What would you do if you were this parent?

lolakimono · ‎03-29-2012

I just saw this on CBS.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/born-this-way-stories-of-young-transgender-children/

Marp2 · ‎01-31-2012

I would hope I would not have to go though the angst one of the parents in the story did before accepting and supporting my child:

He acknowledges that he hired a series of therapists in an effort to convince Venice to live as a girl -- all to no avail.

"So I was totally in the wrong area," he said. "Spending lots of money trying to fix a kid that, you know, wasn't really broken."

lolakimono · ‎03-29-2012

I thought it was interesting that one parent said when the child was a toddler, he was miserable when they went clothes shopping, and now at age 5 has entered kindergarten registered as a girl. It sounds like that child will have a much easier time transitioning as an adolescent if the entire school record reflects the same gender.

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

I doubt I would subject the child to media scrutiny.

evelomaddict · ‎04-06-2013

love, support and protect them like every parent is supposed to do.

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"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?" Hillel

pistolino · ‎07-04-2011

Honestly, I wouldn't be thrilled. I view it as a mental problem (you have this anatomy, your mind tells you you are the other gender).

I also think it's crazy to give teens hormone implants that keep puberty at bay. You can't fool Mother Nature...

bathina · ‎03-14-2010

On 6/8/2014 pistolino said:
Honestly, I wouldn't be thrilled. I view it as a mental problem (you have this anatomy, your mind tells you you are the other gender).

I also think it's crazy to give teens hormone implants that keep puberty at bay. You can't fool Mother Nature...

Your "view" has been disproved by science. The body is a very complicated thing. You would be surprised at the number of babies born with both scks organs. Is it a mental problem then?

Sidonie · ‎06-06-2014

On 6/8/2014 pistolino said:
Honestly, I wouldn't be thrilled. I view it as a mental problem (you have this anatomy, your mind tells you you are the other gender).

I also think it's crazy to give teens hormone implants that keep puberty at bay. You can't fool Mother Nature...

I agree to a degree though I think it is some sort of birth defect.

To answer the question I would cry a lot and pray even more to be able to handle the situation wisely..