Same kinda shows over here across the pond, they’re always shown putting on makeup, heels and skirts.
True, that is possible however the male to female that worked with my brother did the same, plenty of makeup, mini skirt and stilettoes. Johns Hopkins hospital stoped offering TS operations as they noted that it did not help or cure their patients.
The Johns Hopkins program was from the experimental era of transsexual therapy. Several US universities had similar programs in which a person would go through counseling, possibly medical treatment, and possibly surgery. And be studied by researchers the whole time.
Gender Identity disorder or transsexualism/transgenderism is easily cured in children. Matter of fact the Catholic Medical Association has a subsection under their brochure “Homosexuality and Hope” on childhood GID (Note however: sexuality and gender identity are very different). I’m not giving advice or anything btw.
Hermaphrodite is a really old term that isn’t used anymore, especially with the medical community (they came up with a new version of this word I think in the 40’s or 50’s). The proper term is intersex. Many Intersex people find the term hermaphrodite offensive. Think of it as kind of the same as calling someone with down syndrome a mongoloid. It is just offensive to that group. I know you didn’t mean it that way, I just thought I would give you the heads up.There are Hermaphrodites.
Is he “out” at work? Do you think he’ll be able to keep his job?
So sorry for your pain, hopefully he won’t have an operation, he would be able to go back to a man if he doesn’t change that part more easily. I see it a good sign though he likes girls, many have an added SSA component to their confusion. See society is letting them think this is OK. I have a son with SSA and thinks that is OK to be a homosexual. Do you have any information from his childhood that would be helpful to others to maybe prevent some things that may have contributed to it if at all? I know more about the SSA, but only what I read about TG. Do you have any support? Their is an Encourage group from the Courage ministry on line and we do have a women with a daughter with the same problem and you might get support there. We support both sexual confusion and gender confusion problems. Also their is a therapists Dr. Fitz-gibbons that could be helpful to talk to for you or your son at some point if it is possible.
Dear cloisterdmon, I shall pray for you and your son and hope that he does not decide to get surgery.
You could have been more compassionate. Have some respect for some of us hurting mothers, especially for this women on here. We still love our children unconditionally as God has commanded. We don’t love the behavior, even if we find it horrible, and don’t agree with it, what value did you add by making that comment? We are **all **sinners. Transsexuals are not bad people, they are someone’s child. Please keep your judgmental talk and un Christian behavior to yourself.This is such a puzzle for you. I did laugh about the confession. Even though it isn’t funny in reality, but we have to laugh or we cry. Thank God you can still have a sense of humor. My son had brain cancer at five and when I found out about my son with SSA, and wanted to act out because he thought we would accept it, it was worse than death, at least I knew if he died when he was young I knew his salvation wasn’t at risk, but this was such a trauma for us especially his father, all I could think of he was going to hell. But even as bad as it is, I can understand that your baby boy that you remember, now wants to be your daughter would be devastating and to me would be an even bigger cross. I know just like how you must feel that no one knows what pain it is for a parent until they have gone through it. It is true that God gives each of us only the things we can handle and guess he knew you were going to be strong enough for it, some of us may not have.
Sometimes you can be more compassionate too. Where you get angry at lack of compassion is bizarre, to use different terms you want compassion for mothers of cripples, but demonstrate lack of compassion for the cripples themselves, how queer.
Catholics are suppose to be Charitable even to people they don’t like.
No one was made bad, we do bad things. I wonder if you had a child that had done something wrong and told them they were a bad child instead of saying you did some thing bad. We are all children of Christ and even though some people are messed up for whatever reason, we call their behavior bad, not the person. You just insulted Jesus. If you have no children then you wouldn’t understand, so please be more considerate. You could have made your point and left it at that without those comments. It is the doctors that are really doing evil.
God have mercy on us all!