welcome
Posted on 08/03/2014 7:52:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As a child, Lindsay Leigh Bentley desperately wanted to be a boy. She refused to wear dresses and adored going hunting with her dad. She loved sticks, guns, motorcycles and monsters. She chopped the hair off her Barbies. Her parents had to cut her own hair short because she refused to let them brush it. Her best friends were boys. In childhood pictures, she looks fierce, and tough as nails.
These days, her worried parents would probably hustle her off to the nearest gender-identity clinic. But Lindsay grew up in a more backward age, when such things did not exist. So she had to struggle on as best she could. Her parents let her be herself. Today she is a (strikingly feminine) wife and mother who still loves hunting and football. “Had my parents decided, at age 5, that I was a boy, I can not imagine the confusion that I would have experienced during my teen years,” she writes on her blog.
Ms. Bentley decided to tell her story after Ryland Whittington, age 6, became a child celebrity this spring. Ryland, too, was desperate to be a boy. After consulting a therapist, Ryland’s parents cut her hair, began to call her “he,” and informed their friends and family that their daughter was now their son. They made a video showing Ryland’s transformation into a little man in a suit. It went viral.
“There are huge benefits of doing this earlier in life,” gender therapist Darlene Tando told ABC News, which publicized Ryland’s story on Good Morning America. “It’s really just like they have been given this gift that everyone around them starts seeing them for who they are.”
The Whittingtons were widely applauded for their total acceptance of their transgender son.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
the stupidity of rats, especially on the internet, has ceased to amaze me. Its par for your corpse of the nation these days
Very good posts, thanks.
Bigot. Ok, now you call me a racist transhomophobe.
These people who are encouraging children in perversion are evil. Nobody is born in the wrong body. The notion is absurd.
He had nothing to lose!
At bottom, the refusal to acknowledge a fact of nature as certain as the law of gravity: that men and women are different.
There is no “frontier”. There are only tactics being used again.
welcome
Reminds me of a book “I’m OK, You’re OK”...
I was instructed to read it by my boss and didn’t like either one, my boss or the book.
"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish?
Nothing else."~Epictetus
God bless this site, this Free Republic.
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“Margaret, learn something about a topic before you start writing. You’re confusing “sex” and “gender” throughout the article. I realize that people use the terms interchangeably but sex and gender are not the same thing (and neither necessarily corresponds with sexual orientation). Sex is biological (i.e., what “plumbing” someone is born with) whereas gender is a cultural thing. Sexual orientation is an entirely different matter again. “
So their point is that you are born with having homosexuality, but femininity and masculinity and probably heteorsexuality are learned traits.
The person who wrote that daft remark thinks that they are sophisticated - and indeed, those theories are taught at Universities. And yet - if biological sexual identity is such a minor thing, and non-specific to gender - then why all the agitation for transexual surgery and operations?
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