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originally posted by: DoubleU5
a reply to: knowledgehunter0986
The purpose of social engineering:
To create a society free of gender bias
And cultural bias and sexual bias and blah blah blah
Kids don't even understand any of it, leave them out of it.
Early Childhood Gender Identity and Sexuality Angela Oswalt, MSW
One final realm, or channel, of child development is gender identity and sexuality. Many people believe that sexual development does not become an important issue until puberty and adolescence. However, children begin showing sexual behavior and interest in their sexual functioning starting in infancy. Development of gender identity and sexuality cuts across physical, cognitive, social, and emotional developmental dimensions. However, just as in all channels of development, it's important to remember that each child is unique and may develop more rapidly or slowly than other children.
www.gracepointwellness.org...
Gender awareness. By age 2 or 3, a child starts to develop a sense of being a male or female. This awareness is called gender identity. Kids this age start to understand the difference between boys and girls, and can identify themselves as one or the other. Some people think gender identity is biologically determined and some say it's a product of a child's environment. Most likely, it's a combination of both. kidshealth.org...
originally posted by: MysticPearl
a reply to: Deaf Alien
It's in the OP. Plus common sense on how things work.
You all who disagree and keep arguing there's a bunch of boys strapped in girls bodies have yet to prove anything. And the onus is on you since you're in here attempting to refute the thread, which you haven't.
originally posted by: Deaf Alien
a reply to: Annee
I'm trying to understand why people won't pay attention to your posts like that one. Selective blindness? Gender dysphoria is a real phenomenon in children. Many studies have been done on this.
Seriously what do those people suggest they do with children with gender dysphoria? Withdrawing help until they're old enough to make a "decision"?
You see why I am tired of all of this.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: knowledgehunter0986
a reply to: Annee
Anne, there is no doubt that some people are born gay, or are born into the wrong bodies. That's not what this is about. If you really can't see how troubling this is, I'm not sure what else I can say to you..
Camp Aranu'tiq, a camp for transgender and gender-variant youth opened in 2009.
They continue to grow out of need for these kids.
I assure you - - I know what this is about.
www.camparanutiq.org...
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: knowledgehunter0986
I think it could mean a couple of things:
1. While still very rare, Gender disphoria may be a little more common than we originally thought,
2. Just because someone is referred to a therapist who specializes in gender dysphoria, doesn't mean they are 100% going to move to the next phase. It may end with counseling.
But, No - Let's go with the sky is falling.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: knowledgehunter0986
Telling a kid with gender dysphoria that girls are always girls and boys are always boys is psychologically harmful to them. A kid who doesn't have gender disphoria will not feel suicidal if you tell them that sometimes a girl might really be a boy.
I talked with my own daughter about gender dysphoria in an age-appropriate way when she was young and she never got confused. She just got more knowledgeable, and didn't freak out when one of her on-line friends told her about their own journey to transition.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: knowledgehunter0986
a reply to: kaylaluv
There's a big difference between a parent talking to their child about it and letting the school system tell them how it is. This is how it SHOULD be, not leaving it up to the schools.
Schools are indoctrination centers.
How many kids have killed themselves because their parents are ignorant?
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: imwilliam
a reply to: kaylaluv
The suicide rate goes down post-op, but it's still higher than it should be. Why? Because of lovely folks like yourself.
Or, because it's a mental disorder and indulging the patients delusions to the point of surgically mutilating them isn't the correct/best course of treatment
Most transgenders do not have surgery.
And NO - - it is not a mental disorder. Unless you consider the brain telling you your gender a mental disorder.
originally posted by: RainbowPride
a reply to: Deaf Alien
It certainly is real, and way under reported. The conservatives will be freaking out in years to come when the truth comes out that the numbers are likely 1/4 of children that are assigned the wrong gender by mother nature.
This is a revolution in the making, and about bloody time. How many have ended their own lives because the were a man or woman trapped in the wrong body? Can't proceed quick enough in my opinion.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: TzarChasm
. . . wait until you are old enough to at least drive, . . .
Way too late.
Hormone blockers need to be taken before any physical changes that happen during puberty.
originally posted by: MisterSpock
Would love to see someone try to logically reconcile their position on this from a age of consent standpoint.
If age of consent is based on the immaturity and inability to understand sexuality, why is that argument null and void when it comes to transgenderism.
Seems to be that someone who says a child is "aware" enough and mature enough to alter their sex would then by default invalidate the age of consent argument.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: CurlySue
You label them a HATE group? Are you insane? Wow, just wow...
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: CurlySue
American college of Pediatricians - "a hate group with a history of propagating damaging falsehoods against the LGBT community"
I can't post a link right now, but look them up on Wikipedia.
Anything that doesn't push you narrative gets a label and pushed to the sidelines, I see how you guys and gals work.
They are a hate group.