Gender identity, gender change: Stratham school child case brings issue to forefront

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/GJNEWS_01/712120058
BY CHARLES McMAHON
12/12/2007

"Most recently, after a letter was sent out to the parents of a Stratham Memorial Elementary School classroom regarding a student's choice to be recognized as transgendered, the frequency of the situation has surfaced as being more common than generally thought"

This article is a good example on why columnists need to spend more time researching an article before actually writing it.

QuoteUnlike transsexuals, people who identify themselves as transgendered can be physiologically male or female, but feel as though they're trapped in a body of the wrong sex.

Huh?? I want to say to the writer: Would you care to try that statement again? You're writing gibberish.

QuoteShe eluded

Actually, that's alluded... back to journalism school with you... no, back to remedial freshman English...

Quoteto a condition known as gender identity disorder, and said she believes that the term is a misnomer in that it suggests that there is a distress involved in the condition and the individual. She said that it's everyone else that has the distress with the issue and not the people themselves.

This is very well said! It should be carved in stone over the main entrance to the APA. Until people finally get it.