Five-year-old boy lives as girl in youngest case of Gender Identity Disorder

hurfdurf said:
So the kid is miserable, dislikes traditionally male gender orientated clothing and cartoons, but they should have forced him to sit through such things?
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He would have been miserable for a short time, when he was 3.

would have been instantly forgotten about.

At 3, my son was toddling around with a peter rabbit teddy bear playing with the dog in the garden and watching telly tubbies.

He wasnt having an arguement with his mother about what clothes he wanted to wear.
 
Hurfdurf I'm sure none of us are qualified on this issue so to say, but it seems to me overwhelming common sense that unless the kid watched one episode of Dora the Explorer and immediately started to cut his willy off, there was a period of time during which this behaviour could have been discouraged. It strikes me as extraordinarily strange that there was no opportunity for the parents to nip this in the bud.
 
Nitefly said:
Hurfdurf I'm sure none of us are qualified on this issue so to say, but it seems to me overwhelming common sense that unless the kid watched one episode of Dora the Explorer and immediately started to cut his willy off, there was a period of time during which this behaviour could have been discouraged. It strikes me as extraordinarily strange that there was no opportunity for the parents to nip this in the bud.
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Clearly a lot of people have never dealt with people with gender identity disorders then
 
edscdk said:
show him a video of child birth, then let him decide..~?
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Doesn't really work.

But it did remind me of the big issue that I doubt he has considered aged 5 surrounding gender reassignment. You can't have biological kids.

Whilst he can still adopt and stuff, we have no idea how strong his paternal emotions may be.

I'm also quite sure they won't do gender reassignment surgery on you until you've gone through puberty, as both the growth and huge hormonal changes can have a massive effect on your body and the surgery. However, if they're truly going down that road, they'll have put him on hormonal medication, so he'll probably be on Oestrogen tablets (I think it's Oestrogen they do).

I'm also appalled at how many 'anti-transgender' people there are on the forums. Clearly none of you even thought to watch 'My Transsexual Summer'. Which was a pretty good documentary on the whole Transgender scenario.

As I've already stated though, whilst I have absolutely nothing against gender reassignment, a child of 5 cannot understand the ramifications that something like this would have on his life. If he still feels like this aged 14-16 and has spent a number of years on hormonal treatment than fair enough.

I believe (I may be wrong), that even if you or I walked into a Doctor's surgery tomorrow, it would take a long psycho-analysis, and then I think it's two years living as the opposite sex with hormonal treatment until you can actually have surgery. The whole process takes a number of years...

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I've spent a large proportion of my medical life dealing with intersex issues and the problems people face from them and the traditional medical establishments blanket prescribing of gender-assignment one way based upon very faulty research and then you get this ... from one end of the spectrum to the other.

The thing is children have phases they go through - some stay throughout life some are merely for the moment. But labels do not. Once a label is attached it is for life. It creates bias and it facilitates prejudice.

This strikes me as something that is severely wrong. Yes we do not know the complete facts but the child is not capable of making this decision he will in no way be capable of passing an assessment to demonstrate Gillick/Fraser competence. This is a decision that should be left till this child is a teenager and can make an informed choice. It may well be the lad makes that decision at that time. This is extremely poor practice. The only way I think they could justify it to prevent harm and then I think there are plenty of better solutions.
 
There is a ridiculous amount of faulty thinking in this thread I don't even know where to begin. However, the decision that has been made is totally incorrect also - in my opinion.

That may change when all the facts emerge. Needless to say there's probably more going on, but on face value, it's pretty damn unethical.
 
at 5 decisions of what he does should be made by parents

in this case the decision is made by a KID.

end of story here the parents are wrong :) my little brother always wanted to try lipsticks and all that from my mums purse but he tough nice and clear this is for GIRLS he is a BOY and that was it.. he goes EW at everything girly now - just how a boy should do yet he was never beaten or even threaten to be beat up if he didn't do what we say :)
 
spudbynight said:
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Never has this picture been so apt for me.
 
Ahleckz said:
Incorrect. The term 'Psychologist' isn't a protected term. Whilst some types of psychologist are (clinical, educational, and a couple more) protected, the title in itself is not and nor is the title of 'Child Psychologist'.
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The only problem with this is that the title of 'psychologist' doesn't mean anything. You're right; anybody can call themselves a psychologist, just like anybody can call themselves a homeopathist, nutritionist, and so on.

However, (most) real medical professionals don't recognise homeopathists, and most real Psychologists don't recognise those without the required qualification.

e: I read another post where you basically said this. However the term 'Educational and Child Psychologist' is. There's a lot of BS out there, sadly :(
 
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