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12-year-old 'transsexual' given hormone treatment
WorldNetDaily ^ | 1/28/07 | WorldNetDaily

Posted on 01/28/2007 9:53:56 AM PST by wagglebee

A German boy, now 14, is believed to be the youngest patient in the world pursuing gender reassignment after convincing doctors two years ago he wanted to live as a female.

Doctors say the boy, born "Tim," has considered himself female since he was two.

According to his parents, Tim tried on his older sisters clothes and played with her Barbie dolls, announcing, "I'm a girl." The boy was distraught after every haircut, they said, and at four, he took a pair of scissors and threatened to "cut off my thing!" After that incident, Tim was called "Kim" by his family.

"We always saw Kim as a girl, but not as a problem," the father, who was not identified, told Der Spiegel. "In fact, our life was surprisingly normal."

Puberty brought about a drop in Kim's voice and concern for the child's future.

"At that stage we realized that she was terrified of growing facial hair and her voice breaking," said the father.

The family sought medical advice about a possible sex change for Kim, with mixed results.

"Hormone treatment! Gender adjustment! How could you possibly do this to the child?" the family's pediatrician asked the father. Some psychiatrists suggested Kim be placed under observation in a psychiatric hospital.

Eventually, the family contacted Dr. Bernd Meyenburg, the head of a clinic for children and adolescents with sexual identity problems at Frankfurt University. He concluded that Kim represented the "rare ... clear-cut case" for intervention before puberty initiated irreversible changes to his body.

"It would have been a crime to let her grow up as a man," Meyenburg said.

According to Dr. Achim Wuesthof, the endocrinologist who is treating the teen, the procedure to arrest the course of male puberty has been successful thus far. Even though children under 16 are not permitted to undergo sex change in other countries, he and his colleagues thought it best to start early in Kim's case.

"To the best of my knowledge, Kim is the youngest sex change patient in the world," Wuesthof told the London Sunday Telegram. "According to German law, two independent psychiatrists must confirm that the child is indeed transsexual and approve the sex change. Once that has been done, it is best to start as early as possible."

For legal reasons, surgery to remove Kim's male genitals cannot be performed until age 18.

"From a purely medical standpoint we are dealing with the mutilation of a biologically healthy body," said Meyenburg. "We face a real dilemma. If we do something about it, it's irreversible. And if we allow nature to take its course, that too is irreversible."

Meyenburg said he had mixed feelings about the fact that more and more – and younger – patients are seeking him out for advice.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childabuse; homosexualagenda; lola; moralabsolutes; queeragenda; sexchangeoperation; stupidparents; wtf
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To: EGPWS
nods head absolutely... well said!
61 posted on 01/28/2007 12:40:37 PM PST by CourtneyLeigh (Why can't all of America be Commonwealth?)
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To: wagglebee
It's a sad story because this person has a long and very miserable road ahead of them.

I knew someone who had gone from male to female when they were in their late teens/early 20s and their life for years was miserable. Thankfully, she came to know Jesus which not only saved her soul but also her life.

62 posted on 01/28/2007 12:41:54 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Bush Derangement Syndrome Has Reached Pandemic Levels on Free Republic.)
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To: Paved Paradise

It truly is a privilege, and a heaven honoring task! It is a job! Truly it is, and the only reward is that our children grow up honoring their foundation and Gods basics for their livelihood!


63 posted on 01/28/2007 12:41:59 PM PST by CourtneyLeigh (Why can't all of America be Commonwealth?)
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To: Lizavetta
Come now, you can get full body tattoos, tooth implants, et al if you want to be a cat. And all you need is a costume closet for Winston Churchill, there are plenty of reenacters who think they are some dead guy. Those are all completely normal urges, wired into our DNA... OK, puke... I can't even take myself seriously! But you made me laugh, and think of Arsenic and Old Lace
64 posted on 01/28/2007 12:51:19 PM PST by TrogdortheBurninator (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum, Soli proscript catapultas habebunt!)
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To: Albion Wilde
Are there any LEGITIMATE brain studies that suggest that sex is social construct? Lets see sources... oh wait... there really aren't any.
65 posted on 01/28/2007 12:53:02 PM PST by TrogdortheBurninator (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum, Soli proscript catapultas habebunt!)
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To: wagglebee

I used to think that if my current major problem were taken care of, then I'd be happy, until one day I realised all it would do was allow #2 to become the new #1.

Changing his gender isn't going to solve his problems. It'll just take care of the one that's bothering him the most now and when that's gone, #2 problem will move into first place and he'll have new issues to take care of.

It's never over.


66 posted on 01/28/2007 4:41:20 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

It took me a long time to understand that EVERY problem in my life was at one a solution to a previous problem.


67 posted on 01/28/2007 4:43:34 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee
Frankfurt, it figures@ That's the site of the oldest homosexual activist groups in the world and where they began their agenda so many years ago. Every time I read an article, be it about how this agenda got started, how homosexual priest got into the priesthood, whatever, it's always Frankfurt.

When will we stop elevating bad behavior, of all sorts? It really is sick, and this story is one of the sickest.
68 posted on 01/28/2007 6:33:06 PM PST by gidget7 (2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:)
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To: AmericanChef
Quite a few years back, I saw an episode of Oprah, where she and some shrink was encouraging a family to allow a 6 year old to think he was a boy, and do whatever he wanted to make himself a girl. I have not watched her since. I was ill after watching that in disbelief!
69 posted on 01/28/2007 6:38:33 PM PST by gidget7 (2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:)
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To: wagglebee

I'm not saying it isn't sick but when my kids were little, preschool, we had neighbor who played at our house a lot. They referred to him as she... not because anyone told them to. It was sort of weird.


70 posted on 01/28/2007 7:24:22 PM PST by Mercat
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To: Unam Sanctam; TrogdortheBurninator

We're on the same side here. I misconstrued an earlier post due to the ambiguous word "sex" in its broad meaning.


71 posted on 01/28/2007 8:22:32 PM PST by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: wagglebee
There is no such thing as a "transsexual" because one NEVER transfers nor translates one's gender. The only thing that this, and every/any other poor soul who has undergone such an abominable procedure ends up becoming is a "gender mutilant". One who has mutilated his or her gender. In other words, this person is now a man-made chimera. Just one drop of DNA mitochondrial blood for analysis will show his/her true gender. One never escapes that. The only reason that this is now being done is because the field of psychiatry and psychology could NOT come up with a cure for this type of mental illness (although it is always a spiritual illness...and heaven forbid they ever consider that) and it was more simple to claim that one was "born into the wrong body" than it was to admit that it is the wrong "mind" in the right body! No mystery here.
72 posted on 01/29/2007 1:17:48 AM PST by gladtobeme
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To: wagglebee

Amazing how quick we citizens are to criticize other cultures for genitial mutilation when we do the same here and then form alliances (ie the GLBT, and GLSEN) and seek more children for recruitment. This is sick and what is even sicker is the sexually mutilated and mentally deranged are collecting money for their cause, the GLBT alliance, on every college campus in the country.


73 posted on 01/29/2007 6:19:33 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
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To: RockinRight


What are you saying?? Hormones are present at all times.


74 posted on 01/29/2007 8:06:47 AM PST by dcnd9
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To: dcnd9

In very small quantities. Rising sharply at puberty. After initial gender and genital development in utero, hormones are pretty much a non-factor until puberty.


75 posted on 01/29/2007 8:10:25 AM PST by RockinRight (To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: kinoxi

It is abusive to let this child like this and not seek counseling. How would a child even know to think or act this way. It is a spiritual thing.


76 posted on 01/29/2007 8:12:46 AM PST by brwnsuga
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To: Unam Sanctam

Sex is a biological fact

What about gender? Is there a difference between gender and sex?


77 posted on 01/29/2007 8:14:30 AM PST by brwnsuga
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To: FreeAtlanta

Why not give the boy testosterone

He would go through precocious puberty which might cause his bones to fuse and stunt his growth if he hasn't reached his full adult height


78 posted on 01/29/2007 8:16:57 AM PST by brwnsuga
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To: TrogdortheBurninator

Correct, there aren't any. The few differences in the male and female brain follow a rigid XY/XX pattern of differentiation. There are a couple of extremely rare endocrine diseases - for instance, androgen insensitivity syndrome - which can play havoc with development but in virtually all these cases of "trangendered" identities the issues are psychological, not biological.


79 posted on 01/29/2007 8:21:46 AM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: Dallas59

They'll give him one out of a test tube.


80 posted on 01/29/2007 9:05:51 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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