the problem is the adults not the kids... rather then being helpful to a child confused about there sexual identity you have parents and other adults in that child’s life advocating for gender dysplasia.... I have a sister that suffers from gender dysplasia it is real and can be caused by serval factors. I have a friend who has a child who might or might not have this problem and has taken in a teenager who claimed to have it... she probably has been abused and is reacting to it.....I told my friend not to put any pressure on the girls about identifying either way. at this time a year has passed and it is looking as if the girl has decided that yes she is a girl not a boy but the situation is still fluid and only time will tell. my friends daughter is still up in the air on what’s going on at this point she is claiming to be asexual. the biggest problem that both theses girls have is that my friend who is a liberal had been advocating before I pointed out that she was doing it. for both girls seemed to improve to her when I suggested not having an opinion one way or an other. because this is mental illness I really think there is a stress component to all of this....
because I have been yelled at in the forum when talking about this issue both of the girls were born girl and are confused and wanted to be identified as boys
just thought I would give my two cents in because I am sure that I am probably one of the few here in the forum that has had practical experience with this issue.
Exactly.
You bet there is a stress component to all this...it comes from hand-wringing (chronological) adults allowing for the "identification" to take place in a vacuum. Rather than to encourage normalization based on their biological sex, we're abdicating our societal role by avoiding, rather than affirming their sex. The choice has been made for us; we only have to acknowledge it and move on.
In hundreds of years of history, there has been a period of time in kids lives where they see more positives in the opposite sexes lives. For hundreds of years, the desire to mutilate your body for it was almost non existent. If you eliminate those folks who think they are homosexual, the numbers change dramatically.
Parenting teens is tough and requires a real series of discussion in how dangerous this lifestyle is. The abuse from sexual predators, the immense health risks in the epigenesis of bathing your genes in the wrong hormones and the very high risk of contracting diseases that were almost unheard of 5 years ago.
This is a form of teenage rebellion against truth. It is, unfortunately, one that carries a vey high price and it is the parents responsibility to protect them from that.