Transgender at 7, claims she knew it at 2.

[TrumpIsPresident]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...s=rss_homepage

Read the article and make your comments but I think the notion that a 2 year old "knows they're born in the wrong body" is ridiculous.

Wish I could fast-forward to see how she feels when puberty kicks in.

[Remnas]

Bout to say, she hasn't even hit puberty yet.

[Zoaric]

That's... um... yeah, I have no idea how you could possibly know something that
young.

[Kraenen]

Who are you to say what goes on in another person's mind?

[Spraxle]

Just as you three don't know maybe she does know. Obviously she doesn't fit your definition of 'normal' so it's easy to be dismissive. People know things about themselves. Just as you know you're a guy or whatever they know about themselves.

Edit: To the puberty thing, majority of people with gender identity issues don't feel regret about their 'choices' down the line. And before anyone cites the boy who had his penis fried off during circumcision, that is actually a really good case study in how you can not change someone from male to female if they do not identify that way internally. Suicide rates are huge among teens with gender identity problems because they do not feel like they even belong in their own body.

[Ayla]

A 2 year old insisting they are a boy shouldn't be taken seriously as transgendered. A 7 year old who has claimed to be for 5 years, should be taken seriously. But of course hormone treatments dont start yet anyways. So even if it is a phase, whats the harm in going along with it?

[Aristeia]

I can't wait for everyone to come in here with all their opinions on this subject that they most likely know nothing about.

[zhero]

Who are you to say what goes on in another person's mind?

the fact that the majority of people don't really remember much of anything before the age of 4.

[TrumpIsPresident]

I can't wait for everyone to come in here with all their opinions on this subject that they most likely know nothing about.

Well if you grow tired of waiting you can hop on over to ...every single other thread here on MMO OT.

[derpkitteh]

i think this is ok. it's best to start the change before puberty messes up the body with all of the things you don't want.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Umm is this for real? With 7 I was barely aware of myself, let alone 2. Unless this is some extremly intelligent kid with vastly supperior cognitive functions this is just ridiculous.

[Sky High]

ok, don't really know why I should give a shit. who's to say otherwise, if he meant that or not.

[Aristeia]

Well if you grow tired of waiting you can hop on over to ...every single other thread here on MMO OT.

...ok that's a good point.

[Mormolyce]

On the other hand, how could she know she was in the RIGHT body at age 2?

The thing is, the longer they wait to start sex reassignment the less successful it is. Biology doesn't give us the luxury of time.

[Kraenen]

the fact that the majority of people don't really remember much of anything before the age of 4.

I'd rather say i don't know, than assume I know what goes on in kids heads at that young age. Plus your point about the majority of people isn't a good comparison since they are something like ~50 years old? (Idk, much older than teen years).

[prwraith]

This kind of thing is getting a tad out of hand.

Either that or I'm gonna spend the rest of my life laughing every time I read the news. Which is probably a good thing.

[Mrbleedinggums]

Zombergy, I think that you're a mass murderer, but you don't know it yet. The notion that someone who is at your age and yet "knows that they are not born to kill more people than (insert person)" is ridiculous.

Wish I could fast-forward to see how you feel when (insert life stage) kicks in.

/end Jonathan Swift style rant

Because after all, who knows better about yourself than some random stranger like myself right? Just like how you people understand this child better than she does herself? It's that arrogance that is why people have used it for some false sense of justice to approve similar acts or thoughts.

Oh, these poor black people don't know what they're doing in this savage land. We're just helping them out by giving them our faith and our culture, and in exchange we'll keep them as slaves.

These Indians are such savages! How barbaric of them to do these things. We should do the right thing and assimilate them into our culture! After all, we know what's best for them better than they do.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanization_(of_Native_Americans)

The principle is the same: Ignorant people thinking they know about others better.

[TrumpIsPresident]

This kind of thing is getting a tad out of hand.

Either that or I'm gonna spend the rest of my life laughing every time I read the news. Which is probably a good thing.

Its only going to get stranger the further "tolerance" is stretched. Things we know are deviant today might be "accepted" tomorrow.

[prwraith]

Bunch of hypocrites in here.

If you are someone who says a child can't responsibly choose to have sex.

How the fuck, can you say a child knows enough to responsibly decide on gender re-assignment surgery?

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Its only going to get stranger the further "tolerance" is stretched. Things we know are deviant today might be "accepted" tomorrow.

Heh true true, my hypocrite post wasn't directed at you btw, it just happened to be under yours

[qwss111]

A 2 year old insisting they are a boy shouldn't be taken seriously as transgendered. A 7 year old who has claimed to be for 5 years, should be taken seriously. But of course hormone treatments dont start yet anyways. So even if it is a phase, whats the harm in going along with it?

I wouldn't say go along with it, that would be force. I would say be openminded about it.