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renaissancedme -> RE: Girl Scout troops disband over admittance of transgender child (12/24/2011 12:37:54 PM)
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Okay ... that is not a transgender child. Transgender is where you were one gender and then became another. He is still a boy. And, I think his mother should be arrested. Not for allowing him the freedom to choose, but, for trying to force the issue. He is 7 years old. It's not like he needs to be having sex, and it's not like little girls don't wear pants, so, until he is at least a teenager, preferably a full and legal adult, there should be no major concerns over gender issues. And, there wouldn't be, if his mother was not specifically signing him up for a girls activity.
Obviously, Girl Scouts are for GIRLS. Not for boys who may or may not decide to be girls later in life, but, for a very specific sex of person, which sex has been discriminated against and forced into roles of sexual objects since the dawn of time and still is, in all countries, throughout the world, including, in many, to the point of not even being regarded as human.
It is to allow girls a place to freely express themselves, to learn, to empower themselves, and being forced to have a boy around because his nutcase mother can't tell what sex he is on the outside, is just wronging the girls.
If the boy thinks he is a girl, maybe it is because he has a girl brain or mostly girl internal organs. That is not a "feeling" had by the "mother" but, is something that can be found out through testing. Until that is done and it is proven that he is hermaphroditic, this is simply a case of a woman who wants a daughter and is warping her son's mind and making him hate his own gender, just to get her way.
And, I still believe that is true, that the mother is in the wrong, if he is later proven to be hermaphroditic. Because, it is not a mother's job to assign gender to a child. He is obviously at a very malleable age and she is the authority figure in his life, If he wants to play with dolls, great. If he wants to play with tractors, great. It means nothing, until he is old enough to know his own mind, rather than to be forced to accept what his mother wants.
This is an especially sensitive subject for me because my daughter has a friend who is a hermaphrodite, and his parents made an arbitrary decision, when he was too young to give them any input, that he would be a boy. And, in this case, they did actually have two different sets of genitalia to go by and everything, yet, they still made the wrong choice. He was forced to grow up as a boy and his life was miserable, because he was constantly forced to do "boy" things and dress in boy clothes, hang out with other boys, and take hormones to make him look and smell like a boy.
Now, he is a very sad young man, who wants to be a woman, but, because of all the hormones and surgery they performed on him as a child, he would be a very ugly, hairy woman, incapable of giving birth.
There is no call for forcing your ideas on gender roles on children to that extent. If you aren't sure, that's why they make t-shirts, turtlenecks, corduroys and lots of other unisex clothing, haircuts, etc. Let the child experience life a little and they'll figure out, based on their feelings, and medical examination, what they are!
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