Youngest Sex Change in History of History. How a Tim...Became a Kim

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Psychiatrists treating her say she was an ‘exceptional case – a person clearly in the wrong body’, even though the decision to grant her wishes when she was so young is still the subject of intense debate.

That in itself is exceptional about this case. From what I understand, most of these cases are treated as mental illness, and the treatment is done by the same token.

It makes me wonder by what criteria they're judging her to be different.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Soluzar

Let me put it to you like this. You are very much a mother. It's such an intrinsic part of you that it's hard to imagine what you'd be like without the maternal side. That's a feminine quality, of course. So wouldn't you accept that there's such a thing as masculine and feminine personalities.

There's an interesting side to this argument that I hadn't considered until now. Most modern feminists would open a dialogue by trying to dissuade you of the notion that there is an internal, intrinsic quality of motherhood in any woman.

It makes me question whether this child is considering her options in the same way you do. (Ergo, I feel sentimental or maternal in some way, therefore I must be a girl.)

And that just brings me back to the psychiatrists she saw and their "grading criteria," so to speak.

There's nowhere I can't reach.