Posted on 04/25/2015 1:52:32 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Washington (CNN)Rep. Mike Honda this week became one of the first lawmakers in Congress to support the idea of a gender spectrum and publicly announce a family member, his granddaughter, is transgender.
The California Democrat urged acceptance of transgender individuals in a profile of his 8-year-old granddaughter Malisa, who was born a boy, in the San Jose Mercury News.
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People may say, "It's just a phase or they'll grow out of it," Honda told the paper.
"But we have to be a little bit more in tune with what youngsters are telling us. From there we can develop better solutions, be more thoughtful," he added.
The congressman, who is a member of the House LGBTQ caucus, hadn't publicly spoken about his granddaughter's transition until recently.
He had the family take a new photo for his campaign materials last cycle to reflect his granddaughter's new identity, telling Malisa that "we need you to be who you are in the campaign photos."
On Wednesday, he brought it to wider attention with a tweet saying he's the "proud grandpa of a transgender grandchild."
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America has descended into abject madness.
No such things anymore as ‘male’ or ‘female.’ Truths or falsehoods. Good or evil. Indicative of a culture and a society that is totally coming apart at the seams. Our country has become morally dead, and the end-game is finally coming into view.
I was a tomboy (lots of girls were around 8 or 9 when I grew up). I liked doing “boy stuff”, climbing trees, playing marbles, playing baseball, etc. And so did my friends. Gad! Imagine if someone had taken me seriously when I’d said “I wish I was a boy!”
Me, too. A neighborhood full of boys so if I was gonna have any fun, it was with the guys. Even got my own football uniform when I was 9. Never thought I was a boy, though.
It is no wonder the child is confused.
That leads to male fish and amphibians having egg proteins in their testicles. And what else? And who else? I guess we'll find out.
That leads to male fish and amphibians having egg proteins in their testicles. And what else? And who else? I guess we'll find out.
Thanks for posting the picture.
Something in the contaminated Frankenfood, crop-dusted air, poisoned water, for sure. Not only all these confused people, but I hardly see real men anymore in certain pockets of the country. Seems like a metrosexual explosion, even their faces and voices are different.
These children are definitely being influenced to think of themselves as transgendered. With all of the publicity about transgenderism children must be asking their parents about this, even parents who want to be ahead of the politically correct curve may bring up the subject for discussion thereby putting the question in the child’s mind. Children have no way of really understanding this and may well start asking questions, a naïve parent may further influence the child by making them feel that they may be transgender, there are parents who are easily influenced by the culture as well.
I think people such as Bruce Jenner who was born before the recent transgender movement may have been influenced by parents or a parent who wanted a girl and projected their wants on to their son. Children’s minds are very impressionable and easily shaped. I wish I knew more about this, there doesn’t seem to be much information available.
I really think there is something that is causing it. It’s crazy.
I heard of a transgendered who claims that he felt like a girl at age two. Who remembers what they were feeling at age two?
No fem homosexual was born lisping, nor having any of the other affectations they take on later in life.
When the cultural "norm", for men, was not "metrosexual", men didn't look nor act as some do now.
Look at the families that the now "famous" so-called "transgendered" kids come from.....many are all boys, with the "strange" one declaring that he isn't a boy at all. I bet that the mother wanted a girl and encourages that change. The same is true in the reverse. That and the fact that it's now a way of making money off the kid's derangement and/or, as in this case, another family member using it for political means.
Nobody. Perhaps it was suggested to him.
It’s the idiot parents pushing this disgusting stuff so they can get attention. Nothing unusual about a young child saying he wants to be something he is not — the opposite sex, a superhero, a dog, etc. It is a momentary flight of fancy.
Good example occurred in my house recently. I was babysitting two of my grandsons, when the younger one, 2 1/2, handed me a piece of string that had a loop in it that vaguely resembled a bow. He asked me to put it in his hair so that he could be a “gale”. I complied, he looked in the mirror to see himself, and then he was back to dressing as Darth Vader, leaving behind his brief life as a girl.
Too many idiot parents make something of this sort of exchange. I guess too many of them are so obsessed with sex, that it tints their thinking. My grandson’s “gale” association was based merely on the fact that he saw a pattern — the bow — that he associates with a girl’s attire; he is not even thinking about sex organs. He is much too young to make such associations.
Same kid, BTW, when asked, told me he knows that my dog is a boy because of his collar. :)
You pretty much have to relegate yourself to watching old movies and tv-shows to encounter displays of masculinity and manliness nowadays.
The cultural juxtapositon is really jaw-dropping. Just 50 years ago, the tv-landscape was awash with shows like “Have Gun, Will Travel,” “The Untouchables,” “Sea Hunt,” “Gunsmoke,” “Highway Patrol,” and such. Male stars like Rod Cameron, Rory Calhoun, Richard Boone, and countless others. The whole way they comported themselves. And that’s how men used to act and behave, throughout society.
Men now? Endless drama-queen faggotry.
Most Cows get fed estrogen..Most Hens Get fed Estrogen theres even a trace of estrogen in drinking water..
That combined with the general Feminization of America....has produced some scarey results.
Either one of these angles...would be pretty bizarre..
combined? well, we see it every day.
About parents who will do anything to bring attention to themselves—that is what Munchhausen by Proxy Syndrome is. A parent will deliberately poison a child in order to get attention from the doctors. How sick is this and it seems like the parent is living in a state of denial while doing this. I think that parents who put these impressions into children’s minds are poisoning their thoughts just as the Munchhausen parents are poisoning the children’s bodies. The parents are probably living in a state of denial as they inflict this mental illness on their children.
Did you hear about the couple in Sweden who were raising their child as a “it”. They would not reveal whether the child was a boy or a girl, gave the child a nonsexual name and dressed the child in an asexual way. These insane parents are doing this for some bizarre politically correct reason so they were aware of what they were doing and they still did it with full consciousness. How many other parents may be unaware of their own deep seated feelings and begin to influence the child in subtle ways at a very young age.
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