Trans-Gender Kids
Dirtie_Frank
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https://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/laverne-cox-meets-7-year-old-transgender-girl-words-of-wisdom-161812805.html
The Above story is about a seven year old trans-gender boy. Now I am all for adults doing what they feel is right, but how does a child at 7 know that he is a girl. OI also read that the child has been identified as trans-gender at the age of 3. Are you fucking kidding me? 3? I have three children between the ages of 7 and 15 months. They barely can decide what ice cream they like let alone what gender they are and at 3. I have to find a source for the choice at 3, but I do recall a story on Rolling Stones about a trans gender at 3. I know this is their child but isn't this a bit much?
The Above story is about a seven year old trans-gender boy. Now I am all for adults doing what they feel is right, but how does a child at 7 know that he is a girl. OI also read that the child has been identified as trans-gender at the age of 3. Are you fucking kidding me? 3? I have three children between the ages of 7 and 15 months. They barely can decide what ice cream they like let alone what gender they are and at 3. I have to find a source for the choice at 3, but I do recall a story on Rolling Stones about a trans gender at 3. I know this is their child but isn't this a bit much?
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A possible complicating factor these days could be the (very unusual) instance of parents pushing a trans agenda on their a non-trans little kid who has typical identity fluidity. I'm sure this wouldn't occur very often but some people really seem to jump on bandwagons.
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/about-a-girl-coy-mathis-fight-to-change-change-gender-20131028
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The last statement is something I thought of when reading Frank's post. Having very little faith in humanity, I made a very uninformed and judgemental opinion that these parents might be another set of doughheads that might have been motivated by a trend and for publicity: they've already sought it versus contently living life and feeling as if they did what was necessary and critical for the development and happiness of their child.
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-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
You don't like the shorts or pajamas, then how about this: Wearing a dress to school = wearing a Halloween costume to school in April. Both are inappropriate because both are distractions. A boy wearing a dress to school is a distraction that would disrupt any classroom of five year old's in this country. If you want to let your child run around the backyard in a dress, go for it. Don't send them to school that way and impact other children.
The problem here isn't the dress or the child, it is the parents. Thanks though for trying to declare what I have a problem with and what offends me. We can't all be as enlightened as you.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
Agree there should be boundaries and likely would steer my child not to want to wear the dress and why but if they insisted. At home have at it.
Katharine Hepburn was an icon for women wearing pants; has nothing to do with identifying as a man.
These things are - or can be - inconsequential. I don't doubt some have sensed themselves at a young age, but is it so far-fetched for the child's parents to not rush things along? Patience, talking about and through it, leaving things be as your child ages and re-considers, or even affirms?
People, especially children, need time to cook a bit before being tossed out of the pan too soon and declared a specific dish.
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star-telegram.com/living/health-fitness/article23863225.html
To give a few points from it that may apply to this thread: My first thought on the idea of trans kids and teens is Woah, they are too young to make these kinds of choices. After reading the article, I don't know, but at least I don't feel that they are being coerced into being trans.
The only reason a boy wearing a dress in school would be a distraction is because of parents (like you?) who try to dictate to their own children what is aacceptable in other people's children, thereby pushing societal and gender roles on kids who haven't yet discovered who they are and what they want to be.
Maybe someday boys wearing dresses will be a societal norm. That day is not today.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
Those that can be trusted can change their mind.
Are you suggesting societal norms arise spontaneously?
It seems to me that they come from parents' interpretions of the things their children see and ask about.