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.