras_Slim

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


290 posted on 03/04/2005 2:33:24 PM PST by WV Mountain Mama (Good luck to my brother in law Mike, competing in Ironman New Zealand, March 2005.)
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To: xm177e2

"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"


291 posted on 03/04/2005 2:37:02 PM PST by MacDorcha (When I say "democratic" I don't mean "Athenian Mob Rule")
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To: xm177e2
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!!!

292 posted on 03/04/2005 2:38:20 PM PST by DBeers
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To: Modernman
""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.
293 posted on 03/04/2005 2:38:51 PM PST by gidget7
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To: sonserae

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.


294 posted on 03/04/2005 2:40:22 PM PST by MacDorcha (When I say "democratic" I don't mean "Athenian Mob Rule")
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To: Spunky
"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?

295 posted on 03/04/2005 2:41:41 PM PST by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: cwiz24

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


296 posted on 03/04/2005 2:42:15 PM PST by traitorsclaw
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To: gidget7

"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?


297 posted on 03/04/2005 2:42:29 PM PST by MacDorcha (When I say "democratic" I don't mean "Athenian Mob Rule")
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To: rintense
"""As a tomboy, I find this hysterical!"""

Me and you both!

Talk about pushing the envelope!

298 posted on 03/04/2005 2:42:47 PM PST by LadyPilgrim (Sealed my Pardon with HIS BLOOD!!! Hallelujah!!! What a Saviour)
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To: cwiz24

Only in Massachussettes.


299 posted on 03/04/2005 2:43:14 PM PST by trubluolyguy ("You think that's tough, try losing a testicle in a knife fight with your mother")
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To: rintense
As a tomboy, I find this hysterical!

Ditto!

300 posted on 03/04/2005 2:43:31 PM PST by kcvl
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