Transgender at five

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By Petula Dvorak, Published: May 19

Kathryn wanted pants. And short hair. Then trucks and swords.

Her parents, Jean and Stephen, were fine with their toddler’s embrace of all things boy. They’ve both been school teachers and coaches in Maryland and are pretty immune to the quirky stuff that kids do.

But it kept getting more intense, all this boyishness from their younger daughter. She began to argue vehemently — as only a tantrum-prone toddler can — that she was not a girl.

“I am a boy,” the child insisted, at just 2 years old.

And that made Jean uneasy. It was weird.

“I am a boy” became a constant theme in struggles over clothing, bathing, swimming, eating, playing, breathing.

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[William769]

1. Out of the mouths of babes.

[TeeYiYi]

2. k+r

TYY

[JDPriestly]

3. I have a friend whose son wanted to be a girl and demonstrated it by wearing

his sisters' clothes as often as possible.

He is now a she.

On the other hand, many girls like "boys toys" and like to wear pants but also want frills and lace and are definitely girls.

My view is: don't censor either way. Let a girl play with "boys' toys." Who says they are "boys toys" anyway. I don't really believe in "boys toys" nor in "girls toys."

Girls become engineers, mathematicians, construction workers, farmers, gardeners, truck drivers, car mechanics, etc.

And boys become chefs and tailors and restaurant owners and other things that were traditionally women's work.

Has nothing to do with gender. Gender is innate. It is sexual in nature and will sort itself out in puberty. Sexual preference and toys preferences are not the same thing -- not at all.

[Zorra]

4. I believe that this is more common than is known.

Many parents are not accepting of the fact that their 2 year old is trans, and they're not about to broadcast it.

Imagine the dilemma of a trans child born RW fundy parents.