Posted on 07/19/2006 7:20:21 AM PDT by presidio9
Few will know this genetic truth, because the 5-year-old's parents and school administrators have agreed that it's in his best interest to blend in as a female.
Mental health professionals have diagnosed Pat - not his real name - with gender dysphoria, a condition in which a person believes that he or she is the opposite gender. After two years of examination, they have determined that he is not simply effeminate or going through a phase.
"Gender dysphoria can take place during a fetus' development in the womb," said noted gender specialist and sexologist Marilyn Volker, Ph.D., of Miami.
While this tyke is likely the youngest transgendered child admitted to a South Florida school, he is not unique. Both the Broward and Miami-Dade County school systems have policies in place to smooth the way for such students and their families.
Equality Florida, which advocates for Florida's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, and PFLAG - Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays - say the two school districts have the most progressive policies in the state.
Broward and Miami-Dade are among the most exemplary school districts "when it comes to the rights of transgendered people," said Tobias Packer, South Florida Field Organizer for Equality Florida, who himself is transgendered.
Student victims
Carole Benowitz, Florida state coordinator for PFLAG, agrees. Her adult son is gay.
Benowitz said that two years ago - at a Broward high school she declined to name - she was called in after a group of boys beat up another student, whom they believed to be an effeminate boy. In fact, the victim was transgendered - a biological female who looked, dressed and behaved like a male. Benowitz was brought in to counsel the administrators, the students and the victim.
"People have an understanding
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Good news for the private schools in the area.
Just plain sad
The proper cure is to arrest the "mental health professionals" who think that catering to a child's damaging delusions is a form of care.
Mental health professionals
Well, there's the problem.................
and the parents of this 5 year old must be real winners.
As has been said many times before, a lot of five-year-olds think they're Luke Skywalker, that doesn't mean we pull them out of school and start giving them light saber training.
Years ago, they announced out of SF that autopsies had shown that gays had a smaller than normal hypothalimus.
The next morning the announce for Rush Limbaugh announced him as the man with the largest known hypothalimus.
Rush then came on and said that this was great news, now we can identify them before birth and abort them. That was last ever heard about that theory.
What do you think the other parents are going to say when they find out that there is a boy in the girl's room?
"Mommy, why is Mary different than me down there? Why can she have one and I don't. She let me touch it, but it felt ickkie".
It's a liberal dogma. If they say it loud and long enough, not only do they believe it themselves but some of the sheeple do also.
When my nephew was five, he wanted to be a kangaroo. If he had lived in this school district, I guess he'd still be wearing a furry 'roo costume.
These liberal idiots should be arrested for endangering the welfare of a child.
What if he believed he was a dog? A 40-year old? A Cuban refugee? Would they cater to that too?
Do you realize they started 'examining' him when he was THREE??
Not as bad as Avian Dysphoria, though. I knew a guy who used to stay on the roof of the school and who took a dump on peopl e as they passed. (of course, he wasn't the one who thought he was a bird, he was just really weird...)
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You know predidio9, it's statements like this that hurt the rebellion. The rebel alliance is desparately in need of padoin jedis-in-training and our recruiting budget gets slashed all the time.
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...and now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
"As has been said many times before, a lot of five-year-olds think they're Luke Skywalker, that doesn't mean we pull them out of school and start giving them light saber training."
This statement made me laugh, it's so true. My 3 yr old daughter thinks she's Ariel (The Little Mermaid), but I don't let her swim in the pool by herself (which she assures me she can do).
I was one of those in the 80's. Or was it the 70's?
My five year old granddaughter thinks she is the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet.
You right. That was irresponsible. Comparing homosexuals to padoin jedis is about as fair as equating gay marriage with the Civil Rights movement.
I knew a kid who thought he was a tank. He would manuver into position with his arm straight out in front of him and fire at unsuspecting passerbys.
That would really cause them a delimma. Support the diversity or allow a weapon in school?
Most likely, the 'parents' are homo activists, and they're shamelessly using their child as a pawn for their 'agenda'.
Not that I would doubt that the child with gay parents might be a bit 'confused'. I'll bet that they're man-hating lesbians that just couldn't stand the fact that they had a son.
Poor child. This whole thing sickens me.
Sick
Why am I not suprised? Oh, right, . the rules are different down here in So Flo-Da. Besides it won't be little Havana or the 'saguesera', probably some 'hoity-toity burb' in North east Dade,... Aventura? Are there actually any children there? Maybe that's the problem.
LOL! Years ago there was a four year old boy on our street to whom I'd say, "Goodmorning, Tommy," to which, with deadly sincererity, he would reply, "I'm not Tommy. I'm Zorro!" Today that little boy is a talk show host.
I heard that theory too. Another problem was that they couldn't establish whether the difference was the cause of the homosexual behavior, or the effect.
He and his three older siblings - two girls and a boy - live in a middle-class Broward County neighborhood with their father, an attorney, and their mother, who has a master's degree in counseling.
Pat's parents had never heard of gender dysphoria until they took their child for treatment. He was insisting that he was a girl, and often tried to hide his penis between his legs.
After long consultation with a team of pediatric endocrinologists and therapists, then with school officials, the parents decided that it was in Pat's best interest to live as a girl.
"The school officials have agreed to continue working with the family and medical professionals to help create an environment that will maximize the child's ability to learn and grow within the school system," said family attorney Karen Doering, who specializes in defending the rights of people who are transgendered, gay, bisexual or lesbian.
"a biological female who looked, dressed and behaved like a male" We used to call 'em "Tomboys". All of "em I knew grew up to be fine wives and mothers.
I also have friends who were labeled "sissys" and "momma's boys" growing up. All are heterosexual.
If I was that kid's parents, I'd get him signed up for martial arts classes pronto, so he won't get his/her ass kicked in middle school..
When I was five... I thought I was Superman. I wish someone had talked me out of it before I jumped off my grandmother's front porch and cut my head.
This is further proof, as if I needed anymore, that I made the right call by sending my kids to private schools here in Miami. I feel sorry for this young child that is clearly being used by these radical homosexuals to advance their agenda. I can only imagine what idiots the parents must be to go along with this.
I wonder what other kids' parents (esp. girls) are gonna say about "Pat" using the girls' bathroom? And shower, once he gets to high school?
Also, most of the autopsies were on AIDS patients, so that could be a factor also.
It was John Wayne for me.
Help! I think I might be a lesbian trapped inside the body of a man. I demand my Constitutional right to use the ladies locker room.
"when it comes to the rights of transgendered people,"
It is as possible to change one's sex (the DNA doesn't change and neither does reproductive functionality) as it is to change one's race.
Is this little boy is a lesbian?
There is a documented case in Canada of two twin boys. One of the boys had a surgical accident during circumcision. A very evil and sick "medical health professional" convinced the parents to perform an "experiment" with his life and totally remove his penis and raise the boy as a girl.
It was tragic. The boy went insane, and in later life was consumed by drugs, alcohol, and suicidal tendencies.
He later re-assumed his role as a male when he could break away from the "doctor" and his parents, but I believe he killed himself a few years ago.
Anyone else know about this tragic story? It was on a television program.
REG: Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man--
STAN: Or woman.
REG: Why don't you shut up about women, Stan. You're putting us off.
STAN: Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.
FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It's my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But... you can't have babies.
LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.
REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: [crying]
JUDITH: Here! I-- I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What's the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
We live in a totally female dominated society, who isn't confused....
I remember some FR threads as the news stories circulated.
I do not know what became of him or the mad scientist who decided to experiment with someone else's life.
Don't worry, my boys are wearing their Superman underwear today. So far I have been only letting them jump off the couch to fly, even though they think it would be better training to let them jump off the roof. I will go let them now, it is afterall for the good of mankind, or at least their feelings (in the short term.)
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