TEEN People Mag: Born with the wrong body - Transgender teens... (MEGA-BARF ALERT)

Teen People Magazine | June / July 2003 | Stephanie Booth

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Didn't s/he/it sue someone in the last couple of years? I think if that's the same person I've seen a different pic of the person sans stylist and makeup and it's a different look. The pic you linked shows someone that might be hard to tell. The pic I saw was of a screaming icky ugly person and you could definitely "tell".

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Hippie parents and a single mom...hmmm.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

My thoughts exactly.

[NYer]

In February, I arranged a rebirthing ceremony - sort of a "christening" for my new identity - in our campus chapel. The chaplain presided and 25 people, including professors, showed up.

No statistics are provided by the magazine regarding transgendered teens. They must have shopped long and hard to come up with these two examples.

One thing is certain, the Gov't education system, a/k/a the public school system is systematically indoctrinating your children into the GLBT lifestyle as "normal". To that end, they have allowed GLSEN to sponsor a "student" lead event at thousands of schools across the US, including religious schools! Last year, Governor Gray Davis of California issued an official proclamation making April 10, 2002 the National Day of Silence.

So what is the Day of Silence?

The Day of Silence institutes a visible silence, a silence during which participants protest anti-LGBT discrimination and abuse. Such an effort also allows us to reflect upon how powerful silencing can be, to focus on how we can make our own voices stronger and to begin to stop silencing ourselves.

The fact that one of the teens in the above story had "his/her" outing event in a chapel truly stretches the lengths to which these individuals will go to be accepted as normal.

This trend is a downward spiral to full societal degeneration. I don't recall any other period in history, short of the Roman Empire, when these forms of behavior were accepted and blessed. If you have children in middle, junior or high school, check the Day of Silence web site to determine whether or not your school is already participating. Contact your school administrators and demand that it be terminated or than an alternative program be offered on the same day. Only you can stop this!

Days of Silence

[Freedom4US]

The people who publish this sort of thing are truly sick. Just because we have "the right" to print anything we like, does not mean we should. They are truly evil.

[Freedom4US]

Hopefully, this article will help someone else who is struggling with the same issues.

Nonsense. That type of stuff only serves to "legitimize" deviancy and mental illness. It should be shunned like the plague.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Yes, schools are definitely brainwashing kids into the GLBT lifestyle. The SF school district has been doing this for years.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

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[hellinahandcart]

I say let them do what they want.

Okaaaaaaaay...let's see, this poor girl is so fixated on her idea that she's really a boy that, when she got her period at thirteen, she wanted to kill herself.

Would you have allowed her to do that? After all, she wanted to do it very badly.

Why, then, would you allow her to sink even deeper into a hatred of her SELF that requires mutilation and serious drug therapy to assuage?

Depressed people very often take their rage out on their own bodies. Wouldn't it have been better for the parents to take her to a shrink that would help her accept herself for what she really is-- a young female human with a vagina, uterus, breasts, and a woman's brain as well? Instead, they all decide to enter her fantasy world.

I'm frankly horrified. This girl could have been me.

[Screaming_Gerbil]

Not the same one.

Lynn Conway is a well-adjusted person who is an electronics / computer scientist and a college professor.

The transsexuals who go through their "sex change" at an earlier age are generally happier and more well adjusted than the ones who transition later in life.

The transsexual who is running for the major of Lansing is the one you are likely thinking of. That person had his, I mean her, sex change at 40-something years old, and still looks like a guy in a dress - due to body build and facial structure. This person apparently has a lot of anger due to society's rejection, and has dedicated the remainder of "her" life to being a "Transgender Activist".

Someone who transitions earlier in life can just go on and build a career doing something useful.

Bottom line - If someone's that sure they are a TS (Transsexual) at that early of an age, then I think it's best to let them "transition". Better that than to have others have to deal with the fallout if they decide to "transition" to the opposite sex once they're married and have a job.

[savagesusie]

The indoctination has been going on for the last decade at least...Heather has two Mommies brought it down to the kidergarteners. All MTV does is indoctrinate not only into the homosexual lifestyle---into a very sexually promiscuous one.....The media has been making teenagers (and younger) into voyeurs where sex is meaningless....and an activity for "groups" of people to partake in.....It makes marriage meaningless since sex is supposed to be a "special" "intimate" act. The media is now working to make NAMBLA normal.

[sushiman]

Hey , if I were a woman I'd be a lesbian , too ! ( hehehe )

[Anarchist]

This is probably not a behavioral issue. Instead, it is a birth-defect issue. A child can be born with physical deformities such as webbed feet or a cleft palate. There can also be mental deformities such as Down's Syndrome.

Surely all of us would be compassionate to those children with such problems. Unless, of course, the birth defect involves sexuality, then some people just freak out.

When I was younger I mocked people with gender problems. I scorned them. Until an old man advised me to say to myself when I was tempted make fun of such people or to condemn them: "There, but for the Grace of God, go I."

I'm an old man now, and now I know the wisdom of that advice.

[hellinahandcart]

I was one of those girls that developed way early, and naturally recess was an absolute horror for me. I was literally tortured by boys on the playground. So at age eleven I sure didn't like BOYS. And after years of fleeing from hordes of little boys trying to grab my boobs, I wasn't too fond of my breasts either, and if someone had offered to make me flat-chested back then I would have jumped at the chance.

I was also very attached to the one or two friends I did have, who were female. I simply adored them. Of course, those feelings were not to be confused with SEXUAL feelings (they certainly weren't, as I learned later through having real sexual feelings). Now they try to tell you that "warm close feelings" for someone of the same sex could mean you're really gay or lesbian. And "feeling different from everybody else". Hell, I may have been an extreme example, but there's not an adolescent out there that doesn't feel like a freak inside, no matter what they look like outside.

Thank goodness I didn't have "enlightened" parents who'd send me to a lesbian support group full of adults, simply because boys made me cry and I hated my body.

[MHGinTN]

Samantha will even be able to have a pregnancy, given the new technologies. Is this better living through 'chemistry'?

[andysandmikesmom]

I think what you say here, about birth-defects, is important......there are, everyday, children born, and the doctors are unsure as to what gender they actually are...because at birth its not clear....and as the child growns over months, its still not clear...often the doctors will tell the parents that it is in the best interest of the child to assign it a gender and stick with it....

The doctors will usually tell the parents what they believe would be the best for a particular child...depending on the birth deformities...there have been a few documentaries done about these children, tho not many, I must admit...

Some of these children grew up, and altho they were assigned a gender while still very young, and had corrective surgeries to complete that assignment, the child, once grown felt that he/she was the wrong gender..some have even had corrective surgery to become the other gender...

I am not sure how often this happens, but it does happen...trying to believe that it does not happen, is just burying ones head in the sand...

I dont buy into this line about God not making mistakes, and that all babies are born perfect...good grief, not every baby is born perfect...many are born with all sorts of birth defects, some minor, some major and life threatening...

I am not taking any side one way or another...just pointing out, that sometimes babies are indeed born so badly deformed that even the doctors dont know if to say, :"Its a a boy", or "Its a a girl"...

[Coleus]

mega barf alert alright. What does hubby say about this? Seems these kids lack some self worth and the problem seems to be a lack of proper guidance, counseling and no formal traditional religion. Seems you never see this sort of stuff in Muslim, Orthodox Jewish and Amish communities where living their respective orthodox religion is the vanguard of their daily lives.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Good point H. Most girls today get emotionally attached to each other (ie BEST friends). It starts when they're young and ends later (when they get married or sooner when they are in the workforce).

Girls even fight over friendships with other girls and get jealous, etc. Our culture tries to teach them that these are "lesbian" feelings when in fact they are a normal part of being a girl.

Other girls that in the past were Tomboys and grew out of it are again told by the media/teachers/school/mtb that they are also Lesbians or Transgenders.

In the past it was thought that these girls would "grow out of it" and most did.

Personally if I had a kid that was gender confused I would contact NARTH and get them gender UN-confused immediately.

[Dan from Michigan]

This just ain't right. Whatever people do is their one business, but leave the kids alone.

On Lansing TV, there's one "it" who is running for Lansing mayor. By law, it has to have it's former name as well as current name, since all people that change their name within 5 years have to have both names listed.

There's even TV commericals with this "it". Looks like a drag queen. Talks like one too. I wonder how many votes it'll get.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Depends on how many Democrats there are in Lansing...