Posted on 09/03/2012 5:16:44 AM PDT by billorites
On the volleyball court, a boy spiked a shot and his teammates cheered. Nearby, some campers lay on mats, doing yoga stretches. A girl executed a series of cartwheels. Over in drama, the kids performed a “cranky old lady” talk show; everyone cracked up.
Before the week was over, there were campfires, Capture the Flag, a skit night, and a talent show. Camp Aranu’tiq seemed like a traditional New England camp, complete with requisite lake, rustic cabins, and 65 shrieking campers.
Only when you see tags around campers’ necks, with the words “(HE)” or “(SHE)” under their names, do you realize something’s different here. It is the only camp of its kind in the country, a camp for transgender kids, where idle chatter on sports, music, school, and teenage crushes blends right in with talk about “coming out,” “transitioning,” puberty blockers — and bullying.
For privacy and safety reasons, Camp Aranu’tiq has never allowed media inside, but recently let a Globe reporter and photographer spend a day at its wooded Connecticut grounds during its weeklong session in late August. Campers, parents, and staff are required to sign a confidentiality contract, and the exact location is not revealed until the child is enrolled. “They know it’s a safety issue,” said founder and director Nick Teich. Related Photos Camp for transgender kids builds trust
Aranu’tiq, he said, strives to remove the fear and isolation that transgender children experience back home. According to a 2007 study by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, 90 percent of transgender youth report being verbally harassed and more than half physically harassed. Two-thirds of them say they felt unsafe in school. Many have changed schools. Some just upped and moved, to a new city or new state.
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Isn’t it just a wonderful world? sigh!
Just encouraging this behavior for minors is doing them harm beyond what they’re doing to themselves.
it is ironic that the people who tout for others to accept them, and their lifestyle, as they are (LGBT), are encouraging kids not to accept themselves as they are, but to change themselves to what they want to be...
confusing?
yes. but definitely not healthy.
Accepted but it robs them of their true desire: To be an attention whore.
They talked about baseball..... pitchers.....catchers.... and made signs for around their necks. Satan, their camp leader, taught classes on every type of perverted sex you could imagine. How lucky these kids are to have a camp of their own.
As Arlo Guthrie once said at Woodstock:
“Lotta Freaks!...man.”
Actual labels. I thought labeling children was against the rules for liberals.
A culture that embraces decadence cannot prosper.
Those that suffer mental illness rarely feel accepted.
Unfortunately for these children due to PC and diversity nonsense we no longer acknowledge that they have a mental illness and there for they do not receive the treatment that could might restore them to a normal life and less suicide......
There are some sick Sons of bi7ch’s in this world.
Some 8 year old boy says he wants to be a girl and these insane people get out the knife and are ready to go cutting.
there s no such thing as ‘transgender’, this is a mental illness... in this case the parents
in Kalipornia the lesbian parents put an 8-year old boy on sex-change therapy drugs.
how is that legal??
Absolutely my first thought as well. Labels. So creepy.
“Lotta Freaks!...man.”
And as Arlo Guthrie once said in Alice's Restaurant:
...And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them....
I guess they wanted a girl.
It’s a crazed world we live in today when queers can adopt kids they cannot breed.
They should be arrested for child abuse, but no one has the gnads to fight them.
Wow—can’t wait until they can one day be bi-transgendered. That way one can be both male and female at the same time. Such a wonderful thing,,,,,);
I suspect many cases of “transgendered” kids actually result from the parents’ desires. Someone who has a boy but desperately wanted a girl would be very likely to encourage “feminine” behaviors. E.g., “Look, my boy is interested in cooking—must be his strong desire to be a girl coming to the surface!”
From the article:
>Damien Gabriel, like some of the others, had been on hormone blockers to keep the estrogen at bay and last year started taking testosterone. Two months ago, he had chest surgery to remove breast tissue; he also had a hysterectomy, “which really hurt.”<
If Damien were a ‘he’, than ‘he’ could not possibly have undergone a hysterectomy.
Note to Boston Globe ~ get a proofreader!
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