Soldato
Soon as he sees girls at 16 i think he will switch back.
Most likely not true, 11 years of living as a sex, I doubt you'd suddenly change back...
kd
Five-year-old boy lives as girl in youngest case of Gender Identity Disorder
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Most likely not true, 11 years of living as a sex, I doubt you'd suddenly change back...
kd
Except that happened in the most famous gender case.
Man of Honour
No.
Sex = biological, almost always male or female but rarely (in humans) some form of hermaphroditism.
Sexual intercourse = "continuation of a species/recreational act of pleasure"
Gender = masculinity and femininity. A matter of trends, not absolutes. Some are biological (e.g. brow ridge) and some are social (e.g. the colour pink, styles of clothing, etc). The social ones are very changeable (e.g. in about 100 years in this country, pink has moved from very strongly masculine to very strongly feminine and back to mildly feminine, short dresses were very masculine in ancient Rome, etc).
Man of Honour
They will be telling him he has a right to have babies next, even though he has not got a womb!
That's nobody's fault, not even the Romans!
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The ocuk homophobes tend to get drowned by the xenophobes but I guess both go hand in hand with the narrow mindered ignorance of such neanderthals.
Soldato
So much crap posted in here from some extremely clueless people.
The child in the OP should be left to mature. He hasnt even hit puberty, his body isnt creating proper amounts of hormones at that age. At this point it is probably mostly down to a childs preference.
Transgender is in the mind, but not in a sense that they can just decide against it.. They can ignore it. And go against what their body is telling them. But at the same time at a genetic level their body is screwed up. Technical I know. This is to do with chemical imbalances, as well as chromosomes and quite a few other issues\aspects.
I have a friend who is transgender, He started life as a girl. Grew up as a girl, A tomboy. Bisexual. All extremely common amongst people who are transgender.
This thread really does just highlight the amount of people on this forum that think they're experts in matters they have really no idea about. And they always rush off to google and wiki to back up their genius notions.
The child in the OP should be left to mature. He hasnt even hit puberty, his body isnt creating proper amounts of hormones at that age. At this point it is probably mostly down to a childs preference.
Transgender is in the mind, but not in a sense that they can just decide against it.. They can ignore it. And go against what their body is telling them. But at the same time at a genetic level their body is screwed up. Technical I know. This is to do with chemical imbalances, as well as chromosomes and quite a few other issues\aspects.
I have a friend who is transgender, He started life as a girl. Grew up as a girl, A tomboy. Bisexual. All extremely common amongst people who are transgender.
This thread really does just highlight the amount of people on this forum that think they're experts in matters they have really no idea about. And they always rush off to google and wiki to back up their genius notions.
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No, it just shows that there are a lot of people who dont understand children.
I cant believe there is a parent on here that looks at this story and doesnt despair at the complete lack of sensible parenting on display by this childs parents.
Soldato
This story makes me sad. That kids going to be screwed up for a long time. 
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The people in this thread slating the diagnosis are no better than the religious nut jobs blindly sticking to their beliefs and deriding the atheists.
Oh, the ironing.
Man of Honour
Quoting Wikipedia is a fail in uni, enough said.
Soldato
This is something which should be taken slowley obviously - but it's hardly such a big surprise that some men are born with the wrong gender identity.
If it's possible to make men & women with both sex organs, girls who prefer women & boy's who prefer boys - is it that hard to imagine a boy with the mental make-up of a girl?.
I fail to see how something so mundaine is so shockign & appauling.
Obviously the child is young, if it wasn't for trying to mutilate his own genitals & constant crying at being called a boy - I'd expect the parents to think it's "just a phase, he's being silly".
They should take things easy & slow, give him time to also try out his gender of birth when he emotionally matures & let him make the decision when he's older if he indeed does want a gender change operation.
At the end of the day, he shouldn't be encouraged to make any life changes decisions before being able to contemplate the long term consequences of his actions.
For example, if he does indeed get changed into a women he will no longer be able to have children - something a child isn't old enough to contemplate or appreciate.
If it's possible to make men & women with both sex organs, girls who prefer women & boy's who prefer boys - is it that hard to imagine a boy with the mental make-up of a girl?.
I fail to see how something so mundaine is so shockign & appauling.
Obviously the child is young, if it wasn't for trying to mutilate his own genitals & constant crying at being called a boy - I'd expect the parents to think it's "just a phase, he's being silly".
They should take things easy & slow, give him time to also try out his gender of birth when he emotionally matures & let him make the decision when he's older if he indeed does want a gender change operation.
At the end of the day, he shouldn't be encouraged to make any life changes decisions before being able to contemplate the long term consequences of his actions.
For example, if he does indeed get changed into a women he will no longer be able to have children - something a child isn't old enough to contemplate or appreciate.
People who are argue that children of this age (you can most likely not tie their own shoelaces) are capable of being classed as informed when making such a decision are just as worrying in my opinion.
Soldato
Bullied? mate if he was at the secondary school I went to, he'd probably have killed himself, rough as ****
Lots of accusations of homophobia being made by the "enlightened" on this thread.
I think the consensus though isn't that GID is wrong or doesn't exist just that a 5 year old is too young to be diagnosed.
The issue people have isn't surrounding anything other than perceived irresponsible parenting.
I think the consensus though isn't that GID is wrong or doesn't exist just that a 5 year old is too young to be diagnosed.
The issue people have isn't surrounding anything other than perceived irresponsible parenting.
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Caporegime
But - and I haven't read the whole thread so I may have missed this - no one who has commented is a professional in any of the fields which would be requisite for their opinion to mean anything.
Other than, "I'm a parent and RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE ..."
As I said, haven't read the thread so if there are competent professionals discussing this then I'll shut my mouth
There are competent GD professionals discussing it.
Quite. As I said before I'm a fully qualified Child Psychologist with years of relevant experience.
what you learn in most uni's = a fail in RL....
wikipedia is mostly right or at the very least a very good starting point