If the kid identified as a girl since she could express herself who the hell are you guys to say she's wrong?
If she goes to school as a girl why would it be "weird" for her to go into the girl's restrooms? I didn't realize trans people had big neon labels on their body.
Y'all are the pits sometimes.
I don't think that we are there as a society at this point. There is nothing wrong with transgender obviously, but it IS a tough subject for many people to wrap their heads around. I can understand why uneducated people on the matter would be hesitant to be ok with a biological boy using the same restroom as their daughters.
Because telling your kid "No you're wrong shut up and be a boy" would be the responsible parenting action to take.
They have 4 other kids.
No, I get that, but I still DO think that 6-7 years old is very young for such a huge decision. I have a little cousin who is the same age that is VERY flamboyant and girly, but I mean suggesting to him that he should have been a girl so young is jumping the gun a bit IMO. Maybe he will grow up and change? Or maybe he will be a feminine gay? Who knows.
if I was a little girl at the school, id sure find it awkward and embarassing to go into the bathroom and find a boy, who just happens to identify as a girl, in there.
Also...gurl you may not know what you are, but the world knows for a fact that you're a boy. A child doesn't go around from the moment its possible for them to communicate, telling each other they're a girl unless the parents have something to do with it. A child is impressionable.
If the child were in high school I could understand but a first grader? Really? A six year old changes their mind every 5 seconds. The parents are suspect.
And "separate is inherently unequal" should apply to restrooms too. But it does beg the question: do the "men" and "women" labels on restroom doors refer to gender or biological sex?
Anyways, she's biologically a boy. She should be using the boy's restroom, or a separate one at this point. I don't blame any children or parents that are against it. Sure, I'm all for be who you wanna be, born this way, and all that ****, but this kid is biologically a boy, and I don't think you, as a parent, would be 100% okay with someone with male genitalia in the same restroom as your little girl.
She was so petrified of being a boy/dressing like a boy that they couldn't get her to go anywhere due to her anxiety. She is a girl, you guys are ****ed up for saying she's too young to know what she feels.
Gender issues are the stupidest. Why can't she just use the bathroom she wants to use? There's no reason. It's the worst.
Who's to say this kid doesn't have an ulterior motive? The bathroom is one of the most personal and intimate 'experiences' for an individual, which is why we have social mores and regulations that set apart the males from the females. Of course I'm not going to think anything devious of a first-grader, but it's unfair to a girl that a guy be given entry to a female-exclusive domain just because he wants to say he's female. It's about principle.
Critical thinking happens as early as the age of two years old, and even by that age kids can easily identify what are boy norms and what are girl norms. If the girl has issues with being a boy and wants to identify as a girl then that's his issue, you can't tell him " No, you are this many years of age, you don't know what you want". You're just asking for an even more confused child.
The school should at least let him use the nurses bathroom or one where he feels conformable to do his business. They're making a mistake and just damaging the girl by giving her a social stigma.
No. He acts like a girl so (assumedly) his parents have convinced him that he is a girl born in the wrong body. Which, erm, I guess isn't a big deal but I mean he IS very young.
I can't help but feel that his parents have played a big role in his transgender-ness. I just don't think that a child so young could understand the scope of thinking that he should have been born a girl.
There's a difference between a child saying "I feel like a girl" and "I AM a girl". The child went to a psychologist who diagnosed them with gender identity issues. Many parents of transgendered children did not even know what transgender meant before they took their child to a doctor who told them about it so saying they pushed this on their child makes no sense. If anybody wants to learn more about transgendered children I suggest watching this 20/20 documentary
1) SHE IS A GIRL. That is who SHE identifies as. It is not your right to label her as you see fit because it makes you more comfortable. Stop calling her a boy. Just ****ing STOP.
2) It is completely normal for young people this age to have gender dysphoria at this age. Do you honestly think the girl just went to her parents and said "I want to be a girl" and they took her up on her request? **** no. The article states that her passport and state ID list her as female. This sort of change would have went though only with the consultation of the proper specialists.
3) No one has made a life changing choice yet. It is likely that she will begin taking hormone blockers to offset the affects of testosterone and allow her to life happily as a girl until the time comes when she can decide for herself if she wants to get gender reassignment surgery.
4) Since she is a girl, she should be allowed to use the girls bathroom. Not a gender neutral bathroom, but a girls bathroom. It is your irrational feelings that put you off from this transgendered girl using a girls bathroom, and your irrational feelings are irrelevant.
1) SHE IS A GIRL. That is who SHE identifies as. It is not your right to label her as you see fit because it makes you more comfortable. Stop calling her a boy. Just ****ing STOP.
2) It is completely normal for young people this age to have gender dysphoria at this age. Do you honestly think the girl just went to her parents and said "I want to be a girl" and they took her up on her request? **** no. The article states that her passport and state ID list her as female. This sort of change would have went though only with the consultation of the proper specialists.
3) No one has made a life changing choice yet. It is likely that she will begin taking hormone blockers to offset the affects of testosterone and allow her to life happily as a girl until the time comes when she can decide for herself if she wants to get gender reassignment surgery.
4) Since she is a girl, she should be allowed to use the girls bathroom. Not a gender neutral bathroom, but a girls bathroom. It is your irrational feelings that put you off from this transgendered girl using a girls bathroom, and your irrational feelings are irrelevant.
Just because people have different opinions than you do doesn't mean they're stupid I completely understand why parents/kids wouldn't want her in their bathroom just because I could see them being uncomfortable. Stop being so condescending
1) SHE IS A GIRL. That is who SHE identifies as. It is not your right to label her as you see fit because it makes you more comfortable. Stop calling her a boy. Just ****ing STOP.
2) It is completely normal for young people this age to have gender dysphoria at this age. Do you honestly think the girl just went to her parents and said "I want to be a girl" and they took her up on her request? **** no. The article states that her passport and state ID list her as female. This sort of change would have went though only with the consultation of the proper specialists.
3) No one has made a life changing choice yet. It is likely that she will begin taking hormone blockers to offset the affects of testosterone and allow her to life happily as a girl until the time comes when she can decide for herself if she wants to get gender reassignment surgery.
4) Since she is a girl, she should be allowed to use the girls bathroom. Not a gender neutral bathroom, but a girls bathroom. It is your irrational feelings that put you off from this transgendered girl using a girls bathroom, and your irrational feelings are irrelevant.