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A Boy's Life

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/transgender-children (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/transgender-children)
Hanna Rosin
10/14/2008

Since he could speak, Brandon, now 8, has insisted that he was meant to be a girl. This summer, his parents decided to let him grow up as one. His case, and a rising number of others like it, illuminates a heated scientific debate about the nature of gender—and raises troubling questions about whether the limits of child indulgence have stretched too far.

Very nice and rather even-handed read.

Nikki

first sentence was 'i like your heels'. lol

Quote"Are you transgender?"

"What's that?" Brandon asked.

"A boy who wants to be a girl."

"Yeah. Can I see your balloon?"

That is so cute and innocent

Very interesting read.  Zucker makes me so angry.. :-\

That's a beautiful story, Katia.  Thanks very much for finding it and posting it for us! :)

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Quote from: Tink on October 18, 2008, 04:16:30 PM
That's a beautiful story, Katia.  Thanks very much for finding it and posting it for us! :)

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dang, hi to you too!.. so whatchya been doing lately?  haha

Ahhhh.....running errands!  ;D ;)

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November 2008 Atlantic
A Boy's Life

Quote
Since he could speak, Brandon, now 8, has insisted that he was meant to be a girl. This summer, his parents decided to let him grow up as one. His case, and a rising number of others like it, illuminates a heated scientific debate about the nature of gender—and raises troubling questions about whether the limits of child indulgence have stretched too far.

by Hanna Rosin

QuoteThe local newspaper recorded that Brandon Simms was the first millennium baby born in his tiny southern town, at 12:50 a.m. He weighed eight pounds, two ounces and, as his mother, Tina, later wrote to him in his baby book, "had a darlin' little face that told me right away you were innocent." Tina saved the white knit hat with the powder-blue ribbon that hospitals routinely give to new baby boys. But after that, the milestones took an unusual turn. As a toddler, Brandon would scour the house for something to drape over his head—a towel, a doily, a moons-and-stars bandanna he'd snatch from his mother's drawer. "I figure he wanted something that felt like hair," his mother later guessed. He spoke his first full sentence at a local Italian restaurant: "I like your high heels," he told a woman in a fancy red dress. At home, he would rip off his clothes as soon as Tina put them on him, and instead try on something from her closet—a purple undershirt, lingerie, shoes. "He ruined all my heels in the sandbox," she recalls.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/transgender-children (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/transgender-children)

I like this on page 2 of the article -

QuoteClinically, men who become women are usually described as "male-to-female," but Spack, using the parlance of activist parents, refers to them as "affirmed females"—"because how can you be a male-to-female if really you were always a female in your brain?"