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 ...
Where’s John Stormer these days? Time to update “None Dare Call It Education.”
“Why were we not notified sooner. We received the letter today, the discussion at school is tomorrow.”
Ummm...so you had no time to organize a protest and contact the media to cover it? /blondism
Children’s Hospital launches sex change for kids program
By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
A doctor at the renowned Children’s Hospital Boston has launched a new program to drug children to delay puberty so they can decide whether they want a male or a female body, according to a report today in the Boston Globe.
Pediatric endocrinologist Norman Spack, 64, says he started the Gender Management Service Clinic because he found himself encountering 20-somethings who were “transgendered” and in good shape socially, “but they were having trouble getting their physique to conform to their identity.
“I knew the 20-somethings could have better chances of passing if they were treated earlier,” he said.
“We don’t think that demonic is too strong a word to describe this,” said a statement from the pro-family Mass Resistance organization. “It brings us thoughts of the Nazi doctors who thought they were doing good things.”
WND has reported previously on some of the controversies prompted by the belief that a man can be born in a woman’s body, or vice versa, including in Montgomery County, Md., where county officials have adopted a law that precludes those who provide public accommodations from discriminating based on that “gender identity.”
“Is this our future?” asked Mass Resistance in a commentary. “Dr. Norman Spack runs a clinic for young children who’ve ‘decided’ they are transgendered. Among other things, the clinic administers powerful hormones to delay (or even stop) puberty in order that the children more easily undergo operations that mutilate their bodies to ‘change’ them to the opposite sex.”
“This is going on at the world-renowned Children’s Hospital in Boston – not some backwater clinic. This is the elite of the medical profession,” the organization said.
In a question-and-answer session with Globe columnist Pagan Kennedy, she starts the apologetic for doing surgery on children by saying, “Little boys sob unless they’re allowed to wear dresses. The girls want to be called Luke, Ted, or James.”
“Until recently, children with cross-gender feelings rarely received modern medical care – and certainly not hormone shots. After all, who would allow a child to redesign his or her body?” she asks.
But Spack, she wrote, has started a clinic that “is one of the few in the world to give children treatments that change their bodies.”
She reports he uses drugs to delay puberty, “granting them a few more years before they develop bodies that are decidedly male or female.”
Spack tells the interviewer he’s seen “preadolescents” who have been dressing in underwear of the opposite sex “for years.”
“The puberty-blocking drugs work best at the beginning of the pubital process, typically age 10 to 12 for a girl and 12 to 14 for a boy,” he said. He’s based some of his work on a Dutch model for sex-change, and said the recommendations there are age 16 for hormones that forever change a child’s body.
But “for others,” he wrote, “you lose opportunities if you wait. [One of my patients, a] transgendered girl from the UK, was destined to be a 6-foot-4 male. With treatment, she’s going to end up 5-foot-10.”
He said such treatments not only change the physical characteristics of the growing children, but also could leave them sterile for life.
“You have to explain to the patients that if they go ahead, they may not be able to have children. … But if you don’t start treatment, they will always have trouble fitting in,” he said.
“This isn’t conjecture,” Mass Resistance’ commentary said. “It’s happening now. And ‘transgenderism’ is being promoted to kids by homosexual/transgender activists in the public schools.”
Children as young as 12 already have been given the treatment.
Meanwhile, LifeSiteNews has reported that Spack previously acknowledged that only about 20 percent of children who claim to have a confusion over their gender hold thoseThe hospital itself calls the program “unique in the Western hemisphere.”
“This will be the first major program in the country that … [is] also welcoming young people who appear to be transgendered and are considering medical protocols that might help them,” Spack said.
Every 9 year old boy worth his spit knows that 9 year old girls have cooties, and that 9 year old trannies have megga-ubercooties.
9 years old? I was busy blowing up models with firecrackers and M80s. My how things have changed.
My first thought is this the result of a family where there are two mommies or two daddies.
Gay’s with kids will create some strange feelings in the kid.
One of my children believed he was a dinosaur at one point.
I imagine these parents overreacting to their kid just being imaginative and creative, and the kid is taking things further and further, reacting to their overreactions.
I'm a lumberjack, and I'm OK ...
It’s ironic how liberals always want to talk about the “slippery slope,” as it pertains to free speech and the right of expression or their privacy........
The liberal mind is a sick place.
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.
Third grade?...Are you kidding me? When will this nonsense end? Stop educating 100 third graders to explain why one boy wants to now wear girls clothes? Holy crap!
So, you sleep all night and work all day?
This youngsters parents biological progenitors really ARE progressive.
The liberal mind is a sick place.
Unfortunately these liberal minds are the majority in public education. It’s so out of date to teach english, science, math and history. It’s better to teach kids how to put a condom on a cucumber and why Bobby likes Gary.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/boyturnedgirl_transcript.shtml
“Kids figure out their identity LONG before age 9.”
That is VERY true. You know what team you play on earlier than 9.
I was trying to woo the ladies when I was in Kidnergarten.
Had my first rejection. She spit a mouth full of water in my face.
I took that as a “no” she did not want to talk.
Exactly! In the article vagueness surrounds the parents. I suspect that this is one of those 'two mommy' families and the child is reacting to his environment. The 'parents' of this kid are mentioned in passing with no reference to a mother or a father. Strange.
Don’t ask, don’t tell.
Can you become “transracial”? Live your life as the member of another ethnicity or skin color?
DNA doesn’t change.
Liberals are a-ok with sexual experimentation but if there is a pregnant 10 year old, they wonder "how does this happen?!!!".
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.