Posted on 05/06/2008 7:22:49 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel
For school officials in Haverford Township, the challenge was daunting: What do you do when a 9-year-old student, with the full support of his parents, decides that he is no longer a boy and instead is a girl?
Parents of a third-grade student at Chatham Park Elementary School approached the administration on April 16 to ask for help in making a "social transition" for their child.
(Excerpt) Full story: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/chester/20080503_School_challenge__Transgender_student_is_age_9.html The Haverford School District consulted experts on transgender children, then sent letters to parents advising them that the guidance counselor would meet with the school's 100 third-grade students to explain why their classmate would now wear girls' clothes and be called by a girl's name.
Some parents objected. Eight called the principal to ask that their child not attend the session, and some posted angry messages on the Haverford Township blog.
"Why is the school introducing this subject to 8- and 9-year-olds?" wrote the parent who started the blog thread, which had been viewed more than 3,000 times as of yesterday. "Why were we not notified sooner. We received the letter today, the discussion at school is tomorrow."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
The liberal's war on society continues.
“What do you do when a 9-year-old student, with the full support of his parents, decides that he is no longer a boy and instead is a girl?”
Point and laugh hysterically?
This kid needs to be transferred to a different school, IMO. Perhaps this kid is a lost cause, or maybe he does have problems, but no need to subject the other kids to it. Move him/her.
Send in child protective services.
You're a boy.
Deal with it.
Kid's parents: You're a couple of pervy little freaks. Quit messin' with the kid's head.
Two words: Home schooling.
Kids at this age are figuring out their identify for themselves. They need guidance, not help in messing themselves up forever.
What about the trans-species students? Why do they have to suffer abuse?
Reading this again, the boy is quite smart. He sees how Society values girls more than boys. He sees, that at this stage our societal evolution, girls are better off than boys and are treated much better. Age 9. Think about it.
Consider the use of restroom and locker room facilities the child?
That ought to be really interesting.
In California the law is already on the side of the “transgendered” and against discrimination in the use of such facilities in public schools.
If it's happening at the age of 9, it's not a "decision."
The school shouldn't allow this situation - the child should be sent to a different school as a girl and no one should be told.
Word up true that.
Liberal moral relativism has erased the stigma of shame, which at one time suppressed these types of behavior. Now, they’re just another victim class in search of a governmental funding source. Pathetic.
Baloney! At nine years old (indeed, much younger) boys are very much aware of being boys (and not girls); girls are very much aware of being girls (and not boys). They may not be fully aware of all the ramifications of that difference, but they're certainly aware of the difference.
Also, he's an XY. Even if they cut off his pee pee, he'll always been an XY. Males can't become femals.
“I’ve decided I’m a goldfish”.
I’m trying to keep it at a 9yo level ... kid probably thinks a “chromosome” is another form of Pokemon ...
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