[Anarchist]

This is probably not a behavioral issue. Instead, it is a birth-defect issue. A child can be born with physical deformities such as webbed feet or a cleft palate. There can also be mental deformities such as Down's Syndrome.

Surely all of us would be compassionate to those children with such problems. Unless, of course, the birth defect involves sexuality, then some people just freak out.

When I was younger I mocked people with gender problems. I scorned them. Until an old man advised me to say to myself when I was tempted make fun of such people or to condemn them: "There, but for the Grace of God, go I."

I'm an old man now, and now I know the wisdom of that advice.

[andysandmikesmom]

I think what you say here, about birth-defects, is important......there are, everyday, children born, and the doctors are unsure as to what gender they actually are...because at birth its not clear....and as the child growns over months, its still not clear...often the doctors will tell the parents that it is in the best interest of the child to assign it a gender and stick with it....

The doctors will usually tell the parents what they believe would be the best for a particular child...depending on the birth deformities...there have been a few documentaries done about these children, tho not many, I must admit...

Some of these children grew up, and altho they were assigned a gender while still very young, and had corrective surgeries to complete that assignment, the child, once grown felt that he/she was the wrong gender..some have even had corrective surgery to become the other gender...

I am not sure how often this happens, but it does happen...trying to believe that it does not happen, is just burying ones head in the sand...

I dont buy into this line about God not making mistakes, and that all babies are born perfect...good grief, not every baby is born perfect...many are born with all sorts of birth defects, some minor, some major and life threatening...

I am not taking any side one way or another...just pointing out, that sometimes babies are indeed born so badly deformed that even the doctors dont know if to say, :"Its a a boy", or "Its a a girl"...

[Houmatt]

This is probably not a behavioral issue. Instead, it is a birth-defect issue. A child can be born with physical deformities such as webbed feet or a cleft palate. There can also be mental deformities such as Down's Syndrome.

You know, in all honesty, when I saw this, I almost lost my dinner.

You are actually comparing transsexuals to Down's Syndrome? Are you insane?

You want to talk about God and wisdom, how about this:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.