Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children

[Olivia P]

Brynn Tannehill, 06/10/14 08:43 AM ET

Recently, a video about a transgender child in California named Ryland Whittington went viral. It is beautiful and moving and shows the power of unconditional parental love.

Sadly, like every other conversation about transgender children, the comments section was often unkind. Scanning the comments, I saw the same poorly thought-out ideas keep popping up. Many of them were similar to things said about transgender adults, but others were particular to transgender children.

I think it's time to put these misconceptions to bed.

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/dispelling-myths-misconceptions-and-lies-about-gender-nonconforming-children_b_5472189.html

[suzifrommd]

Great article.

Not so great that it runs in the HuffPost, a progressive paper where most readers probably already have an open mind. We need articles like this to run EVERYWHERE.

[dalebert]

A friend of mine just pointed out this ignorant and hateful rant about Ryland and children like him.

http://themattwalshblog.com/2014/06/03/this-poor-child-is-confused-not-transgendered/

[Vicky]

I can't use language bad enough on this board to express my feelings on that.

[Destrie]

This is a great article, and that comment is ridiculous...It really annoys me when people post with no filter...

[LordKAT]

  Did we read the same article?

This is a great article, and that comment is ridiculous...It really annoys me when people post with no filter...

[dalebert]

Did we read the same article?

She was probably referring to the original article; not the later one that I linked.

[LordKAT]

She was probably referring to the original article; not the later one that I linked.

Oh, that makes much more sense. I'm a bit off I guess.

[Destrie]

Oh, that makes much more sense. I'm a bit off I guess.

Yeah, I meant the article in the first post. Sorry 'bout the confusion, I couldn't figure out how to quote until just now

[LordKAT]

It is OK, I just got confused for a bit.