Faux-Parents, Physicians, Counselors are all part of this fiasco.
Maybe some are but I am a licensed therapist and see this a child abuse so I hope you are not painting mental health and medical professionals with a wide brush.
Ah, just do you know, the reason the parents in that case in the book you mention gave him sex reassignment surgery was because they had elected at birth to subject him to the unnecessary, cosmetic amputation surgery of his prepuce known as circumcision. The surgery was botched and resulted in his penis being amputated. So they were trying to make the best decision they could in an awful circumstance. I’d say they made one bad decision and then compounded it with another. His name was David Reimer, it’s a fascinating, if awful, cautionary tale of the dangers of unnecessary surgery. And he cant do anything now at all because he committed suicide in 2004, God rest his tortured soul.This is down right disgusting. And the “boy” will know the difference one day. Reminds me of a story, “As nature made him.” It was about a boy who was given “reassignment” stuff over the course of several years starting in infancy. Problem being, it didn’t take because his brain was that of a male child. Later, when he finally found this out, the treatment was stopped and he started living as a male. Of course, he can’t have children now, thanks to his parents and the doctors who made this choice for him. I think it’s pure selfishness and stupidity on the part of the “parents.” If the kid was older and wanted the sex change, that would be one thing. But to choose it for him? Disgusting!!
Ringil,
Your sources are worthless.
Funny you should mention that; there was a Law & Order SVU re-run on yesterday that revolved around a similar case (botched circumcision and the parents’ decision to raise the boy as a girl). It was an interesting episode, to say the least.
You mean a story with a positive spin…
and endorsed by homosexual run organizations.
I think the problem in your field is that some professionals make decisions regarding gay parenting on some pretty out-of-date, linear research.
I’m thinking loss of parental rights.
Yes, I’ve seen that episode too. Law and Order often takes its cues for subject matter from real world events and I think that episode was inspired direct by David Reimer’s story. He had a twin brother as well.
Just checking, but are you suggesting that the American Psychological Association is somehow run by homosexuals? And that therefore their opinions about the harmful effects of trying to, essentially, force gender identity reinforcing behaviors on children being harmful are wrong or untrustworthy? Really?
No, you don’t get it.
) misrepresents a two year old Daily Mail story that in turn is based on a CNN report. The blog did no interviews or research of it’s own; not with the families, not with the physicians, not with the psychologists. The blog implies an eight year old had a sex change operation, which did not occur. The blog ignores the fact a (possibly) single and, I assume straight, woman is dealing with the same issue as the lesbian couple. It uses this omission to attack LGBT people and further inflame the bias of its ignorant readers.You don’t know all parents and you do not know all gay parents. Regeneruos has studied gay parents and his conclusions differ from yours.
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