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[Peeps]

I used to pretend to be a boy when I was young. I never wanted to be a boy. It was make believe.

Between the ages of 3 and 5, my nephew would get out his mother’s high heels and prance around. I’d laugh and clap. We never made a big deal out of it.

When he was about 8 or so, he found a musical on TV, and he was dancing along with the women. Again, I didn’t make a deal out of it. I just said, “Let’s watch some baseball.”

He never said he wanted to be a girl. He was just playacting. He outgrew that phase when puberty hit.

I think this is how most parents with common sense and understanding of children would handle such a situation.

But not today! Oh, no! If my little girl says she wishes she were a boy, or my little boy says he wants to be a girlt–well, then, we’d better do what our little one wants or he/she might be unhappy with momsie and dadsie, and we can’t have that! Our job as parents is to make sure that our children are constantly happy, right?

 

[Thorolfr]

My daughter has plenty of friends who are having babies (my daughter has struggled with endometriosis for 3 years now). One of her friends has a little boy, and when he was only a very young boy, around 3, he asked if he could wear a dress…

But this young woman assumed that since her little boy was asking to wear a dress that he has gender dysphoria. So she not only allowed him to wear the dress, but bought him a wardrobe of girls’ clothing and a selection of girls’ toys, and started raising him as a girl! Over one question!

I’ve read several accounts of transgender children and at least in those cases, the children didn’t just ask once to wear a dress or wear boys clothing and they didn’t say just once that they felt they were the opposite gender. They were usually very insistent and over an extended period of time, and despite the parents’ attempts to dissuade them.

 

[Lion_IRC]

Doesn’t the idea that a person (soul) has been born into the wrong body validate Cartesian dualism?
#checkmate atheism

 

[Bruised_Reed]

Yeah, i think there’s a lot more going on there that you aren’t privy to. A lot.

No rancor. No anger. No silliness. Just straightforward denial of a request. I might have added, “Would you like to wear your Star Wars shirt now?”

This similar to how a friend reacted to her oldest trying to talk about their gender and who they really were.

Fast forward 20 years and the parents are dealing with their adult child who is trans and their pain of being not being heard for far too long. None of had any understanding about transgender people, it wasn’t on our radar. I’m grateful that parents are ignoring or trying to distract their children when they try to communicate something that adults struggle with.

And who cares if a boy wears a dress.

Oh, no! If my little girl says she wishes she were a boy, or my little boy says he wants to be a girlt–well, then, we’d better do what our little one wants or he/she might be unhappy with momsie and dadsie, and we can’t have that! Our job as parents is to make sure that our children are constantly happy, right?

Your mocking is really cruel. People do go through this.

Do you still help out at skating competitions? This family might be there.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

But not today! Oh, no! If my little girl says she wishes she were a boy, or my little boy says he wants to be a girlt–well, then, we’d better do what our little one wants or he/she might be unhappy with momsie and dadsie, and we can’t have that! Our job as parents is to make sure that our children are constantly happy, right?

Yeah, this is pretty insensitive and indicates that you don’t have empathy for the families dealing with real, actual cases of gender dysphoria in children, which do exist.

 

[Peeps]

Yeah, this is pretty insensitive and indicates that you don’t have empathy for the families dealing with real, actual cases of gender dysphoria in children, which do exist.

Yes, gender dysphoria exists.

But it is rare.

YES, I’m very insensitive, in fact, just plain disgusted, towards parents who give in to their children’s every whim and request and allow their child to run the familyt! This is a terrible way to raise a child! A child is not meant to be in charge of a family–the PARENTS, under God, are “in charge” of their family, just as God is in charge of HIS family, us! When we illicitly try to take charge of God’s family, things don’t go well in the Kingdom.

If a child demonstrates true symptoms of being “trans”, that’s a lot different from a child who expresses occasional (normal) curiosity about the opposite sex and their clothing/hair styles. But again, it’s rare.

 

[F_Marturana]

But this young woman assumed that since her little boy was asking to wear a dress that he has gender dysphoria. So she not only allowed him to wear the dress, but bought him a wardrobe of girls’ clothing and a selection of girls’ toys, and started raising him as a girl! Over one question!

I’m not sure how it’s possible to know through second hand knowledge that one question about a dress caused a child to be transgender.