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News and Events => Opinions & Editorials => Topic started by: Olivia P on June 10, 2014, 10:10:55 AM

Title: Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children
Post by: Olivia P on June 10, 2014, 10:10:55 AM
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
Title: Re: Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children
Post by: suzifrommd on June 10, 2014, 11:20:49 AM
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.
Title: Re: Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children
Post by: dalebert on June 12, 2014, 01:11:01 PM
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/
Title: Re: Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children
Post by: Vicky on June 12, 2014, 04:10:42 PM
I can't use language bad enough on this board to express my feelings on that.
Title: Re: Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children
Post by: Destrie on June 12, 2014, 07:26:10 PM
This is a great article, and that comment is ridiculous...It really annoys me when people post with no filter...
Title: Re: Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children
Post by: LordKAT on June 12, 2014, 08:51:45 PM
 ??? Did we read the same article?

Quote from: Destrie on June 12, 2014, 07:26:10 PM
This is a great article, and that comment is ridiculous...It really annoys me when people post with no filter...
Title: Re: Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children
Post by: dalebert on June 12, 2014, 08:56:12 PM
Quote from: LordKAT on June 12, 2014, 08:51:45 PM
??? Did we read the same article?

She was probably referring to the original article; not the later one that I linked.
Title: Re: Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children
Post by: LordKAT on June 12, 2014, 09:14:06 PM
Quote from: dalebert on June 12, 2014, 08:56:12 PM
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.
Title: Re: Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children
Post by: Destrie on June 13, 2014, 02:12:34 AM
Quote from: LordKAT on June 12, 2014, 09:14:06 PM
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 :P
Title: Re: Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children
Post by: LordKAT on June 13, 2014, 08:23:13 AM
It is OK, I just got confused for a bit.
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