Born With the Wrong Body Transgender 10-Year-Old Girl and Her Family Talk to Barbara Walters
Posted on 02/08/2008 10:12:20 AM PST by redrunner
The parents of an 8-year-old boy who wants to live and be treated as a girl have been working with the Douglas County School District to allow their child to attend school as a girl.
The child attended the unnamed school two years ago, and the family and the district have been talking since last fall about the child re-enrolling, said district spokeswoman Whei Wong.
"The discussion has been how best to do it," Wong said Thursday. The goal, she said, is "to ensure the kid feels safe physically and emotionally and other kids don't feel threatened in any way."
Wong said some parents have contacted school officials asking for clarification and direction. "Some parents are really concerned and freaked out about it."
A concerned parent, who asked not to be identified, told 9News, "I see this as being a very difficult situation to explain to my daughter . . . why someone would not want to be the gender they were born with."
A national nonprofit group, TransYouth Family Advocates, has provided assistance in handling the situation.
Transgender children, who are born as one sex and identify with the other, are not uncommon but are not understood by parents and society, TransYouth president Shannon Garcia said.
Parents "don't understand this is a health condition. They don't know why their children are like this, and they don't know where to find help," she said.
Society fears "what they don't understand," she said. "Gender identification and sexual orientation are two very different things."
Laura Thor, a Denver licensed clinical social worker, said parents of transgender children "are relying on the goodness and tolerance of the rest of the public to respond to this child favorably."
Schoolmates and their parents need help in becoming less uncomfortable with the child's looking different and being called by a different name, Thor said.
Is this South Park?
The lunatics rule the asylum now.
“Parents “don’t understand this is a health condition.”
It is a health condition: mental health.
Did I miss something or did they leave out any comment by the parents? Seems strange that they did...
The parents need a nice new coat with long sleeves that tie in the back and a room with lots of soft padding with no windows.
“Transgender children, who are born as one sex and identify with the other, are not uncommon but are not understood by parents and society, TransYouth president Shannon Garcia said.”
WELL!!! I’m shocked...SHOCKED, Shannon would make such a statement...
This kid has either been abused, or the parents are messing with his head.
It's a mental condition and it's also an attention getter.
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Let’s see...eight years old...that would have put this kid in Kindergarten about the time Mr. Garrison was re-hired.
Where are the parents in this? Do they not see how much they are screwing up their son's life? My older daughter went through a phase where she wanted to BE a horse. We smiled and let her work through it, not demand that everyone treat her as one. Kids go through phases and the best thing a parent can do is let them enjoy their fantasy but keep them in real life
So as a teacher, when I have this type of kid, is he a he? or a her? or a shem? What about when he wears pants? Is he a boy or a girl that day?
Geez parents let their kids have too much control over their world.
I think you are right , it is a metal condition & an attention getter. I am all out goodness & tolerance toward these crazy things anymore too. If they want to have their own school they pay for, fine. However I don't feel its fair to normal children to have James be Jamie all of a sudden. Why do these issues have to be pushed on to children that are trying to lead normal lives?
I don’t understand what the child’s parents are thinking. If you feel your child is in so much ‘emotional pain’ that they need to change their gender, don’t force the kid’s friends/school to deal with the issues this brings up. Home school the child for a while, while you get any ‘legalities’ worked out, and then move/enroll them in a completely new school with their new name/gender from the beginning. Seem’s like it would be ‘safer’ for the child that way...
That’s exactly right.
And I feel sorry for the people afflicted with such illnesses which are vey real by the way...because they won’t get the help they truly need.
I guarantee, if the kid were involved heavily in a Christain church family he/she would have a better chance at normalcy!
And I’m talking about a Christ centered celebrate recovery type program.
Pretty sad ! I have an 8 year old boy myself and we sometimes talk. He was asking questions on how boys and girls are different. I did not even go into the details on the difference of “plumbing” but I asked him on how he would like to play with dolls and his replay is “sick, yuck” and I then mentioned that he answered his own question. He likes cars, playing shoot’em up video games, motorcycles but dislikes female items !
I cant help it..
This school district is Wheiwi Wong..
The mission statement from the “transkids purple rainbow foundation”:
TKPRF is committed to the premise that Gender Identity Disorder is something a child can’t control and it is society that needs to change, not them.
TKPRF will strive to encourage families to allow their children the ability to grow-up free of gender roles.
TKPRF is committed to enhancing the future lives of TransKids by educating schools, peers, places of worship, the medical community, government bodies, and society in general, in an effort to seek fair and equal treatment of all transyouth.
TKPRF is committed to supporting TransKids in their school systems so they may receive equal rights in order to ensure a safe and bully free education.
TKPRF is committed to funding research to study the current plight and challenges of the transchild. There are currently no formal studies, books or data that can help guide parents when making decisions for treatment. Families are often met by resistance and healthcare professionals that give them incorrect, and at times, detrimental medical advice. There is an urgent need for curriculum changes in universities and medical school to meet the needs of all transgender individuals.
TKPRF plans to reach out to the homeless youth and those that have no where else to turn. Funds for healthcare, surgery and scholarships can be made available to transyouth in need.
TKPRF is aware that sex and gender are seen and used interchangeable in legal arenas. These two entities are very separate and need to be divided. It is time for the politicians to listen and for the medical professionals to speak up. It is time for the young voices of TransKids to be heard.
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Not usually. Not unless people make it an issue.
The more they push, the more *cases* they will discover.
This is wong!
This crap scares me even more then the homo indoctrination (yes yes I know its related). I really home my wife and I will be able to home school..
This is one smart kid. Learned early it’s better to be part of a protected class. If he was really smart he would’ve said he wants to be a black girl.
Oh yeah, /sarc
This is way wong!
Not going to happen. The other kids know he's a boy already. Kids, in their wonderfully concrete thinking patterns, are not going to buy this. They're just going to think the adults are crazy and this kid, too.
I guess that’s better than thinking he is a salamander. That may be next week.
But seriously, where are the parents in this? No real parent would put up with this nonsense.
I think you have your rines clossed.
TransYouth Family Advocates,....
Who makes this stuff up?
Rines still clossed.
That’s what I was thinking. I don’t see 8 year olds thinking this up on their own.
I'm betting that "heather" has two mommies.
Oh PUKE!!!!!!
This is the problem. We need to stand up for our beliefs and morals and values and be able to say when we believe things are wrong.
What kind of parents does this child have? I am wondering if this child has a traditional heterosexual couple as parents.
I can call myself a Chinese redhead. It doesn’t make it so.
I think you have your rines clossed.
entirely prossible....
"She has a birth defect, and we call it that. I can't think of a worse birth defect, as a woman to have, than to have a penis," Riley's mother, Stephanie, told Barbara Walters. "She talks about the day she'll have a baby. That's not in her future. But she sees herself as growing up to be a woman."
That's far worse than "Oh PUKE!!!!!!" Stephanie should be flogged.
It's simple, it's the domino effect, if one person is miserable then EVERYONE has to be miserable, I live in MA, we've had gay marriage forced down our throats and we also have some cities that are safe havens for ILLEGALS,,,,,,driving through some of these cities is like driving through a foreign country, but, I digress,,,,in schools if one child has an allergy to peanuts or perfume or whatever then the whole school suffers. In this case one child is mentally ill, the parents are enablers, therefore, EVERYONE suffers.
This kid’s parents need to shove him out the front door to play butcher ball with the neighborhood kids, get his butt kicked and then get up and give it back to them. He needs to get his testosterone and other androgens cranking.
I thought the same thing. Then I got to thinking what kind of parent would even think to contact a group called "TransYouth Family Advocates?" Gut feelings tell me that 'junior' might have two mommies.
Of course it would, if they were really concerned about the child.
But since that's not what they're doing, the kid is obviously being used to further who know who's homosexual agenda. Clearly nobody has the kid's best interest at heart.
Yep - my thoughts exactly. of course, if that’s true, then the media certainly can’t let it get out. It would only prove us intolerant moralists right.
Why do these issues have to be pushed on to children that are trying to lead normal lives?
I believe it’s called....TransYouth Family Advocates
ARIZONA MAN WANTS TO BE TRANS-PARTY
PHOENIX (APUPIReuters) - An Arizona man, has petitioned the GOP to legally switch parties.
John McCain, 72, has asked for such an unusual request.
“My friends, I have been trans-partied for the past few years. I feel it is time to fit in to my true liberal identity”
No word yet from GOP officials, who have just annointed McCain as their 2008 Presidential nominee.
If he was really smart he would’ve said he wants to be a black gay girl. There, I fixed it for you!
I have 20 year old nephew whose mother treated him more like a girl from infancy, girl toys (dolls, toy kitchen) etc. Father mostly absent. And guess what he turned gay!
I would have explained that God made girls and boys to think differently because girls grow up to be mommies and boys grow up to be daddies. They need to be able to think differently to be a better mommy or daddy. It helps prepare them for being an adult when they do different jobs as parents.
Prosecutor: "Show us on the clown doll where the evil TKPRF person "reached out" and touched you".
I did agree the purple rainbow freaks about one thing, but not in the manner THEY would like:
TKPRF is aware that sex and gender are seen and used interchangeable in legal arenas. These two entities are very separate and need to be divided.
They are correct in that "gender" is a property ascribed to words and property, "sex" is a property ascribed to living things.
The Oh PUKE was to the other link in post 11, but just happened to appear below this other post, which I thought could appropriately go there, too.
Well ... black is a problem.
But it seems to me that most of these dudes who get their johnsons chopped off end up claiming to be lesbians.
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