I have a boy cousin that wanted to be wonderwoman when he was a preschooler. Needless to say, he's pretty flaming as an adult. Sometimes its starts pretty young.
i had a friend who has a younger brother that is gay. he said that he knew from early on that he acted like a girl. more of a girl than most girls his age. i think it was about 8-9 when he noticed. But he never dressed like a girl. this is insane.
Actually I was just using that as an example about the dangers of changing you and your kid's life on the basis of a respected doctor's analysis. It's why I quoted the other post about doctors.
Gender is such a useless term. How do we determine gender? I could actually just say I'm a woman, go through the legal process, and walk straight into a women's restroom. There are people who switch genders and go back just as there are people who change their view on their own sexuality. Biological sex is the only thing that should matter if we are going to make any distinction at all. ...and I have a boy cousin that played with my aunts wigs and dresses when he was about 5. Now he's a huge (heterosexual) player and feels very much like a man. Also, I have a 4 year old niece that is really girly, she wears dresses all the time and loves playing with dolls. She has a female cousin that is about the same age and is more of a tomboy. The difference between the two seems to have a great deal to do with how they were raised. My mother mostly takes care of my niece while my male cousin has full custody of his daughter and they wrestle around all the time and she's picked up a lot from him. They played with whatever type of toys they were groomed to like from babies on. Sometimes a 5 year old will refuse to eat their broccoli, maybe they'll grow to never really like broccoli. But, maybe not.
Just because people have been posting that this happens in "eastern cultures" doesn't mean that's true. there's exceptions in every culture, it doesn't mean that's the norm.
But you wouldn't be a woman, you would be a man pretending to be a woman. This girl is a girl, with male sex organs. There are thousands of people in the world with both male and female genitalia, and these people relate to a specific gender from day one. Gender is one of the most useful terms ever invented. It is extremely offensive to relate gender with "eating broccoli". Absurdity... Just like the idiots that say homosexuality is learned.
I agree with the first sentence, you may be right on the second but that shouldn't be so important. see below That's not necessarily true. Some relate to one. There are some that relate to both. Some have changed gender more than once. There is a similar issue with sexuality. Gender is socially and culturally dependent. What we consider feminine may not be so in another culture. My government shouldn't keep track of such a useless thing and it should not be used as a major factor for determining anything of value. Unless I'm in a relationship with someone, I don't care what gender or sexuality they are. It should not affect me. Now, if you want to ask someone their gender, that's your prerogative. I am not relating gender to broccoli. That would be absurd. I am putting a child's primitive mind in perspective. They cannot make the smallest of decisions. They also can't make the major decision of publicly appearing as a gender opposite their biological sex without the possibility of major social and sociological implications.
We also have people who have mental diseases that makes them want to cut off an arm or leg. They are also extremely miserable and can't bear to live with the unwanted appendage. Do we cater to them as well?
