This PC crap needs to end. 1. These parents are forcing THEIR views/desires onto a child and putting the child at risk. Time to start taking children away from people that cannot function as proper parents. It's the child who gets to suffer for narcissism of the parents here. ENOUGH
The mom wants a girl, the dad is bi-sexual and their confusion could potentially screw this little boy up. At this age, the little girls and boys don't even care, its all the parents but I side with the school on their call. It's funny how the mom said... "we are confused" no duh!
This is sad because of the child being outed on national TV.. This child will now be bullied & talked about for a very long time. I don't have a problem with the child choosing to be a girl, with that said, the child is a BOY not a girl and I can understand where other girls may feel uncomfortable with a BOY who dresses like a girl going in the same restroom as them. I could understand it if maybe the child had both parts, but that is not the case. It is not the other children's fault that this boy wants to be a girl and that the parents are allowing it. I mean come on, boys play with dolls and girls play with trucks, but as a parent I would actually think that at this child's age regardless if the child wants to wear a dress that you should dress the child as what he is and that is a boy. One can't expect everyone to accept this child the way that he is being raised so therefore to me he should be going to the boys restroom, not the girls. If he don't want to go to the boys restroom because they boys are being mean to him then what does that tell you as a parent???? Maybe that you are the parent and you had a son and he should be acting and looking like it at this age. As the child gets older and becomes whoever he is then that is fine but at this point IMO I think that the parents are completely nuts. And no, I have no problem with gay people at all for I have a deceased brother who was gay, several other family members who are gay and I have tons of gay friends.... That is not the point to this at all... It's about a young child who is a boy yet dresses as a girl and goes to the girls restrooms instead of the boys. Just because he dresses that way does not mean he wants to be a girl and doesn't have the male tendency to lust after girls. J/S
When I was 2-4 I apparently used to love to put on my sisters dresses and play with her dolls. My parents didn't care but they also didn't promote it buying me dresses of my own, dolls of my own. By the time I was 5 the behavioral stopped and I was in line with the societal norm of of dressing like a boy, playing with cowboys and indians and the like. I grew up normal, doing boy stuff.. got married, have kids and am what most people consider highly successful in business.
My son as a toddler liked to play with his sisters dolls and put on her ballet tutu's. Everyone had a good laugh about it but again we didn't buy him his own. I can't imagine doing that to him and it's sickening that these people are doing that to their own son.
I don't care if the boy wants to wear the dress. But the hundreds of girls in the school deserve to go to the GIRLS bathroom. If it's OK for this BOY to go to the girls bathroom then you'll have to make it OK for all the girls to go to the boys bathrooms and vice versa. What if my 6 year old told me that he felt like he was a teacher, deep down, he was no longer a 6 year old, but a grown up... a teacher. Does he get to use the faculty bathroom and start teaching the class now? Or maybe he feels like he's the school nurse and he can start distributing meds?
They said it right, the parents did. "They" are totally confused. That child has no idea at that age if he or she wants to become a he or she. No earthly idea at all and this is an abuse of the law against discrimination against transgender.
Wow, people really are clueless, as a nurse I have seen a lot of things that don't always make sense. There are some issues with chromosomes and genetics that can cause children to be born transgender. I highly doubt any parents pushing their child to be transgender, it is hard enough to raise your kids as is let alone when they are distinctly different. Often times a male is born with ambiguous genitals and the doctors in the past will make them into girls. Genetically they are still boys just because you surgically make something look like one part doesn't mean the rest will follow. I have not seen a many cases the opposite way but I would not doubt that it exists. Yes, Homeschooling this child maybe more appropriate to help with the child's psyche. So sad, any way you look at this issue.
AS an open mind mother of 4 non trans gendered adult children.. I am flabbergasted by the close minded attitudes of the majority. If one allows a child to make their own choices in life, as long as the choices are completely legal, WHAT is the issue ? If your daughters play with trucks and play sports and prefer not to wear dresses, are you going to have a complete hissy fit , because that is where their comfort zone is ? If your sons prefer to wear a dress instead of jeans, play with his sisters dolls, or likes the color pink, are you going to force YOUR ideals of what a boy should or should not do , on him ? This is the same fight that most trans gendered have had for many generations... and the reason why a majority of them are afraid to be themselves... because of the shame and stigma that is placed on them by people that THINK ( and I use the term loosly) that they know what is right and wrong. I applauded the parent in this case. THEY know their child better than ANYONE out there. Some are correct that the typical six year old child does not know what the word "trans gendered" means. That is a label that adults have used to described the feelings that one gender has.. that they are meant to be a male instead of a female, or be a female instead of a male. It is a TERM. The six year old in this story only know how SHE FEELS, despite the fact that she has a ***** and not a vagina.
You are obviously a nut job. No parent in their right mind would allow a child to live that way. Why would a loving parent open that door for ridicule and abuse that is certain to come that child's way. I would love to hear what the psychologists have to say about that.
The kid is SIX. He is too young to know this. If, when he's older, he actually feels like he is a girl, fine. I am a girl, born one and still am one. When I was his age, I preferred boy's toys, matchbox cars were what I wanted, not Barbies. I never wore dresses. I played with the boys because they played with the same toys and games that I did. That didn't mean I wanted to be a boy. I also didn't fight to use the boy's bathroom. When I got a bit older I started to prefer "girly" toys and wanted everything pink. My mom painted my room bubble gum pink. Point is, kids go through phases. You seem to be as confused as these parents. Being a tomboy does not equal transgender. Boys playing with dolls does not equal transgender.
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1. These parents are forcing THEIR views/desires onto a child and putting the child at risk. Time to start taking children away from people that cannot function as proper parents. It's the child who gets to suffer for narcissism of the parents here. ENOUGH
Sick people. Poor little boy.
My son as a toddler liked to play with his sisters dolls and put on her ballet tutu's. Everyone had a good laugh about it but again we didn't buy him his own. I can't imagine doing that to him and it's sickening that these people are doing that to their own son.