QuoteRather than taking the drastic step of giving the boy hormones to delay puberty, someone should have asked whether it was his upbringing that made him want to cut off his penis.
The presumption being that no-one has. Not the parents. Not the social workers. Not the medical staff. Just the writer.
What we have here is the beginings of the realities of negativity toward transgender. The extremists have had their rant, making specious claims about god, holy texts and such. Now this is the rather more calmer reaction.
But the problem remains the same. What these people are reacting to is the feeling, it just doesn't seem right. It just doesn't seem right that a boy should be a girl or a girl should even consider being a boy.
We all know that, doing some things to kids can cause some problems. We know, hitting them or being too critical can make them agressive or nervous. We know they need love, loads of it. That sexual abuse will make them isolated, lonely, confused and agressive.
We need an explaination for this. We need to know why some little boys want to wear dresses and bras and such.
OK, we accept that, as they get older, some children become gay. We don't like it. But we accept that. Now we have to accept little boys behaving like girls and we don't understand.
What caused this? Have these children been brainwashed? Is this pushy parents trying to impose this on their children?
We need an explaination that we can understand.
