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Actually it is affecting lives when little girls are joining Boy Scouts and anatomical males are demanding access to women's bathrooms and locker rooms. If you really believe that separate organizations and spaces means people are being oppressed and treated as second class citizens, you would argue just as vehemently for little boys to join Girl Scouts and go camping with them, for adult men to be troop leaders, for the abolition of women's rights groups like NOW, and for all bathrooms and locker rooms in both public and private space to be coed. Oh and the abolition of scholarships for girls, shutting down women's colleges, and women shall be forcing to compete against men in sports. All prisons will be coed as well, including the cells, and homeless and domestic violence shelters can no longer be female-only.
This a parent's paranoia not their kids. Kids accept everyone unless their parents tell them otherwise.
This a parent's paranoia not their kids. Kids accept everyone unless their parents tell them otherwise.
You don't know many kids. I was a Girl Scout, and I would not have wanted a boy in the troop. Had nothing to do with anything my parents told me and doesn't mean I hate men or boys. How do you think these groups got started anyway? It's natural for people--esp. children and adolescents--to crave their own spaces for development among similar individuals. They deserve that without one person trying to ruin it.
19th century??? The idea that little girls who think they're boys (and vice versa) are transgender and not going through a phase, and that their fantasy identities must be recognized by all societal institutions, didn't become a thing until about 2015. Nobody would have taken that seriously even 3 years ago.
Did you not mean what you said?
Their sexual identities are not fantasies; they are just as real as whatever your own sexual identity is. For many it is not a "phase" and does not ever change, no matter how hard the individual tries. Many do try, even marrying and having children, only to eventually discover that all the trying does not change who they are.
What needs to change is the idea that transgendered people are dangerous. They are not. They just want to live their lives as the gender their brains tell them they are.
Yes, and I'm clueless as to how you could read it twice and still completely misunderstand.
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Their sexual identities are not fantasies
Sure they are. Little kids often fantasize and imagine themselves to be things they aren't. It isn't unusual in the least.
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For many it is not a "phase" and does not ever change
And for many it is, and it does change. And we hope it does don't we? It almost seems like people are rooting for this poor kid's gender dysphoria to be permanent.
Yes, and I'm clueless as to how you could read it twice and still completely misunderstand. Sure they are. Little kids often fantasize and imagine themselves to be things they aren't. It isn't unusual in the least.
And for many it is, and it does change. And we hope it does don't we? It almost seems like people are rooting for this poor kid's gender dysphoria to be permanent.
"Research suggest that children who are persistent, consistent, and insistent about their gender identity are the ones who are most likely to become transgender adults."
"There is no way to predict how a child will end up identifying him or herself later in life. This uncertainty is one of the hardest things about parenting a gender non-conforming child. It is important for parents to make their home a place where their child feels safe and loved unconditionally. Research suggests that gender is something we are born with; it can't be changed by any interventions. It is critically important that children feel loved and accepted for who they are."
No matter how icky the idea of transgender is to you, there will be no harm to another child to allow the child in the OP to participate in Boy Scout activities, whether it is a "phase" for him or not.
Prescription hormones are medicine, and they do lead to increased contentment.
Two famous young transgender people died within weeks of each other..The Lady Cablis, and the Arquette sibling. I believe the hormone therapy is harmful in the long run.
She isn't a "boy born as a girl". She's a girl. Females don't belong in the Boy Scouts.
We're already members of the Boy Scouts. The Exploring, Venturing, and Sea Scouting programs are fully co-educational, and women make up a third of all registered leaders. If you've ever attended a large annual Scout Show, you'd likely be stunned at the number of young women in dark green Venturing uniforms. Likewise, young women make up a large portion of the staff at high adventure and summer camps across the country. We backpack Philmont, paddle the Northern Tier, and sail Sea Base; we hone our leadership skills through NYLT and NAYLE; and when we grow into adult women, we can and do lead packs, troops, and crews. Women have been members of the Boy Scouts of America for a very long time. You just weren't aware of it.
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Read my post again.
