a post despite my son and his bad behaviour

[mrsbrown]

When Alex was enrolled in a faith-based primary school (she is now at high school), her principal and teacher described how she refused to stand in either the boys' line or girls' line at school assembly. She played cricket and arm-wrestled boys on school camp.

The quote above is from an article about a 13 year old girl who was recently given permission by the court to begin the prcess of changing her gender to male. Read it here

The frightening thing for me is that you could change the name to mine and you would be right. I did all of those things. As well, I remember standing in front of a mirror when I was 4 and wishing I was a boy.

Comments

[splodgenoodles.livejournal.com]

This is always a tricky area.

Whenever I see it written up in the press, I always find they point to the most trivial reasons as to why a person is 'really' of the opposite sex.

I've arm wrestled too. I only stopped because I always lost. And I fail to see how learning martial arts and self defence is a path to masculinity... Nephew no.2 loves glittery things. In this family, that's no problem. He got tiaras and such like for chrissy presents, until he started asking for other things.

And also, more recently, I've met people who perfectly well there are people who's lives are agony until they can change their gender, and whose reasons for gender reassignment run far deeper than the trivial reasons mentioned in that article....

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Are you freaked by this because you think you still want to be male? Or because you think this child might be going down this path for the wrong reasons?

[mrsbrown.livejournal.com]

I'm concerned, I guess, that this girl seems to be supported by people with a narrow definition of femininity.

Would she still feel the need to be a male with someone like me as a role model?

From the reports, she has had a really fucked childhood, and it's not really ideal now. If her father had lived, would she still want to be male now?

The background as to the _why_ of her feelings don't seem to be fully explored or taken into account in making a decision that will affect her/him for the rest of her life.