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Youngest Sex Change in History of History. How a Tim...Became a Kim
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,248196,00.html
Shocking, what do you think? Jam it back in, in the dark. |
I'd like to know why s/he gets to just skip two years.
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Wow, that's...wow. I guess if the parents are okay with it and if it was a 'clear-cut case' as determined by psychiatric professionals, that's fine. Just seems pretty weird to me.
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I was speaking idiomatically. |
I don't believe that any 12 or 14 year old could be that sure about their sexuality. I would question a decision like that even if the child were 18 or 19.
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I'm tempted to make a Sir VG joke here, but instead I'll just go with Alice. Shit, I doubt anyone really knows who they are at age 20, let alone 12.
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It makes me wonder by what criteria they're judging her to be different. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
I think that if he/she feels he is a girl, then so be it. Especially when the confidence of the child is strong for such a long time. This would probably give Kim more confidence in the future and not break her spirit.
Western Society has always tried to clear cut gender. If it isn't one, it has to be the other... and I guess one of the ways they can do that is through stuff like this. Jam it back in, in the dark. |
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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. Now what if you're the wrong one to match your body? I think it might be much more clear (to you at least) if you feel as though you're a girl in a boy's body at age 14. I'd agree that few people are certain of their sexuality at such an early age, but Kim still has free choice of sexuality. She seems to be hetero right now. She could easily switch. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?
Last edited by Soluzar; Feb 7, 2007 at 03:29 PM.
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Well maybe it's better for her to change at a younger age. At least she'll be able to adapt fully before she becomes an adult.
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I just finished studying transgender in my Gender class... we read a book called She's not There by Jennifer (formally James) Boylan. Great book. (S)he realized that (s)he was a woman at an even younger age (around... 6?), but didnt get the sex change until her 40s.
Anyways, this is not really different from hermaphrodites... most parents dont choose the gender of the child at birth, the doctors recommend they wait until age 13 or so, and then the child chooses for themselves. Gender isnt all horomones... it's a forced thing in society today. Girls are looked at to play with dolls and are considered tomboys if they play lots of sports or don't mind getting down and dirty. Not a bad thing by society's standard. Boys, on the other hand, are told to be tough, play sports and get into trouble, but looked at as 'sissies' if they play with dolls. Automatically, we're seeing being masculine as a better thing than being feminine. So if the boy honestly felt he was a girl (which is totally possible at that age), why face the cruelities of being looked at as a wimp/sissy or going through school being considered a 'freak' or being called a 'fag', when he can become what he naturally feels? After the insight this one book has provided me, I totally think this is reasonable. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
I thought that sexual identity could sometimes develop differently than one's physical sex. As in, while in the uterus. I also thought that the ability of pyschologists to "treat" misaligned gender identities was so pathetic that the moral question was raised that if you couldn't make the mind match the body, shouldn't you at least match the body to the mind? I suppose the underlying argument is that the duty of health-care is to quality of life.
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I'd like to know what causes homosexuals/bisexuals. It's probably something genetic or in-utero hormone related. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
Jam it back in, in the dark. |
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Hey, maybe you should try that thing Chie was talking about.
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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. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
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I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
A little disturbing. I agree with Alice that a person that young is mentally capable of making such a drastic decision. The parent's must be a bit weirded out, for sure. I think that 21+ is the age to even begin considering about sex-change.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
Now that I have more time to think about this...
Children learn behavior by imitation. Especially 2-year-olds. To say that someone is born to think like a woman or a man, especially in the early stages of life, is patently absurd. Females aren't born to like Barbie or dress-up. Nor are men born to like sports and math(or whatever are the popular stereotypes). Especially at such an early age. Many of the very things which identify men and women as they are, in our world, are due to social development which characterizes either gender this way. However, kids have no conception of this, and so they may very likely just dabble in the activities that they are exposed to the most. The fact that this boy's parents were so negligent as to let him get away with thinking that he was meant to be a girl, rather than directly addressing him with the reality of who he is, when they had a chance, is practically abuse. Now, unfortunately, irreparable damage has probably been done to him, and perhaps the only option that will grant him any emotional satisfaction is self-mutilation. Just wait for the artificial-hormone induced cancer to kick in. >_> What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
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I used to think Polly Pocket toys were kinda cool as a kid. I mean the whole fold up clamshell design of the house with the tiny little hot tubs, so cute, you could put one leg of a GI Joe in there then close it to cause a medical emergency. They had the boys version, the Mighty Max command center things, but a shitty fold up clam cave is no match for a clam house. You can't fold a fucking cave, what is this. And the hot tub was replaced with a kung fu gun rack training area or something.
It was a sign. For sure. I should have had a sex change right there and then. Infernal Monkey into Infernal Gertrude McDress Face. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
The real question is not whether you liked "girly things" but whether or not that made you feel like a girl. Did you feel closer kinship to other girls than to boys? Did you desire to occupy what society designates as female gender roles?
I'm guessing not. Jam it back in, in the dark. |