From what I read in another article, the blame is being put at the feet of the Christian parents instead of where it truly belongs, at the feet of the LGBT crowd who perpetuate the lie of being born in the wrong body.
Sounds like he had some mental "issues".
Everytime I read about this type of thing, I believe that it’s the meds.
Tractor-trailer’s kill! Ban all tractor-trailers now!
“I’ll punish my parents....and commit suicide”. Hope they’re testing for drugs. I’ll bet his system was loaded.
Sorry kid, your death is less than a blip on the radar screens of the people you wanted to hear you.
Of course those who celebrate perversity will use your poor choice for their own ends.
In the end, you wasted your life.
A better idea is people need to stop taking themselves so damn seriously. There are things more important than yourself.
It’s time to pull your kids out of government run schools, people. That’s where they’re learning this stuff.
I put the first comment on the CNN article.
I’m sorry, Ashley, but “she” was a he, down to every cell in his body. Even amputating his male parts would not change that fact. I’m very sorry that CNN has gone down the political-correctness rabbit hole. What’s next? If a mentally ill person named Smith thinks he is Napoleon, will you refer to Smith as Napoleon?
Kids are not mentally stable, generally, until the teens are over, anyway. On top of that, you add the instigations of those who prey on the minds and souls of children and you have a recipe for disaster. If I could go back in time, I would erase the person that invented cell phones....:/ I lost control over my kid for a few years but, if you can keep them alive and not too far over the edge, eventually, they come around to normalcy.
He felt like he was really a girl because......science.
Rush is right.
The constant drumbeat from the Left is driving people insane.
Literally, as this story illustrates.
Self-absorbed bastard didn’t give a damn about what his sick suicidal act would do to the truck driver, who will have to live with having killed the stupid fairy.
A few thoughts.
Lets enter this through the correct steps.
1) It is a behavior, not who you are.
2) Is this behavior a good one for the individual and society?
3) What causes the behavior?
4) now what do we do? based on the above?
But the intent of the article is to validate the behavior without discussing the above points.
I suspect this was an imprinted behavior REINFORCED by other juveniles, not adults. Do some research on imprinting.
The advice from counselors was good, turn God to change. Was it followed? I don’t know but it is hard to change. But the advice is still good. Most change requires a Higher Power, bigger picture, recognizing it is behavior not who I am, and the WANT TO CHANGE.
The imprinting from our youth is hard to overcome, and if done right it is a good thing but not if it is perverted.
He would have made one butt ugly girl.
Transgenderism is a mental disorder. Mentally ill people need professional treatment to deal with their disorders. They do not need to be respected and given allowances to permit them acting out their disorders.
Just like a schizophrenic needs professional help and not given rights to act out his schizophrenia because he truly is a schizophrenic inside and we need to let him be schizophrenic and embrace his schizophrenic identity.
Mental illness is sad. It’s even sadder when liberals celebrate and encourage that mental illness. I was born male, with brown hair and green eyes, and that is all genetic - wishing won’t change any of those facts. Even pretending that my eyes are not green will not change their color - they are green, it’s just a fact. Even mutilating my genitals would not change my sex - I’m male, it’s just a fact.
This poor guy was told repeatedly that if he just pretended hard enough and others played make believe with him, he could become a girl. Telling that lie to a mentally ill kid is child abuse.
It is nice to see some movement on a subject that has been mired in 1950’s psychology. It is interesting that a such a “disease” that requires such drastic mutilation, has not been researched using post-millennial tools and techniques. When someone is “diagnosed” as transgender where are the CAT scans, MRIs, blood work, DNA work and other diagnostic techniques that would search for biological causation? None.
Where are the psychological diagnostic instruments that would confirm or deny? None.
Where are the trials of antipsychotics, antianxiety agents and psychotherapy to test the contents of the patient’s beliefs? None.
Where is the research about diagnostic decisions trees that include biological paradigms? None.
Instead we are told that the patient makes the diagnosis. Because they have felt like the opposite sex from their DNA since they can remember. Not accounting for the fact that in delusional processes, the past is incorporated in the delusions i.e.: when I treat the secretary who thinks she is the Queen of England, although her delusional onset may be recent (within a matter of months or days, at times) her delusions will include memories of being a child-queen, for acute delusional processes are often seamless.
Parents who arrive at schools and clinics with children dressed and raised as their DNA opposites are hailed as brave instead of studied as classic cases of Munchhausen by Proxy where parents seek attention by making up and believing the child is different, ill or diseased and providing symptoms and evidence to back the parent’s need.
McHugh is doing a service by raising these important issues in a world blinded by political correctness that engenders fear
Mental disorders like this that are dubiously forced to be accepted and encouraged as a good, are still in truth a mental disorder...no amount of public support changes that fact.
Mental disorders like this, many times lead to suicide.
There is a mental disorder that makes you want to cut off your arms or legs; as the subject doesn’t feel that they should be a part of him.
Transgenderism is no less extreme.