'I'm a Girl' -- Understanding Transgender Children

[Shana A]

'I'm a Girl' -- Understanding Transgender Children
Parents of Transgender 6-Year-Old Girl Support Her Choice

By ALAN B. GOLDBERG and JONEIL ADRIANO
April 27, 2007

http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=3088298&page=1

From the moment we're born, our gender identity is no secret. We're either a boy or a girl. Gender organizes our world into pink or blue. As we grow up, most of us naturally fit into our gender roles. Girls wear dresses and play with dolls. For boys, it's pants and trucks.

But for some children, what's between their legs doesn't match what's between their ears -- they insist they were born into the wrong body. They are transgender children, diagnosed with gender identity disorder, and their parents insist this is not a phase.

[cluelessparent]

Wow.
At 6 y/o, I don't think too many parents would have the courage to support this situation.
I mean, imagine the legal and social conundrum if it did out to be just 'a phase'?

Those parents would be crucified for their actions.
What a story!

[lady amarant]

I found this story so tragic and heartwarming and hopeful all at the same time when I watched it on Youtube earlier this week. The segment that hit me hardest though was the 10-year old little girl named Riley - she was so sad and frustrated and angry, and I could so identify with that feeling, back when I was 10, and now.