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Posted on 02/20/2012 5:23:47 AM PST by reaganaut1
CHICAGO—A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.
It's an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.
An 8-year-old second-grader in Los Angeles is a typical patient. Born a girl, the child announced at 18 months, "I a boy" and has stuck with that belief. The family was shocked but now refers to the child as a boy and is watching for the first signs of puberty to begin treatment, his mother told The Associated Press.
Pediatricians need to know these kids exist and deserve treatment, said Dr. Norman Spack, author of one of three reports published Monday and director of one of the nation's first gender identity medical clinics, at Children's Hospital Boston.
"If you open the doors, these are the kids who come. They're out there. They're in your practices," Spack said in an interview.
Switching gender roles and occasionally pretending to be the opposite sex is common in young children. But these kids are different. They feel certain they were born with the wrong bodies.
Some are labeled with "gender identity disorder," a psychiatric diagnosis. But Spack is among doctors who think that's a misnomer. Emerging research suggests they may have brain differences more similar to the opposite sex.
Spack said by some estimates, 1 in 10,000 children have the condition.
Offering sex-changing treatment to kids younger than 18 raises ethical concerns, and their parents' motives need to be closely examined, said Dr. Margaret Moon, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' bioethics committee. She was not involved in any of the reports.
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It’s shocking that psychologists will gleefully help children make this change... but pretend certain behaviors are unchangeable.
I’m thinking of having an ethnic identity disorder. Maybe self-identify as a Native American. It will need some plastic surgery to get me feeling really good about myself.
Not much difference between your average pedo and these so-called adults/parents.
Self iidentify as an a Aliut. There are great government contracting set-asides fou Aliuts.
Libs just keep getting more and more sick don’t they. I mean what is this? Do they all meet in some back room and say “What can we do next that is really really effed up?” Kids can’t eat potato chips at lunch, hey but cutting off their wang is OK.
Do they all meet in some back room
I think it’s a cave and it has an altar to satan.
I think you are correct...
There’s probably a few kids who will turn out for the better because of this.
But some of the children are simply confused, and to treat them with hormones is pure abuse.
The risks are far too high.
As long as we’re forcing people play along with fantasies: I am a justice of the SCOTUS trapped in a plain old lawyer’s body. I am about to issue an order related to the HHS mandate...can’t wait to see everyone play along with my pretense.
See also Ward Churchill.
Scratching you off the sane-sensible-freeper list.
lol.
So apparently along with American history, Government, Economics, English, Spelling and Math...they have dropped BIOLOGY from the curriculum.
haven’t heard one single case of a child self mutilating in all my years as a parent..........cutting like on their arms yes
Somewhere in Hell, Dr. Mengele is laughing his ass off.
Somewhere in Hell, Dr. Mengele is laughing his ass off.
I want to vomit.
Little boys at the age put on mommy’s shoes and say “I mommy”, they are just playing.
Little girls put on daddy’s glasses and say “I daddy”, they are just playing.
The parents are sick, twisted and probably leftest just wanting to be ever so cool and understandingly tolerant.
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