Posted on 05/11/2008 4:06:45 AM PDT by Man50D
A Pennsylvania elementary school has angered parents by giving them one-day's notice of planned counseling sessions with 100 third-grade students to explain that one of their male classmates would soon begin wearing girls' clothing and taking a female name and to ask that they accept him as a girl and not make unkind remarks.
The exercise in "social transition" was initiated by the boy's parents who approached the administration at Chatham Park Elementary School in Haverford Township asking that the school help in having their child's female identity find acceptance among his peers. After consulting experts on transgender children, the Haverford School District sent letters to parents advising them the school guidance counselor would meet with their children, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer.
While some parents contacted the principal asking that their children be excused, others took their anger out online.
"Why is the school introducing this subject to 8- and 9-year-olds?" wrote an angry parent who started a discussion on the Haverford Township's blog site. "Why were we not notified sooner. We received the letter today, the discussion at school is tomorrow."
The Haverford Township blog is not currently viewable.
In the letter to parents, Chatham Park principal Daniel Marsella assured parents the counseling would use "developmentally appropriate language" to explain "how we need to help this student make a social transition in school."
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What exactly is girl’s clothes for a third grader? Until my daughters got bras, they dressed little differently than their male counterparts at school. Of course they do wear dresses to church. I can’t say they ever wore a dress to school unless it was for pictures.
How the heck does a 3rd grader have any sort of gender identity. Gender identity comes with sexual maturity. Are they planning on having the kid go through hormone therapy and surgery at his age? The parents must really be loony tunes.
I am so going to home school. She’s only 6 months old now but I don’t want these freaking people robbing her of a childhood so young. OMG. I remember being that age, and that would have freaked me out if the adults acted like they encouraged it.
I bet this kid still gets beat up for it. Despite the “appropriate” counseling.
I'm uncertain what the girls reactions will be, but the boys? Good luck with that.
“The boy” needs to be removed from that household and “the boy’s parents” need to be sterilized.
Excuse me? Just WTF is Gender Idenity anyway? Until we STOP excepting these looneyass toons stupid assbackward premises don't even talk about GI at any age!!
Hemorphidite perhaps, but that's where is ends!
ASAP... then replace the principal so this type of nonsense doesn't reoccur.
thank you...
What a bunch of caca.
Chopping off body parts and attaching new parts with stitches does not change a person’s sex (not gender).
Absolutely wrong; you can see a difference even in boy and girl babies (heck, you can see it in kittens). And the kids themselves certainly see a difference, which is why boys play with boys and girls with girls.
I doubt many here will agree, but as far as this 'experiment' goes, I say "try it." It may do some harm but it may also do some good and it's worth knowing what happens. I realize it's an unspeakably moderate position, but let's leave the "right's right and wrong's wrong and we know what the difference is" to the Liberals.
Catholic schools are good. And you don’t have to be “catholic” to attend...
The poor boy is being manipulated by well meaning parents. Leaving well enough alone is the best medicine. The trauma of feeling “different” in ones own skin is common place and as old as the hills. Making a big deal out of it is the crime.
They’re all of them insane and living is some warped Disneyland on Jupiter.
They are not robbing the children of their childhood except in matters of sex (which is pretty appalling). They are actually prolonging childhood right up to time to draw Social Security.
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