Here's a story about Jazz, a 6-year-old transgendered kid:
On the surface, the Jennings and their four children are a typical American family. But their youngest child, Jazz, is only in kindergarten, and already she is one of the youngest known cases of an early transition from male to female.
"We'll say things like, 'You're special. God made you special.' Because there aren't very many little girls out there that have a penis," said Renee. "Renee and I are in 100 percent agreement as to how we should raise Jazz," said Scott. "We don't encourage, we support. And we just keep listening to what she tells us."
From the moment he could speak, Jazz made it clear he wanted to wear a dress. At only 15 months, he would unsnap his onesies to make it look like a dress. When his parents praised Jazz as a "good boy," he would correct them, saying he was a good girl.
"When Jazz was two, he asked his mother a question that left her numb and frozen. "[He] said, 'Mommy, when's the good fairy going to come with her magic wand and change, you know, my genitalia?" according to Renee."
Two!? At two years old, most kids are worried about juice, cookies, and learning to talk in complete sentences let alone use words like 'genitalia'. Either Jazz was very smart, or her parent's are putting words in her mouth.
Perhaps it was a misquote, but I don't get that sense from the article.
2 Cents.
How about this quote of the parents:
"We’ll say things like, ‘You’re special. God made you special.’ Because there aren’t very many little girls out there that have a penis,"
THERE AREN'T ANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is going to be one messed up teenager and adult someday. Look for him on a sex offender list near you.
Straight Talk from Sid.
Where are social services? Do they only take abused children from poor people these days?
Poor little kid is just trying to please his warped parents. Their behaviour is abusing him as surely as if they were molesting him. He needs to be rescued from them and soon.
Look,if my 5 yr old boy did this I would say no you are a boy,you have a penis.If you think your a girl,then go do the dishes,wash my clothes,go shopping,and whine about every little detail on gods green earth.LOL
I was a little put off by how well spoken they'd quoted Jazz as being at such a young age. I think it was probably more a case of paraphrasing on the parents part, though.
Childen have the ability to show personality characteristics at extremely young ages (well before 2 yo.), so why would this be any different? I think the fact that Jazz was very unhappy when unable to act and dress like a girl, and is now happy acting/dressing like a girl speaks volumes. You can impose your preset ideas on children, but you can't force them to be happy doing it.
Most excellent.
This child is lucky to have nonjudgmental, supportive people in her life.
People who can't muster unconditional love should not procreate. It's the greatest contribution they can make to society.
What if he kept insisting on going onto the road? I assume they wouldn't say "Get off the road!" but "We support your decision to get on the road."
Kid insists he's a girl. The only problem is, he's not a girl, never will be a girl. If he does go ahead with surgery, he will be a castrated man pretending to be female. Parents reply: "As long as she's happy..."
I have to suspect the idea was planted in this child. Even if you made a case for "brain imprints", the child would not be expressing that recognition of his brain condition "as soon as he started to talk".
He might prefer playing with girl stuff, dressing like a girl, but wouldn't be saying "I've got the wrong sexual parts, mom."
I wouldn't rule out suggestions from the older brothers or sexual abuse as a factor in this boy's case.
Or maybe mom just wanted a girl...
1. Yes, there are people messed up enough to have genuine gender identity issues. Fundamentally their sex is whatever their 23rd pair of chromosomes make it to be. Yes, they can cut pieces off and turn things inside out, but that doesn't change the genetics. If they want to pay for it though (not the taxpayers or insurance companies forced to cover it), more power to them.
2. There is no way any kind of surgery of that sort or even alternate-sex hormones should be administered to a minor. This is purely elective stuff. The odds of screwing someone up permanently are far higher than the "confusion" they may suffer as they wait a couple of years and making an informed adult decision.
3. The whole idea that a very young child is so forcefully objecting to having male bits is absurd. As #19 (MoniA) noted, somebody is putting this junk into the kid's head. 2 year olds do not know that much about anatomy!
STFS!
The liberal approach to parenting is exactly the problem here. The parents have completely abandoned their duty for flower-child wishy-washiness.
You don't think I know about understanding? You don't think I have compassion? You don't know me. It's one thing for parents to support the decision of a teenager or adult child who has made the decision to castrate himself and call himself a woman. It's quite another for parents to mess this kid up even further while still in his formative years.
Thanks for sticking to the point of the discussion, and not making it personal, by the way. Oh wait, you didn't add anything to the conversation but a personal attack. Classy, meg.
And by the way, just because the Texas Supreme court doesn't think anyone can ever change their "sex," some pretty reputable biologists disagree. My body seems a pretty temporary canvas; why should my sex be any different? I'm astounded that supportive parents who are wildly conservative to my thinking for failing to encourage their child to live her reality are considered too liberal and thus abusive. Yikes! Perhaps we should start removing kids from homes where parents are uneducated, hateful, close-minded, and angry? Just a suggestion. :) Sounds more abusive to me than parents who have no problems with exploding the sex/gender/sexuality binary. And social scientists roundly agree. But they don't carry bibles, so I digress.
And I simply can't NOT comment on the scary posters who think this 7-year-old is doomed to become a sex offender? Yes. You must be correct. Trangender people must have SOMETHING to do with coersive sex. I just can't think of what. Since 90% of child molestation sex abuse cases are straight men molesting girls, 5% are men molesting boys (straight and gay identifying men) it sure looks like Jazz is an unlikely candidate.
What a cool kid. Congrats to her. I could only hope to parent such a prescient, precocious, and analytical kindergartner!
They should grab him, shake him up, and tell him right from wrong. Go to Toys-r-us and buy some damn trucks for him for crying out loud!!!!!
Its the parents fault for letting him have his own way. Yes I do understand that as parents your suppose to support your child and make them happy, by encouraging a 6yr old to be GAY is not cute at all. He's lucky he's not living with me, cause he'll for sure wouldn't be in my house talking about "mommy can you buy some more dress's for me tomorrow".
... AND WHY IN THE WORLD DOES HIS BEDROOM LOOKS LIKE A GIRLS ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???? This is fucking nasty!
P.s - can you imagine all the torture and pain he's gonna deal with when he starts middle school or highschool (kids are cruel, and he's definetly gonna see how cruel they can be if he doesn't stop this foolishness and shop in the boys section)
... but the parents need to wake up and be rough on him instead of softening him up like a little bitch!
Daivd Reimer was born a boy, but when a doctor botched his circumcision, another doctor recommended raising him as a girl. The doctor then published articles and journal stating gender is based on 'nurture', not nurture.
http://reason.com/archives/2004/05/24/the-death-of-david-reimer
The problem here is the doctor completely ignored reporting that David rebelled at being a girl. Everything he was told in his first 14 years was that he was a girl ( i.e. literal brainwashing ). Do you think that his perception of wrong gender was completely in his head? I believe his story identifies that as much as people think that parents could brainwash children, the identity of gender is a core piece of who we are.
Other than that no freagin' shrink is going to help if Jazz is transgendered to make "him" a "normal boy." I knew some kids in childhood that knew they were in the "wrong body" since they were 2 & 3 years old, so you never know. Furthermore, what makes you think the parents aren't getting Jazz therapy now anyway? Maybe the "shrink" has tested Jazz and discovered it's serious. Maybe from that point on word got out and the media picked the story up. I say if Jazz's parents are accepting - then it's a hell of a lot better than having parents try to beat him into being "normal!"
There's your food for thought. Try not to choke on it.