Well, I’m not really intending to push anything, Jim. I frankly don’t have any answers. And I’m not pretending to.
Nor am I making any excuses at all for parents who, at the first sign of Johnny wanting to play with dolls, proclaim him a “she.”
I’m just noting that in RARE instances there are some odd things in the world.
On kind of a different note, are you familiar with the Hensel twins?
I don’t give a damn about the one in ten million flukes. We’re not going to turn our society upside down and inside out for these people!
Recognize it as a mental or physical illness and treat it accordingly. I wouldn’t be surprised if the parents were positively reinforcing this behavior, thus grooming him.
These conditions are treatable. Either there is a genetic or epigenetic effect on a developing embryo or it is environmental. All those things can be fixed.