The boy who’s becoming a girl

[Shana A]

The boy who's becoming a girl

Written by Marcia Segelstein
October 14, 2011, 11:25 AM

http://online.worldmag.com/2011/10/14/the-boy-whos-becoming-a-girl/

At the age of 7, Thomas Lobel was diagnosed with gender identity disorder. At age 8, he began "transitioning." With the active support of his parents—a lesbian couple who adopted him when he was 2—Thomas is in the process of becoming "Tammy." Now 11 years old, Thomas, who dresses like a girl and is called Tammy, has begun taking hormone-blocking drugs to stop him from going through puberty.

Parents Pauline Moreno and Debra Lobel, who live in the San Francisco area, report that at the age of 3, Thomas told them (through sign language used due to a speech impediment), "I am a girl."

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I also have no doubt that Thomas is a troubled child who needs help. And the help his parents, psychiatrist, and friends have chosen to give him is to change him from a boy to a girl.

[spacial]

The article just makes it clear why we don't run society according to one person's morality anymore.

But, as always, some of the replies are an ablosute screem.

Worse than Sodom and Gomorrah?? Do these people even read the story of Sodom and Gomorrah?

[LilDevilOfPrada]

i feel sorry for Thomas to a point because what i see is two parents who will just make him want to be a girl and give him a life of sadness because my friend told her parents she wants to be a boy low and be hold now she is a model and enjoys her life as a girl and stopping the child from having puberty is ok but honestly i have no doubts tammy is going to be happy yet incomplete but who knows

[spacial]

LilDevilOfPrada

Where did you get this information?

[LilDevilOfPrada]

sorry its just how article is written to me it seems like its saying the parents are forcing in the child over something they said at 2 i mean sorry i can easily be wrong but i have had many many tom boy friends they well said the same stuff until about 12 and ended up just being child hood innocence i mean nothing than that's how i understand it sorry spacial just putting my personal experience with how i understand the article i mean no insult or anything

[Shana A]

The source for this article is right wing Christian, their editorial slant is to make this child's life look like the most horrible thing ever, lightning bolts will emit from the heavens, striking down unbelievers, etc. Posted here so our community can be aware of this extreme POV.

Z

PS, don't read their comment section unless you wish to become ill...

[LilDevilOfPrada]

I was dumb enough to read all 94  wow talk about losing your happy vibe FOR YOUR OWN SAKE DO NOT READ THEM !! they are so bad it cause me lose faith in anyone who follows religion

[pebbles]

Yet another pristine exsample of the unending chronical of christians and their "love".

[spacial]

LilDevilOfPrada

No worries. Thanks for getting back.

I just see these sort of people as trying to hold back the tides.

When this article appeared in the Daily Mail (UK), the suggestion was that this was some sort of lesbian plot against males. 

But it's useful to read their stuff, just to know what they are currently thinking. I generaly find the replies interesting, partly because they indicate the sort of impressions the publishers are hoping to create. Though they are clearly onto a looser on this one.

One of the great things about this section of Susans's is we don't need to trawl through these extremists sites to read this stuff, as the relevant parts have been found for us.

[mimpi]

Non UK posters should be aware that the Daily Mail is a right wing hate rag with a particularly disgusting history which includes support for fascism, anti semitism and racism.

Also known here as the Daily Hate, the Daily Heil or the Hate Mail.