Posted on 12/27/2016 6:07:32 PM PST by Coleus
A 13-year-old transgender boy from Woodcliff Lake described feeling isolated as he watched friends do something as simple as going to the bathroom at school, while he used a restroom in the nurse’s office.
Other North Jersey teenagers said they wondered whether they were alone before they researched what it means to be transgender. A 7-year-old girl expressed questions about her gender identity, and her parents are helping her find out whether she is a boy or a girl. And an 11-year-old boy who has been bullied drew a self-portrait as half boy and half girl.
“This is how I feel,” he wrote on the picture.
They are at the heart of the debate that’s raging nationally and locally over laws and educational policies related to transgender people. Last week, the Pascack Valley Regional High School District joined at least a dozen other North Jersey districts by adopting a policy allowing students to use restrooms based on gender identity. North Carolina recently enacted a law that does just the opposite, requiring people to use bathrooms based on the gender on their birth certificate.
The debate over these policies and laws has been emotional. Some people opposed to Pascack Valley’s policy expressed concerns about privacy rights for students who were not transgender. Some transgender students and their families framed the discussion as being about civil rights. One parent said it was about “fundamentally accepting our children for who they are.”
To help put a face on the people most affected by the debate, The Record interviewed a young adult and, with the permission and participation of their parents, five young people who are either transgender or questioning their true gender identity.
Their stories are not all the same, although there are similarities,
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Mentally ill is now the norm
Transgenderism is a figment of the imagination limited almost exclusively to affluent, nay, decadent Western societies where masculinity and femininity have both been under constant assault along with the headlong rush to eliminate religion, especially as an expression of morality.
Well said.
agreed. weird kids conformed, today it’s the mentally ill who run the place
It is one thing to be mentally ill. It is quite another to demand that everyone else participate in your insanity.
You know, when I was a fetus I remember thinking...am I a boy or a girl. It plagued me during the entire pregnancy. I DESPERATELY tried to come up with pronouns that might describe me. Then when I was born I looked down and I saw I had a winkie! Problem solved!
imagine your kids saying they are not what they are. You would tell them to get a grip. Instead we have lunatics raising kids and letting mental illness be okay .
>> Instead we have lunatics raising kids and letting mental illness be okay .
Precisely.
Hear, hear.
There are two things going on here.
1. The very real environmental disruptor messing with our children’s sexual and identity behavior. We need to find it and prevent these problems. What is it? Plastics (found in every young woman’s womb)? Neurotoxic pesticides? Vaccines (of child or mother)?
2. Children already here, beloved children who actually feel this way. How do we handle it? My opinion is that society and doctors are so primitive, wanting each person to fit “how they feel,” neatly into a gender or a “new title.” Chop and hormone them into the other gender. The paradigm is too primitive.
I believe we should label each person the gender they were born. And allow a wide range of behaviors for all children. All children can’t help how they were born. Let the boys wear the princess dresses OR play with the trucks OR whatever they want, same for girls. Instead of coaching these kids that they were “born the wrong gender,” just tell them, honestly, that they have a difference (a birth defect, which they can understand when older) that mixes up one’s identity, and that these feelings will stay for their whole life. Sadly, these kids have to live with a girl’s body while they feel like a boy. But they can choose their own behavior.
No more surgeries and hormones. ACCEPT THESE CHILDREN AS THEY ARE. Let them be the way they are and help them be proud of themselves the way you would with a kid with autism or Down syndrome.
“It is NOT possible to describe how many people have shunned me for being conservative for 30+ years. Tell me all about it.”
I wonder if it would be as obnoxious if they weren’t so self-righteous about their own wonderful tolerance.
This stems from the fact that most parents want to be friends with their children and the parents try so very hard to be best best friends. So the stupidity that starts with being friends ends with facilitating this crazy behavior.
I USED to think that way also, UNTIL I read MATTHEW!!!! Jesus’s OWN WORDS!!!
I would have loved to have special access to the nurse’s bathroom when I was in junior high.
These kids don’t need affirmation. They need help.
What the hell is the matter with these parents?
THey may have kids who are mentally ill, which is sad, but telling a girl iwth a vagina that she is a boy and changing her birth certificate? That’s nuts.
“A 7-year-old girl expressed questions about her gender identity, and her parents are helping her find out whether she is a boy or a girl.”
This nutty stuff has to stop.
Isolated?
well he just needs to accept truth and stop trying to pretend he is something he is not.
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