Report: Sex-Change Treatments on the Rise Among Children & Teens
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CHICAGO (The Blaze/AP) — A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.
It’s an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.
An 8-year-old second-grader in Los Angeles is a typical patient. Born a girl, the child announced at 18 months, “I a boy” and has stuck with that belief. The family was shocked but now refers to the child as a boy and is watching for the first signs of puberty to begin treatment, his mother told The Associated Press.
The Daily Mail reported about yet another example of this back in September:
The lesbian parents of an 11-year-old boy who is undergoing the process of becoming a girl last night defended the decision, claiming it was better for a child to have a sex change when young.
Thomas Lobel, who now calls himself Tammy, is undergoing controversial hormone blocking treatment in Berkeley, California to stop him going through puberty as a boy.
Tammy Lobel's parents allow the 11-year-old boy (whose birth name is Thomas) to use hormone blockers to delay puberty
Pediatricians need to know these kids exist and deserve treatment, said Dr. Norman Spack, author of one of three reports published Monday and director of one of the nation’s first gender identity medical clinics, at Children’s Hospital Boston.
“If you open the doors, these are the kids who come. They’re out there. They’re in your practices,” Spack said in an interview.
Dr. Norman Spack (AP)
Switching gender roles and occasionally pretending to be the opposite sex is common in young children. But these kids are different. They feel certain they were born with the wrong bodies.
Some are labeled with “gender identity disorder,” a psychiatric diagnosis. But Spack is among doctors who think that’s a misnomer. Emerging research suggests they may have brain differences more similar to the opposite sex.
Spack said by some estimates, 1 in 10,000 children have the condition.
Offering sex-changing treatment to kids younger than 18 raises ethical concerns, and their parents’ motives need to be closely examined, said Dr. Margaret Moon, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ bioethics committee. She was not involved in any of the reports.
Some kids may get a psychiatric diagnosis when they are just hugely uncomfortable with narrowly defined gender roles; or some may be gay and are coerced into treatment by parents more comfortable with a sex change than having a homosexual child, said Moon, who teaches at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
It’s harmful “to have an irreversible treatment too early,” Moon said.
Doctors who provide the treatment say withholding it would be more harmful.
Tammy Lobel's parents allow the 11-year-old boy to use hormone blockers to delay puberty
These children sometimes resort to self-mutilation to try to change their anatomy; the other two journal reports note that some face verbal and physical abuse and are prone to stress, depression and suicide attempts. Spack said those problems typically disappear in kids who’ve had treatment and are allowed to live as the opposite sex.
Guidelines from the Endocrine Society endorse transgender hormone treatment but say it should not be given before puberty begins. At that point, the guidelines recommend puberty-blocking drugs until age 16, then lifelong sex-changing hormones with monitoring for potential health risks. Mental health professionals should be involved in the process, the guidelines say. The group’s members are doctors who treat hormonal conditions.
Those guidelines, along with YouTube videos by sex-changing teens and other media attention, have helped raise awareness about treatment and led more families to seek help, Spack said.
His report details a fourfold increase in patients at the Boston hospital. His Gender Management Service clinic, which opened at the hospital in 2007, averages about 19 patients each year, compared with about four per year treated for gender issues at the hospital in the late 1990s.
The report details 97 girls and boys treated between 1998 and 2010; the youngest was 4 years old. Kids that young and their families get psychological counseling and are monitored until the first signs of puberty emerge, usually around age 11 or 12. Then children are given puberty-blocking drugs, in monthly $1,000 injections or implants imbedded in the arm.
In another Pediatrics report, a Texas doctor says he’s also provided sex-changing treatment to an increasing number of children; so has a clinic at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles where the 8-year-old is a patient.
The drugs used by the clinics are approved for delaying puberty in kids who start maturing too soon. The drugs‘ effects are reversible and Spack said they’ve caused no complications in his patients. The idea is to give these children time to mature emotionally and make sure they want to proceed with a permanent sex change. Only one of the 97 opted out of permanent treatment, Spack said.
Kids will more easily pass as the opposite gender, and require less drastic treatment later, if drug treatment starts early, Spack said. For example, boys switching to girls will develop breasts and girls transitioning to boys will be flat-chested if puberty is blocked and sex-hormones started soon enough, Spack said.
Sex hormones, especially in high doses when used long-term, can have serious side effects, including blood clots and cancer. Spack said he uses low, safer doses but that patients should be monitored.
Gender-reassignment surgery, which may include removing or creating penises, is only done by a handful of U.S. doctors, on patients aged at least 18, Spack said. His clinic has worked with local surgeons who’ve done breast removal surgery on girls at age 16, but that surgery can be relatively minor, or avoided, if puberty is halted in time, he said.
The mother of the Los Angeles 8-year-old says he’s eager to begin treatment.
When the child was told he could get shots to block breast development, “he was so excited,” the mother said.
He also knows he’ll eventually be taking testosterone shots for life but surgery right now is uncertain.
The child attends a public school where classmates don’t know he is biologically a girl. For that reason, his mother requested anonymity.
She said she explained about having a girl’s anatomy but he rejected that, refused to wear dresses, and has insisted on using a boy’s name since preschool.
The mother first thought it was a phase, then that her child might be a lesbian, and sought a therapist’s help to confirm her suspicion. That’s when she first heard the term “gender identity disorder” and learned it’s often not something kids outgrow.
A screen shot showing transgendered services at Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Accepting his identity has been difficult for both parents, the woman said. Private schools refused to enroll him as a boy, and the family’s pediatrician refused to go along with their request to treat him like a boy. They found a physician who would, Dr. Jo Olson, medical director of a transgender clinic at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Olson said the journal reports should help persuade more doctors to offer these kids sex-changing treatment or refer them to specialists who will.
“It would be so nice to move this out of the world of mental health, and into the medical world,” Olson said.
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huey6367
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:42amMy opinion, let a kid be a kid. When they become adults, they can choose to change genders should they want to. I am biased on this subject so that is the best middle of the road answer I can give.
Report Post »eric6161
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:11amIf a child is born with a ****** and xy chromosomes then I support treatment to complete her transformation into a boy. If the child is born with a penis and xx chromosomes… he too should get the treatment. Sex isn’t what you wear … duh.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:25amNaaah! What you have here is a prime example of the GODLESS liberal left, comprised of mainly limousine librals, trying to dictate removal of a GOD, they don’t believe in from the rest of society.
Be ready! GOD will not allow this and all the other abominations being practiced to go on much longer. The day of reckoning is coming and for those who practice these gross operations on small children, it will be really bad.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:28amOh how sick we are becoming as a nation. Read into these stories and discover the truth. The little boy (dressed as a girl) on the cover of the story is being raised by two man hating lesbians. So do you think it just coincidence that this poor kid has decided he is not actually a male? This is child torture and abuse. They have given him hormones that change his physical appearance.
So if your child came to you and told you that they were actually a dog born into a humans body, would you give rabbies shots, parov shots, put a collar around their neck and treat them for fleas.
Being the parent means you teach the child, to include dispelling crazy and stupid notions, you do not play along and help destroy a life.
This nation is self destructing before our eyes, and man are too stupid and blind to see it happening.
Report Post »SychinLegacy
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:30amThe odds of a child being born with and xy chromosome and not having male genetalia are EXTREMELY RARE. Like the chance of us being hit by an asteroid in the next 30 seconds kind of rare. The “Male Specific Region” on the Y chromosome can migrate off and would render the Y as just a smaller X, however like I said the chances for a sequence of genes to just migrate off of a piece of chromosome are virtually impossible.
The same goes true for the opposite. That same MSR would have to migrate to an X for it to essentially be a female with the male reproductive organs.
Genetics class was useful after all.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:05amUntil they can change you biologically, they are only doing a plumbing ‘re-route’. It’s a completely narcissistic and 99.999% electable.
Let’s not forget, “sex”, “IS” more than just male or female nomenclature. ‘Sex’ implies company, by definition, with only one exception, when followed by: ‘change.’
Typically, I appreciate the real model, more than ones that look “like real” or “feel like real”, but really, they aren’t. Its just my preference. It’s genetic. I was born that way.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:15amLESBIAN Parents of a BOY who now wants to be a girl? I don’t care what you say, it is not natural, it is not what GOD intends and GOD will have HIS way. ANYONE else out there realize the mess we’ve made of this? Christie had the right idea..pass a law that gives these “same sex” all the rights of Married people…but watch..THAT is not what THEY want. They want to feel “normal and accepted” by having Marriage. They are not normal. I would not like to be born gay, if in fact they are. I have always felt it was more an environmental, self-decision than medical. I could be wrong. But we haven’t seen anything of the chaos and messed up lives that we will now see with the Gays and Lesbians having children, raising children in a two gay or single gay home. Sorry, I might want to fly but that’s not how I was made. WE simply have to return to GOD. Satan has had a field day…a feast in America for the past 70 years or more…this is the result.
Report Post »grudgywoof
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:37amThis is why gay’s should not be allowed to adopt children. They have a biased world view that is damaging to the “normal” family (mother and father and that would be male and female) unit. Homosexuality is a sin and I am really beginning to resent them for turning it into a religion that corrupts the young and ruiens lives. Keep your sexuality to yourself and shut the pie hole I’m sick of you.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 12:15pmi am sure the increase in gender identity problems has nothing to do with the chemicals found in numerous products, which find there way into our water and food have nothing to do with this….
Report Post »“they were just born that way”
search “gender changing chemicals in environment” and look at the results… you will be unpleasantly surprised..
Fla Del
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 12:24pmI am a man. I like women (most of the time LOL). But, when I was a child I loved playing with paper dolls. I played jacks with the girls. A fun game.
Report Post »I also played war, cowboys, baseball and tops with the boys. Not one person said anything about me playing with the girls ( at least not to my face). I am not gay or ever even felt like I was made wrong.
Leave them alone and let the child grow up. Dumb ass parents.
Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 1:21pmWhy don’t all males look quintessentially male after millions of years of evolution? Ditto for females
Why Aren’t All People Beautiful?
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/why-aren2019t-you-beautiful
Add in Confusion theory that I read about in a psych text plus innumerate & scientific illiterate leftists voters and you get this train wreck where leftists totally ruin the lives of their children.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 1:23pm” In her study of eight generations of red deer in Scotland, she noticed a curious pattern: The most prolific male deer sired daughters that tended to have fewer offspring, while the worst male breeders (the deer equivalent of ugly) fathered females that had more offspring. This is evidence, Foerster says, of sexually antagonistic genes. The same gene that makes a buck sexually successful can leave his daughter behind”.
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/why-aren2019t-you-beautiful
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 1:49pmgrudgywoof
Report Post »This is why gay’s should not be allowed to adopt children.
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Some gays use adoption as a way to enforce their world view.
Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:16pm“Spack said by some estimates, 1 in 10,000 children have the condition.”
Is it a meme or a gene?
See Dawkin for definition of a meme.
If it is a meme over 120 (life span) years will the person be happier or sadder?
I say they will be sadder.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:33pm“Sex hormones, especially in high doses when used long-term, can have serious side effects, including blood clots and cancer. Spack said he uses low, safer doses but that patients should be monitored.”
Yes their body made a mistake they are the wrong sex. That is why artificial drugs so easily threaten their health.
Report Post »LauraPZ
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:35pmSex is what you do, gender is how you feel. They are not necessarily related. Luckily, it is rare they mis-match. Sexual-preference, is also different.
Report Post »And waiting until the person is 18, compounds the problem, because of irriversable changes @ puberty. Any respectable physician would require in-depth therapy for all involved, before allowing medical treatment of such a child. But- the drugs to delay pubertal onset, will allow the child to mature, before any non-reversible changes occur.
But- this is an area for a true specialist, not a family MD. The family MD can perform the treatments ($1,000/month???? WTF? How about $50, + office visit). The “hormone blocking” drugs involved, are not expensive. The surgeries required to correct secondary sex-characteristics, after puberty, can be devastating. By preventing these changes, the child can be spared much psychological suffering, and hundreds of thousands of dollares in surgeries- IF treatment is allowed early. Very few can afford it, in all probability- making them unhappy for life. Of course, there is a very high suicide rate amongst transgenders that do not get treatment. Would Jesus, want that?
Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:56pmLauraPZ
It is how you feel. So there is no gene responsible. So the obvious treatment is not socialization or counseling but drugs.
Drugs make so much more sense then counseling, LOL.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 3:48pm@RangerP
“This nation is self destructing before our eyes, and man are too stupid and blind to see it happening.”
I know you meant “man” as in “mankind” but I think one of our greatest problems is clearly “womankind.” When manly men were the head of households in our history, this poop wouldn’t fly. Ann Coulter has said in the past that women gaining the right to vote can be viewed as the turning point at which this country began to nosedive. I agree. And before anyone calls me a sexist pig, like Ann but unlike the poor boy in this story, I am *actually* female.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 3:56pm@Walkabout
I read your Discover link about red deer. It is an interesting observation, but in my opinion does not answer the question “Why aren’t all people beautiful?” in the slightest. The reason is that how do we know that all people aren’t beautiful? More specifically, “beauty” is relative. Just ask the population of a prison. Different ideas of beauty reign in different cultures across different times, but as for symmetry of the face, who is to say that faces as a whole are not more symmetrical now than they were 4,000 years ago? Maybe all people *are* beautiful, or at least more beautiful than their ancestors.
Find any group of young attractive girls and if you get them to be honest they will reveal who they think is the “fat one” or the “ugly one.” They might all be 10′s to you, but within their circle they rank each other and themselves much differently because beauty is relative.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 4:17pmBonnieBlueFlag
You missed the whole corollary to what the biologist was trying to prove.
Some boy is a born with genes such that he is small for his age, not as strong or some other genes that make him not manly (Like the deer that sire poor male offspring but good female offspring) according to the culture and/or nature. So they reason that if I can’t compete male, am not valued as a male, I’ll switch.
I have literally seen this with a guy who struck out with women several times. He became depressed & decided to try to see if he was gay. He was a young man in his late teens or early 20s.
You don’t think that grade schoolers have the same problems? There isn’t already pecking orders being established? Of course there is. If you have 2 people you have economics. If you have 3 people you have politics. Throw in LGBT pressure & you have a disaster.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:32pmThe Global Elite have introduced foods that cause this. Some people are more sensitive to Estrogen promoting foods than others. Soy protein is one of the biggest culprits.
Do your research.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:34pm*Addendum
The global elite promote abortion, homosexuality and produce foods that cause hormone chaos.
Report Post »This is to curb the World’s Population.
LauraPZ
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:57pm@Walkabout- I NEWVER said a “gene” was responsible. It is almost certainly due to pre-natal hormone influence on the brain. Something that cannot be altered, afterward. So- should someone be forced to be miserable/depressed/suicidal, for the rest of their lives, b/c YOU do not understand the nuances of Human Physiology?
Report Post »Heck- I’ve studied it 45 years, and I don’t “understand” it- but I’ll wager a metric tonne of Ag, I know more about it, than you. Especially since I have dealt with it in a close friend- and she has confided things to me, she didn’t even tell her (probably useless) shrink, err psychiatrist.
So, yes- treatment with pharmaceuticals, just MAY save a life- or at least make a child much more comfortable. And prevent many years of pain, in a helpless child. Causing a child unnecessary pain, is poor parenting, as well as WRONG.
do_it_all_again
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 5:29pmIf GOD does not judge this despicable country, and soon, he will have to apologize to Sodom & Gomorrah, and as far as i can tell GOD has nothing apologize for !
Report Post »Brittany-Imbriaarts
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:40amI have to say to allot of those here passing judgement on this get a freaking life and live it. Until you have to go through a issue like this in life you don’t understand. The article is a well written piece dealing with a issue that has been discovered to arise in children starting at the age of 5 to 7. This is not a issue of GOD and I say that as a strong christian that has read and understood the bible. Jesus did not speak against Transgender people. So stop claiming its a sinful act. As someone who has lived with this issue and struggled with this issue the depression builds as you age, the more you become someone you can‘t stand and can’t live with, the deep you fall in the depression looking for any way out. And its words like the people on here that grant themselves holier then thou to claim the bible which Says “Love THY NEIGHBOR” can constantly cast judgement at a whim. Why not educate yourselves on subjects other then reading your own views on something first. When I hear how many people cast Republicans as bible thumping haters its causes the words of people many here that cast their judgement here and later act on the words they spew here. Trangeder people stand in this country as the most abused, Largest group of Unemployed and most likely to be attacked in a act of hate As proven in recent studies. Don’t like what a transgender person is doing then IGNORE THEM. Unlike the flamboyant GLB the trans-community wants only to live their lives, so let them live
Report Post »Brittany-Imbriaarts
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:41amAnd that is from a Bible thumping Tea Party Transgirl.
Report Post »Mrs.M
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:59amAlthough I respect what you have written I think you are off on one point. It is about God. Always has been always will be. Now, you say this is a struggle you have had. I get it. You say Jesus said not to judge. I get that also. I am not judging you or your pain. Never. But what this report is about is parents not looking to the source of creation for answers but instead is taking on God’s role and trying to “fix” something that is not broken in God’s eyes. Who are we to say that these kids are not being damaged by intervening with drugs at a young age? I hear pain in your writing, but please do not reject God from this issue!
Report Post »moodtd01
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:09amWhere did you read in the Bible where Jesus said it was ok to be the opposite of what you are? Which transgender person did he “heal” and make the right sex? Maybe the problem is that you have swallowed the worlds’ psycho babble for too long and have not focused on what God wants. How do you know that so called “LGBT” people are not just “sexless”? People who Paul would consider perfect for the ministry of the Gospel to the world. People who would not need to satisfy their lust in the flesh and therefore have families causing them to have to focus on their earthly family taking them away from their eternal Christian family. This is one of the main problems with this whole line of thinking, you are either gay or straight. If you don’t like the opposite sex then you must be gay. If you have some feelings like you are of the opposite sex, well then you must be of the opposite sex. Not that perhaps God made you a perfectly balanced person, right in the middle, basically sexless in order to serve God and serve others more fully. NO! IMPOSSIBLE! Instead Satan twists your thinking and the thinking of much of the world into believing a lie rather than accepting the truth of God. Read 1 Corinthians chapter 7.
Report Post »I have said all of these things in love. Love does not always feel good but can feel hurtful when holding one accountable for their thoughts, words, and deeds. Try reading the Bible for the Truth.
SANTORUM 2012! Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Brittany-Imbriaarts
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:19amMOODTD01
you mean this part that I looked into in my own research
1 Corinthians 6:9 Effeminate and Fornicators?
9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Those that seek to have sex with others of the same sex are sinners.
Fornicators is to have sex with anyone your not married to, Looks like Paul was after people of the oldest profession here (hey wasn’t Mary Magdalene a prostitute. So he didn’t mind that she was with him in the J.C. days). Effeminate? Well he had issue with anybody with a female look aka long hair. (Hmmm every picture I see of Jesus is with long hair odd)
Nope don’t see your argument here but I do see a double standard people ignore.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:20amWe are to love our neighbors but we are not to congratulate them for sinful behavior.
Report Post »BarbieLee
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:29amThank you. Now may I make a suggestion? Softly does it. When possible smack them with a pillow instead of poking them in the eye with a stick. Lead them to understanding instead of herding them. There are times to pull thy blade with vengeance. Forums are seldom the place. It turns people off not on. The only ones you attract are the bigots who have such a slim hold on their own gender they can’t stand ambiguity and doubt. Amazingly bikers and true rednecks, the ones who have no doubt they are a man or a woman, have no problems accepting transsexuals.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:34amBrittany-Imbriaarts
in reference to your so called picture of Jesus.
The only accurate picture of Jesus you will ever get, is to read the gospels.
Looking at some European artists thoughts of what they believed Jesus to look like, and painted hundreds and hundreds of years after his resurection are not realistic. Jesus did not have blonde hair and blue eyse. He was a Jewish man, thus he would most likely have olive skin, dark course hair, and dark eyes.
Report Post »hi
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:41amWe are all struggle with sin but we do not condone sin just because we give up trying..In your argument people should just be drunks bc they struggle with it.They should just keep gambling because they struggle with it. They should just have sex outside of marriage bc it is too hard to control their urges. In other words , sin should be accepted because we can’t help it.
Report Post »This article is about doing irreversible damage to a kid. We don’tlove and tolerate child molestation just bc the molester struggles with it,just as we don’t tolerate injecting a boy with female hormones just because he is effiminant.
If one reads the Bible daily and prays , he or she should be able to overcome addictions. God can do anything ! It is very difficult not to sin. Thank Jesus for taking away sin and Grace.
Brittany-Imbriaarts
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:42amYes and no beard and long hair looking more like what many artists when they draw from that time a angel or young male. As a artist I have seen the early drawings of Christ in my History studies. Often he is seen with sheep and only identifier they offer to that image is the Greek words displaying his name in graffiti on several early catacombs
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:48amThe child in this story is a first rate example of why GAY adoptions should even be allowed. who know what child might have become without a gay enviroment. It’s another liberal hypocracy blacks are products of their enviroment.Liberals use that excuse over and over THUS ENVIROMENT is label the creator of black crime,racial additudes,and lower educational abilities. But to suggest that a gay enviroment would create more gays is ludicris……
Report Post »As far has this study goes if the same child in question would be charged as an adult for a crime…I say get the government out of the way. However if the child is considered a juvenile in the eyes of the law then I say no.And any parent that would allow this should be charged with child abuse,lose the ability to ever raise another child and be require to register as a sex offender.
moodtd01
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:49am9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous[b] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,[c] 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Cor. 6:9-11
Report Post »The word “effeminate” used in the King James was meant as homosexuality. Not someone who had long hair. In fact, at this time in this area most men wore their hair short as was the Roman custom. This does not mean that Jesus would be effeminate if he had long hair. In fact, we do not know how he wore his hair. (I personally believe he had long hair as to better seperate himself from the other Jews of the time who mostly wore their hair in the Roman fashion in order to fit in with the worldly system.) Jesus was big on being different than the worldly ways which at this time accepted among other things homosexuality.
As for Mary Magdalene being a prostitute, there is no conclusive evidence that she was however, if she were a prostitute who had changed her ways and accepted Christ as her teacher and repented following the ways of God then there is no reason she should not have been a follower of Christ.
SANTORUM 2012! Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Brittany-Imbriaarts
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:51amNo HI I am saying people in this country (as of right now) Have a choice and will face that choice in their own and on their own. The parents in this article are choosing to let a child make this decision. Its not one simply goes to a doctor and gets treatment. The average time it takes to get the treatment this article talks about takes 3 years of Physiological study of the subject before the child can go through with this. It takes less time for many with serious Mental Disorders that do harm to ones body or even others such as Alcoholism, drug addiction, Pedophilia and so forth. Sadly too many articles ignore that a child going through this in order to properly receive treatment as it stands in the US has to jump through so many hoops that the doctors are sure there is no doubt of this decisions.
Report Post »william1
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:54amWhat a nut you are. You are saying GOD made a mistake. It is schools, media, entertainment saying, “hey, if you don’t like the fact that you are a guy, change it. GOD didn’t know what he was doing, HE obviously made a mistake. I only need to site one example, Chasity, oops, Chaz Bono. It is liberals, like yourself, who proclaim to be Christians, that are helping to destroy our country. You just go along to get along. I’ll bet you think that they are other ways to get to heaven other than through JESUS CHRIST. I am sure you are okay with lying, stealing adultery, fornication, blasphemy, idolatry, and homosexuality. All of this is sin, and the Bible/JESUS said to repent and sin no more. I am as sinful as they come, but I am trying to repent and stop doing anything that separates me from my savior-JESUS CHRIST.
Report Post »moodtd01
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:02amIf you really believe that God looks at long hair as homosexual or effeminate then you have not read the story of Samson, Joshua, Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, John the Baptist, etc… Have you really “read” the Bible? Or have you just picked through and found parts you like in order to argue? Once again, not passing judgement ( which does not mean you cannot rebuke another person or encourage them with the truth), I am simply trying to have an honest conversation.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:05ameffeminate most defintely speaks to “transgender” behavior – refers to dressing as woman or the reverse. Also, Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute – she was a woman posessed by demons – her acceptance as a prostitute is an “urban” legend whereby several woman mentioned in the Bible have been “morphed” into a single character -
Report Post »tzion
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:10amOkay, so you say we shouldn’t judge them? But isn’t it judging them to say they were born with the wrong body? How is that not judging? If the body is just a vessel for the soul, how can one’s body be wrong? If gender isn’t defined by physiology that means it based on something insubstantial that people defined (therefore judging people who don’t fit their model as “wrong” or “mistakes”). If you want to argue that sex and gender aren’t linked, then why should one change change their sex to “match” their gender? Either they’re connected (boys are always boys) or they are completely unrelated (being a boy has nothing to do with one’s self-image). Your trying to argue that one‘s identity is separate from sex but then say it’s okay to change sex to match the identity that is separate anyways.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:16amThere’s nothing “wrong” with a boy whose “feminine” since much of what we call feminine is a stereotype anyways. Changing ones external appearance to match societal “norms” isn’t brave. Brave is saying “this is who I am and it has nothing to do with sex or gender”. Seriously what’s wrong with that?
Report Post »mecanic
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:27amone word-ABOMINATION. look it up. learn what you are.
Report Post »Brittany-Imbriaarts
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:30amMy is a person has a choice, if you don‘t like that choice then don’t judge, If you say that God is stating in making a person like myself. Its a mental judgement and a sin then it is also a sin in the same context of a person to receive correction surgery for any reason, women to wear make up to look better all of these are actions to make the person feel better about their lives and bodies, But its GOD’s will that they look that way before hand. So you let them defy GOD’s will here, you determine what is a sin based on what you break apart in the bible and ignore other parts to make yourself feel not like a sinner. God grants man trials in their lives to learn to be a better person. I have read the bible, I am a christian I know what the word of GOD is and I do not pass judgement. Call me what you want. I have stated my OPINION yet under stand I will not stand still and except stones being cast at me or others like me by sinners that hide behind their sense of the bible. Many here (mainly above) I suggest you seriously STUDY the bible and not just read it. LEARN its lessons. Then look on the world without casting judgement. And before you call me a Liberal, this is not a political issue, its a personal one, I stand with many Republicans even though many don‘t stand with my issues I believe our government is out of control but I don’t want to see a Theocracy, I stand for a child’s right to live, I believe in the freedoms of all in this country and that includes Transg
Report Post »MatthewChapter24
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:53am@ Brittany
You said:”As someone who has lived with this issue and struggled with this issue the depression builds as you age, the more you become someone you can‘t stand and can’t live with, the deep you fall in the depression looking for any way out. ”
(((hugs))) Where did that pain come from? Weren’t you told as a child that you are “fearfully and wonderfully made”? (Psalm 139) Didn’t you have people around you affirming who you were when you were born? Were you not lovingly filled with God’s Word and Truth? Had you been filled with God’s truth, you would not have despised yourself. You may have undergone physical alterations, but only the LORD can change your heart. And I would guess that your heart is still in great pain even now.
Report Post »william1
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:57amBrittany, I will say it again. I can’t say whether you have the read Bible or not, but what I can say is I am deeply offended by you accusations. What you are saying is that my LORD and SAVIOR has made a mistake. HE made you a woman but you know better, you really should be a man or vice versa. My GOD doesn’t make mistakes. There is two things I know to be inherently true. If I truly believe in the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, I know HE doesn‘t lie and HE doesn’t make mistakes. Homosexuals now say they were born this way. What they are saying is that GOD made them that way and HE is condemning them to hell unless they repent and change their lifestyles. I don’t believe a loving merciful GOD would ever do such a thing! Research this and see if I am right. Homosexuality was considered a mental illness until the APA determined it should not be categorized as a mental illness in 1973. It is a mental illness. GOD would not do this to a people HE loved so that much that HE gave HIS only son for our sins.
Report Post »Brittany-Imbriaarts
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 12:04pmNo no where did I claim GOD made a mistake, you ASSUME I said that. God has plans for all his plan in my view was for me to go down a journey and trail HE GAVE ME. I don‘t see my birth sex as a mistake I see it as a trail in my life to face and with it learn of GOD’s choices in my life. This is where many make the mistake, they claim that a person altering their body in the way I do is a statement GOD made a mistake. I don’t believe he make mistakes. He grants trails on all to find their own way to him. Be it dealing with a serious handicap, drug problem, or being a normal person.
Report Post »pantokrator
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 12:19pmIt’s an immoral and selfish act. You‘re basically spitting in God’s design and saying, “No! I want it to be like THIS!” Being a Christian means giving up yourself. You no longer live to please yourself, nor anyone else. You live for God, and Him alone. Accept what He made you to be. As someone here pointed out, I’m not judging people, but condemning their sin.
Report Post »Brittany-Imbriaarts
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 12:35pmSo a person that losses a limb should just deal with it, Cause it was God’s Design to remove it. A woman should never wear makeup cause its God’s design she look that way. You look at a body and claim its God‘s Ultimate design as it comes but you don’t look at what is truly God’s Design the picture in whole. If you live with the idea that a body is designed by god as that way then why not protest the two options I give above, why choose the sin where you draw the line. Ether everything is GOD‘s design or only man is GOD’s design.
Report Post »LauraPZ
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:02pmNicely stated!
Report Post »Though I’m no “bible-thumper”, I am a true “christian”, and try not to pass judgement. That is not my job.
I would take a close look at the 18 month-old being raised by a lesbian couple, though. That is a bit young, perhaps. And while the one Les couple I know have several healthy boys, that are VERY much boys, they are not “man-haters”, either.
All children should have both sex-roles to draw from. Not necessarily from both parents, just family. My own Father, was not a good male role model- but my Grandfather was near-perfect.
Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:07pmBrittany-Imbriaarts
“The parents in this article are choosing to let a child make this decision”
Uhmmmm, right! The child can recall all the conversations that he has had with his lesbian mothers?
If we read those & read this of other kids, would we conclude that the lesbians did not push him that way?
Report Post »Brittany-Imbriaarts
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:23pmWhen is it in your mind we can make decisions for ourselves, I know many a children that easy can speak their own opinions at any age but more so by their school age. We use all of our interactions to gather from in our development. Now if this Lesbian couple was showing they force the child into these beliefs its wrong and I am in full agreement. But like I stated before any case of a person that seeks medical treatment is thoroughly looked at for years by a professional therapist. While there is ways to seek treatment illegally its not nearly as easy as going around town to find normal illegal substances. Thus its strongly medically controlled and the average physiological study is around 3 years before treatment is given permission. So if this was a decision raised into the child it most likely will be spotted long before medical treatment. While I can’t say all people going through it are right on their mind the same can be said with any procedure, Misjudgments can be made, but that is for the person making the decision to make not any outside source. One has to make the decision and live with it. I can state its very important the person not matter how old really thinks through the risks, physically and socially that going through with transitioning does. Because going back is far harder when work begins then going back.
Report Post »LauraPZ
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:47pmI find it interesting, that Brittany is one of the VERY few, who has the, umm, “guts” to post her name, AND picture. She is not hiding behind some facade.
Report Post »Many here could learn something from her- especially since she has actually gone-thru this situation. Having a very close friend who also did, I know something of the psychological pain involved. If early treatment can help. I approve.
“Trust me, I’m a Doctor”. And a surgeon- although not a gender-reassignment surgeon. That is a true specialty. Since most of us go into medicine, to HELP people, I imagine that specialty, is quite satisfying.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But without knowlege, opinions are like anal orifices- everyone’s got one, but not all are equal. Some are quite ugly- as demonstrated by remarks on this article. And they have the nerve, to “speak for Christ”, yet. The hypocracy, stuns me.
DamocleAurelius
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 3:01pmWell for starters, “effeminate” and “abusers of themselves with mankind” are translated from Greek “gutter” words that basically translate better to “bottom” and “top” respectively. Since Paul was writing letters in response to specific problems in specific areas, we can’t be sure why he felt the need to specify both (tho I suspect perhaps there might have been a prevalent heresy that perhaps being one or the other was not sinful).
Bible thumping aside, I’m not sure the Bible speaks real clearly on the issue (after all it isn’t like you could change your sex, tho castration was common in those times with eunuchs), other than in Matthew 19:11-12 (some who are born eunuchs), however, these verses neither condemn nor condone being a eunuch, other than to say “it is better for them not to marry.“ The overall tone there seems to be that being ”born” transgender (or being born in a condition that seemingly can only be resolved by a transgender operation), is an undesirable condition, similar to any congenital defect or abnormality. That being said, I think what should be taken from this is that “transgenders” will never be able to live a “normal” life due to their condition. We should understand that and have compassion on them, while understanding and accepting that abnormality of the condition.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 3:04pmBrittany
I don’t want to burst your bubble but there are no pictures of Christ. All pictures are man-made after the fact.
Report Post »Brittany-Imbriaarts
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 4:06pmDismay, Early renditions of Christ that I describe are of the same time period of as Paul writing two of the books of the New Testament which is around 30 – 60 years after the death of Christ. They picture a very different image of what we see today, but yes all off the images are after the fact unless scientist find one done in his time, the version we see used today is Leonardo De Vinci’s version. But the ones found in catacombs show a dark haired curly young man with olive skin no beard.
Report Post »1gr8mom
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 4:20pmThis issue knows no political persuasion. These families are not wacko liberals. I know a family that has delt with the pain of watching their child cry every night because he/she knew they were outwordly the wrong sex. I see the same child live as the gender they should have been born with drug treatment and is now developing into an normal healthy young person. Please stop with the insulting and quick judgements. If you have not lived or seen it, you do not have a right to your harsh opinions.
Report Post »Vicky in Cincy
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 4:24pmBrittany, you have stated your position and your opininio very well. I too, know of the pain you speak of as I am a sister in that same journey.
To those who claim that we think God made a mistake I tell you that I believe God makes NO mistakes. He creates with a purpose. He has made us who we are and what we make of ourselves is our gift back to Him. As Brittany said, it is the path, the journey, that we walk upon to improve ourselves, to make us into the men and women we are and can become. This is not a step into homosexuality, there is more to it than “if you are not straight, then you are gay.” A high majority of the transgender live quiet lives, not putting ourselves into the spotlight. We are God loving men and women. We have either conservative or liberal leanings. We love our families and our friends like others do. What we have is a condition that we seek to fix. From the age of 4 I knew I was different than other boys. When I was 9 or 10 I prayed every night and day for God to either make me a girl or to remove these thoughts and inclinations from me. when I was 53 I finally discerned God’s answer to my prayer. He had answered it long ago it took me 42+ years to discover His answer. To the gentleman who said that even after our treatment that we are still unhappy I can tell you that I have never been happier. I live my life in joy. I volunteer my time and services at church and help those in need. I do my best to live the Gospel and when I must, I use words.
Report Post »WiseFox
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 4:25pmBrittany, If you need to be someone else than you are, most people I know would say, ok, but don’t get in my face about it. Do what you want by yourself or with someone who is like you. But you guys have to flaunt it, and act like someone is making you perverted. But perferting little boys and girls! What in the hell is really your problem? You want everyone to act like a mental case. You probably blame your condition on your parents, but if you really think about it is people like you and to quack doctors, who try to anylize to the point that they are the ones who need analyzing. Get your your life under control because life is too short. Stop screwing everyone elses life up. Whatever you need to do, go for it before it’s too late and it passes you by..
Vicky in Cincy
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 5:28pm@ wisefox
Who said that we are saying that someone “perverted us”. I do not recall Brittany saying this. Nor do TG’s get in peoples faces and demand whatever you think it is we want. We are not trying be be someone else. We TG’s are being ourselves and are doing everything medically possible to make our outsides match our insides.
You have no idea what amount of pain that we go through in our lives. First we learn that we are different in some way. Next we try to make ourselves fit into society’s norms of what we are supposed to be. Then comes the realization that we cannot live according to that model. Then comes the terrible period of what to do with ones self. Due to societal pressure to conform, family pressure and rejection or constant harrassment many attempt and commit suicide. This is a terrible waste of life and the gifts that God gave us all at birth. For those of us who survive this period we begin psychotherapy. Eventually we find ourselves and accept who we are. Some continue on to transition, some do not and stay in their birth gender. The “quack doctors” are not out to “make us screwed up” and change our physical gender nor are they recruiting “weirdos”. Those who continue on commence hormone therapy in addition to pschotherapy. When the time is right, & when two different doctors have concurring opinions based on observation, we have our surgery. We then continue to live our life because we won’t let it pass us by.
May peace and God’s lov
Report Post »Brittany-Imbriaarts
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 5:29pmActually Fox myself and most Transgender people don’t flaunt it and wave it in their face. Just the opposite is true. I myself only address the issue when its brought forward, with the exception of when I go to seek employment and inform the ones looking to hire me that this is who I am and if you think this will arise an issue in your company then please pass me over as I am not here to cause you issue. I actually speak against how many in the GLBT community do flaunt it, but at the same time you need to understand we all stand with equal rights, Even though myself and many like me are discriminated against to the point of being evicted, beaten, and even killed for who we are. And when it comes to equal treatment in the law far too often the Transgender people are treated poorly and at times even abused in current cases. I’m not asking for special treatments of my kind, I am asking for equal treatment. Something many people miss categorize and misjudge on both sides of the political spectrum. While I do not seek to flaunt, I do work hard to inform, so people can get the help and so hate filled actions don’t overrule solid judgement and decision making.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 5:49pmDamocleAurelius
Someone born like Jamie Lee Curtis who was XXY, is a difficult problem. If they chose either sex, that is up to them. Clearly there was a problem in cell division.
These other cases … show me a genetic cause. I think it is more feeling not measuring up, pressure from parents, & other social/psychological problems.
We are entering a “Brave New Word”. Let’s see how happy they are 70 years from now.
I have seen people who have lost children. The depths are unimaginable. Now we are going to have people who are childless, when there was no need for them to be so. Or it will take everything they got or other people’s money for medical intervention to have children. Oh year a definite improvement.
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:04pmHey…. they aren’t “trans” gendered until the doctors start playing with these ignorant children…. any more than you were before whatever in the hell you did. Pull your head out. These “lesbian” parents are hardly parents at all. And that doctor should loose his license and be put in jail for what he and any other doctor like him does to children prior to them being old enough to go and make a decision to do whatever it is that you’ve done to your body. You… BRITTANY…. are not the norm. Accept it…. I was born a guy, and am HAPPY to remain one for the rest of my days.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:09amsome wrote These families are not wacko liberals. I know a family that has delt with the pain of watching their child cry every night because he/she knew they were outwordly the wrong sex.
And when those children are of age and maturity to make their own decisions they can do what they feel is right.
Report Post »Kitkarr
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:50amBrittany – Those “pictures” of Jesus were painted during the Renaissance Period by mostly homosexuals who were pushing an agenda. They also painted Him white. He was neither long-haired (He didn’t take the vows that Samson did), nor white (no one in that part of the world ever was).
Believing that it is in our power to change what God has done is the height of pride, and the application of His Word to support that pride is the height of hypocricy. I would ask you to re-read your Bible and I would ask all of those hear to pray for you as you do.
Report Post »Kitkarr
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 12:27pmI should say this to be a little more clear, I realize you have already addressed the problems with the paintings. However, I wanted to make the “homosexual agenda” point because I think that there is an entire culture of people who have been victimized and don’t even realize it. Those out there who think things like “I’m in the wrong body“ or ”I’m not happy with the way I am made” have been sucked in by the hive mentality that plagues this country so hard.
They hurt so bad inside and then they look around and see all of this acceptance and tolerance of bodily mutilation and lustful behavior that it becomes less sensitive and more standard. The pain goes away, or atleast dulls for a bit. It is fancy and it is inviting, but it is wrong. That is not judgment of anyone, because it isn’t addressing the salvation of the individual. I’m not calling anyone a fool, but I am saying that sin is sin and it must be shunned.
A child born with a penis is a boy. A child born with a ****** is a girl. Certainly, feelings of sexuality will arise within all people at some point. Some sooner than others and parents may have to actually step up and parent a little bit regarding these feelings. It is very hard for a little boy to learn how to be a man from 2 mothers just as it is very hard for a little girl to learn how to be a woman with 2 dads. The traditional family is the safest environment for all.
How are to we love our neighbor as ourself, if we despise ourselves in our
Report Post »Kitkarr
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 12:30pm…Created form?
Btw – what‘s up Blaze can’t say the “v” word, but you can say penis?
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:37amsome seriously sick , twisted sheet …
Report Post »SoundStride
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:13amLeft Leaning Liberal Lesbians make great parents right?
Report Post »IvanK
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:32amKey phrase here… “The lesbian parents of an 11-year-old boy who is undergoing the process of becoming a girl “.
Report Post »Now doesn’t that in itself just about sum things up?
ilovejiggys
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:53amof course and they are related to Karl Marx
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 1:00pm. . . and any “doctor” who would participate in that is related to Joseph Mengele.
Report Post »usmc1063
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:08amLooks like what we have here is just another Nimrod moment trying to have equal footing to what God designed. For those of you that don’t understand Nimrod was the the great grandson of Noah a hunter warrior and King in ancient Israel. Who felt that he was equal to God and began to build the Tower of Babble to be on an equal plain with God and Heaven. Seems that these people are using the same play book. What strikes me funny is the fact that a lesbian couple who has a male child thinks that this child was born the wrong gender. Now that in itself makes me wonder whats wrong with this picture? But to the progressive liberal mind it is perfectly normal to want the sex of your child changed. Don‘t they get it the parents that have manipulated that childs mind that the organ dangling between his legs wasn’t supposed to be there. It’s not the child choice. Children are influenced by the actions of their parents not the other way around. But then again I’m just a poor dumb hic who understands and lives with the natrural order of things.
Report Post »samiam010203
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:06amOn the one hand, this story shows not only the life long traumatizing psychological issues that a child’s psyche is exposed to these days, but also the depravity and the indoctrination of the liberals who raise these children, as well as what has yet to completely manifest itself in society as the “new norm”.
On the other hand, as I am currently an undergrad, who will eventually go on to achieve a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), by the time I go into practice these kids will be at the age when all the emotional distress begins to manifest. So I can be sure I’ll make good money off of them based on what is happening now.
Another thing that the religious among us might want to take note of is when the article states “Switching gender roles and occasionally pretending to be the opposite sex is common in young children. But these kids are different. They feel certain they were born with the wrong bodies.”
This will be important in the near future as the left tries to get Americans to pay for these treatments with their tax $$. the fact that the medical community is largely atheist by nature, claiming no scientific evidence to prove the existence of god or the “soul”, and the fact that they back up abortions by stating the fetus has no “soul”, yet now to support their vile depravity they will claim that children know “They feel certain they were born with the wrong bodies.”
Report Post »moodtd01
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:33amOr when NAMBLA gets its wish and adults are allowed to have sexual relations with children as long as they consent. After all, kids are just small adults right? They know what they want. They have rights too! You can’t tell them to not have sex with adults, that is going against their 1st and 14th amendment rights! STOP BEING SO INTOLERANT, BIGOTED, and RACIST! I am going to call the police for your hate crimes against these poor kids. Then I am going to call the ACLU.
Report Post »Of course that is not how I feel. I was pretending to be one of the Godless heathens.
This problem was forseen by our founders. They told us that for our society to continue under the constitution and have freedom the people needed to remain a moral and religious people. I no longer see too many moral and religious people. Even many “christians” I know think they can do whatever they want, and others can do whatever they want, God will sort out the mess later. This gives them the excuse to be “saved” and continue to live however they want. So now we have a nation of people who believe in “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law”. This means anarchy, no morals, no principles.
SANTORUM 2012! Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
LauraPZ
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:24pm@Moo- I was just waiting for someone to start with the bestiality issue. Wow- you really just don’t GET IT, do you?
Report Post »Gender roles, are NOT equal to sexual preference. It is what is in the MIND, or soul. Recent studies of “Transgenders” (both sexes) have shown very real differences in the formation of the BRAIN. So, it is not a whim, it is a birth defect- one that can be treated medically, to allow the person to lead a normal, happy life.
I can never get the knee-jerk instinct of some to go to “marrying a horse”, when discussing same-sex marriage. Perhaps these people are just trying too hard? The subject makes them uncomfortable, no? Reminds me of a jerk I shared an office with, years ago in Grad school. Always putting-down gay’s. Until the night I went to our office late, to get a book I had left- and found him with a male undergrad…. He was less vocal, after that. :)
(Yes, this was many years ago, before the internet became what it is- we had BOOKS we used to read.) Who could have forseen DARPANET becoming what it is?
DontCompromiseMorals
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:46amSo sad
Report Post »Caniac Steve
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:55amagreed it’s harder today to just be a kid…than it was 50 years ago…and whose fault is that ??
Report Post »LauraPZ
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:59pm@Carniac steve- I’d say barry obama- but that might make it look like I’m biased. ;)
Report Post »Throughout all of recorded history- and “mythology” and folklore, there have been tales of transgendered individuals. Today, we have the medical/psychological technology to actually help them be happier. (Though, I don’t put much faith, in most psychologists. IMHO, most are bug-nuts crazy themselves).
“Gender Identity”, may be one of the first solid things a child has- and rarely changes. While I might suspect the 18 month-old being raised by lesbian parents as being more political than medical- I find that “suspicous”. By age 5 or so, a child KNOWS what they are, deep inside. With informed, understanding parents, and supportive family, it seems much pain and unnecessary surgery, could be avoided.
MiloArk
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:41amSo the kid gets to grow up as an ugly girl. Smart move, lez-bo’s.
Report Post »lgccac
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:41amThis is really sick. I asked myself what kind of doctor would do this. And then I thought, what kind of doctor would perform an abortion.
Report Post »kmbr
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:37amWe are a sick society. And getting sicker.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:20amWow, there is so much I would like to say, but can’t frame it coherently, so I will just say this makes me very sad.
Report Post »Susie
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:18amOMG – there is no hope. Recruitment has hit an all-time “low”.
Report Post »LauraPZ
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:14amWow- judging from the coments so-far, Ignorance (and intolerance), must truly be bliss.
Report Post »Such a bunch of loving, forgiving christians. Who know nothing, of what they speak- except their own prejudice. It reminds me of Democrats, passing gun-control legislation.
BTW- my best friend, started life as a boy. We met years later, after undergrad school. We were friends for years, before she confided her “deep, dark secret”. I never had any idea. She is now top of her field, and quite sucessful.
It still blows my mind, how people who claim to be so into “freedom and individuality”, are so against just that, when it steps on THEIR beliefs. So much pain, could be avoided in these children, if they got good treatment, before puberty made their “transition” so much harder. But- as long as they obey your “gods” wishes, that wouldn’t matter, right ?
hi
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:26amWhat is ignorant is thinking that a kid born a boy needs life long hormone treatments so he can be a girl.
I used to want to be a “Go Go” dancer when I was 5. I‘m glad my parents didn’t drive me quickly to the nearest quack doctor to get implants so I could pole dance at the nearest stip bar.
Report Post »Rodster
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:42amAnd this is what you get when you take God out of peoples lives. There aren’t any basic rules for human life, do as you please because you don’t have to answer to no one but yourself. Congratulations you’ve earned a screwed up society so expect this kind of stuff and more. Nothing shocks me anymore.
I’m waiting for the acceptance of human and animal marriages, that should be a doozy.
Report Post »moodtd01
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:07amI thought women and men were so much alike that there are barely any differences? “Emerging research suggests they may have brain differences more similar to the opposite sex.”
Report Post »“Who know nothing, of what they speak” Do you know when we are to have forgivness? At all times however, forgiving someone for the evil they do and allowing them to continue to do it are 2 seperate issues. As for intolerance, I would say that “us” Christians have been overtolerant for far too long, that is why things like this are now allowed in “our” society. Furthermore, we accept the fact that people have different beliefs and ways of doing things, if these lesbians want to live together and pretend to be a family, fine. The problem comes from them “abusing” “their” child. We do not have to “tolerate” anyone hurting another person especially a child. This is why most of “us” think abortion is wrong. We believe it is murdering a child yet, we have “tolerated” the practice for 40 years now. This means that we do not break down peoples’ doors, we do not beat them, or kill them. What we do is practice our 1st amendment right to FREE SPEECH and protest abortion clinics, or comment on stories that upset us on CONSERVATIVE sites. We also practice one of our main RESPONSIBILITIES as U.S. citizens and try to vote for people who will make sure the immoral practices in this land stop. Until they are illegal we will continue to “tolerate” them. SANTORUM 2012! Praise GOD and
kf4omc
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:18amTHese kids need help!!.. We are not ignorant. We just see it for what it really is. It is a mental disorder and they need help. But instead of help we enable them. Do you go ahead and give an alcoholic alcohol just because they crave it or do you get them educated on how to over come their thirst for alcohol. Do we say “Well there brain was made to crave alcohol so we should just let them be who they are?”. No we get them the mental help. These kids need mental help not enabling.
Report Post »Wayne
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:38amYou will regret making fun of GOD.
Report Post »BarbieLee
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:08amLife should be black and white, male and female with no blurring of the boundaries. Alas just as there is a false dawn before daybreak, as there is twilight before nightfall there are those who God gave a special blessing to. Is it so hard for those of you who have not experienced, to believe one may be born with the mind and feelings of a girl when the doctor proclaimed it a boy or visa versa? Obviously to most who have posted here it would be easier to murder (abort) these imperfect abominations before they contaminated the gene pool of the human race. Never ever has a transsexual wished there were more like them. We are doctors, lawyers, NASA engineers, James Bond girls, husbands, wives, the boy or girl next door. The movies portray us as psychotic killers and people believe it because they saw it in a move. Give it some thought. Which one of us weird and psychotic? Just as Lauapz has, many of you have met us and never knew it. That is all most of us want. A normal life the same as everyone else. The majority of us aren’t Bubba in a Skirt portrayed in the Tabloids
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LauraPZ
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 2:13pmFunny- when I was 5, I wanted to be a surgeon. I did, all my life. I am. So, I do know a bit about human development, with studying medicine for a few years.
Report Post »With this condition, it is about what happens to the child’s body @ puberty, that is in question here.
I am not advocating intervention in all cases- but in the very real, rare cases it is indicated in. It will make the life of the child much easier, in all probability.
Any physician who gets involved, should send both child and parents for extensive counciling, with a qualified specialist, before agreeing to any treatment.
So- perhaps your parents should have encouraged you to be a go-go dancer. Maybe you would be happier, now? Mine were always very supportive of my decision. I remember them telling me, “Sweetheart, you can be anything you set your mind to”. Luckily, I did not want to be a football player- or a man. ;)
BarbieLee
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:54amLauraPZ, thank you for your posts. As you can see we are fighting an uphill battle against ignorance and intolerance. Humans being human fear what they don’t know or understand. Lots of research has gone into dissecting the brains of trans, heterosexual, homosexual, gays and lesbians. M & F brains are physically different. M to F trans have a female brain, F to M have a male brain, gays have M and lesbians have F and heterosexual have the brain their body identifies with whether M or F.
We are the smallest minority with the highest suicide rate. One doesn’t have to guess why. With the hate directed our direction when one even suspects a person might be T along with little or no support from family or the medical field, many find it easier to “check out” than handle life. I have never met or talked to a T who wished to be trans. Not everyone knows something isn’t right by the time they are five or six but I did. I would have traded the rest of my life to live one year as a real girl by then.
Those who wish to pull out the bible and call us freaks, abominations, psychos, or a hundred other names that can’t be posted here, need to run into those like me. I‘m positive I haven’t heard it all but I have heard most of the low end names and remarks. I try to give hope and courage to those who have been mentally decimated because I am one of them. God gave us a special gift because He loves us so much.
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KTsayz
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:59amLesbian parents have a male child who wants to be a girl? Sounds to me the poor child was looking for a role model and couldn’t find a decent one in his house. Of course an 18th month old child with two ‘mommies’ would say it wants to be what its two ‘mommies’ are. It’s all the child knows! And who believes an 18 month old baby aside from when it says it needs to potty?
Report Post »This is absolutely disgusting. That poor child needs psych treatment quick, not hormonal-blocking drugs. And get him out of that house!
Gonzo
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:08amIf the kid had said he wanted to be a cowboy, do you think the the two mommies would have bought him a horse? Well heck no, that would be extravagant.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:58amThis sounds like something that Ba’al would come up with.
Report Post »moodtd01
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:16amLOL! This was the first sentence into my head. In fact, I have been pointing the “BAAL” in our society since that episode, my family is getting tired of hearing it. My son told me, “dad, no one cares about stupid Ba’al or however you say it”. I responded, “only God and myself and a few million others son, that is all.” He rolled his eyes, sighed, and continued to stare out the car window. He will get it in about 10 years or so. If the world makes it that long.
Report Post »BTW. I really appreciate the Blaze, GBTV, and all of the hardworking people who put out some truth every day. You are doing mostly good things.
I would also like to remind everyone that the only REAL TRUTH is found in God’s Word The Holy Bible, The only way for salvation and true peace is through JESUS CHRIST, and that the only way for us to live productive and fruitful lives is through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Remember, all have sinned and fallen short, we are all wicked in our flesh, if we did not have God we would be as bad or worse than most of these liberals that we look down on, in fact, many of us would be liberals.
Praise God and pass the ammo.
Chet Hempstead
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:24pmActually, the word Baal was used to refer to a number of local deities worshiped in various Hebrew cities, so the story of Baal being supplanted by Jehovah worship is really a story of strong central government crushing out states’ rights.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:55amThe PARENTS are DISGUSTING !
No parent who LOVES their child, and is in their right mind, would do this sort of emotional damage to their child.
What happened to the “hippocratic oath?“ ”Do no harm.” ?!?!?!
Maybe we need to change that to the HYPOCRITICAL OATH.
A “doctor” who ASSISTS parents in doing this to their innocent child.
Children are our responsiblity to raise well. We do not just let them do whatever they want.
We guide them, teach them, and instruct them.
Otherwise, we have a society filled with FERAL “HUMANS” – not that we are far from that today.
I’ll wager they do psychological testing on the children.
Report Post »I’d like to see them do psychological testing on the “parents”!!
I’d say the parents have deep-seated psychological and/or emotional issues.
ares338
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:54amYikes…..Holy crap Batman….it’s a boy!!!
Report Post »LoneRanger
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:48amOh No! Another endoresment of the “liberal left”. They want fat kids to be taken away from parents but endorse this behavior which is child abuse. These kids will all wind up on the psychologists couch some day.
Please share the following sites with your friends:
http://www.factsaboutyouth.com
http://www.libertyforchildren.com
http://www.preventhomosexuality.com
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Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:07amThese kids aren’t old enough to know what they really want. My guess is this is learned behavior. I find it disgusting and the parents should be ashamed of themselves. Get these parents the help that they need so they can begin teaching their children.
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:47amThis is the result of poor parenting, period! This is child abuse.
Report Post »muddpuddle
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 8:02amThis is the kind of crap you get when you allow two female nut jobs to call themselves parents…… They should be locked up and forced to watch Tom Selleck movies.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:46amIt can only get worse!
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:46amAnyone who even attempts to do this should be thrown in jail.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:45amI have an argument against this…Chaz Bono. nuff said.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:44amWhat a sick world….The Genie is out of the bottle, whats next? three men getting married to one woman and her pony? dont laugh I cant see these nut jobs beeing able stop poligamy now, they only have themselves to blame when rich white males have seven wives and keep them barefoot and pregnant.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 1:54pmWhen the polygamist drives to work, ambush them. There will be plenty of widows then.
Report Post »LauraPZ
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:49am@Walkabout- you really seem to have much repressed hate and violence inside you. Not to mention ignorance and the inability to read and understand plain English.
Report Post »I repeat- I am somewhat shocked and sadenned, by the intolerance and ignorance, shown here.
I would expect that from ********, not GB people.
Gonzo
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:44amYou can give your son drugs to change his sex but, if you spank him in a grocery store, the state might take them away because you’re an unfit parent.
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:22pmKind of amazing how it works isn’t it? I think one of my cats wants to start smoking, I can just tell by the way she meowed…… Here Kitty Kitty Kitty…. Daddy has a nice menthol cigarette all lit up for you.
I’m confused…. is this animal abuse? or am I just being “open minded” and hearing what my cats are try to tell me.
Can I get my cat’s sex changed too? Should be easy since she’s already had a hysterectomy right? I’ll just start giving here shots of testosterone. Yes…. she’s only a mere 6 or 7 years old. But in cat years that’s almost middle age, so I‘ll call the vet tomorrow to see if I can have my cat’s sex changed, in the meantime she’s enjoying the cool menthol mellow flavor.
Report Post »hi
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:39amSickos
Report Post »hi
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:47amThat sick bastard Dr. Spack should be thrown in jail. What a quack. Hurting kids is the most evil sin.
Also,Of course the kid of two ***** parents is going to be messed up mentally!
The end is near for sure. How could it get any worse. I guess next is legalizing pedophilia.
Report Post »hi
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 7:52amI wrote lesbian but used “O” instead of “ian.” Just wanted to clarify that I didn’t cuss!! The original lesbians were from the Island of Lesbos. So, I don’t get it.
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