Dr. Phil today-transgender children

[nervezapper]

Dr. Phil has a secular scientist and a scientist from Focus on the Family. The parents are blasting and arguing with the Focus on the Family guy, I love it!

[Jennifer5]

Dr. Phil has a secular scientist and a scientist from Focus on the Family. The parents are blasting and arguing with the Focus on the Family guy, I love it!

Interesting situation... I personally can't stand either though; don't like Dr. Phil, extreme dislike for FOF.

[Alecto]

It was a little trainwreck-tastic.

[BruceChris]

She practically put herself through law school and medical school, running interference for her kid, and trying to get her son sorted out. He is now a fine young man, in his freshman year at college.

EDIT: No, I don't mean that she literally went thru law and med school, just that she had to know more that the doctors, and the lawyers, to help clear a path for him.

Peace and Love, Bruce Chris

[nervezapper]

She practically put herself through law school and medical school, running interference for her kid, and trying to get her son sorted out. He is now a fine young man, in his freshman year at college.

EDIT: No, I don't mean that she literally went thru law and med school, just that she had to know more that the doctors, and the lawyers, to help clear a path for him.

Peace and Love, Bruce Chris

I really liked that mom. She wasn't some whiney pushy mom, she clearly knows her stuff. I love how she blasted that FOF guy, he didn't stand a chance.

[Ningmom]

Did anyone listen to NPR's reports about a month ago (over two or three days) on children who feel they are another gender? It was so well done. You can find it archived at npr.org. The features focused on two young boys. Both had parents who could clearly see that each boy wanted to be -- or in fact felt he WAS -- a girl. But the parents handled the situation in very different ways. One boy's (girl's) parents took him to several specialists and came to the conclusion that the way he was going to be fully human and fully alive was to be a girl, so they allowed this to happen. And the thing I liked about them was that yes, they were scared, but they knew it was the right thing. And the stories they told were just really funny and endearing as well as full of anxiety...and the child herself was so wonderful.

Well, the second story was the one that forced me to pull the car over and just sob because it was so tragic. This family took their child to some well known specialist in Canada who believes that it's a psychiatric disorder that can be reversed. (Where have we heard THAT line before?) They created a plan in which they would week by week take away their "son's" favorite "girly toys" (my words). There was one little plastic McDonald's fairy doll or something that he (she) just adored, and when it was the week to take it away, the mom found it hidden in the couch cushions. The child did all he (she) could to hold on to these precious toys, which the parents were replacing with trucks and stuff like that. The part that really got to me, though, was when they took away THE COLOR PINK from their child. That's right, friends, the color pink. No more pink markers, no more pink construction paper, no more pink crayons. How on earth can a person be so cruel as to steal a COLOR from another human being? It's like robbing the little child of her only connection to her true being.

I thought of my precious boys and how I would do ANYTHING to help each one become who he truly is. I can't imagine following the guidance of some wacko who condones emotional abuse like this.

I hope everyone gets to listen to it.

Mary Anne

[Petrese]

It is a shame that some parents will do anything, on the auspicious of being for the best interest of the child when in fact it is totally for the parent, what makes them comfortable. Unfortunately they believe it is out of ‘Love’. The kid will likely grow up: unhappy, suicidal, resentful, or a combination. In any event the child will eventually transition if she survives her upbringing.

It is also not surprising that these parents are doing this, when you consider that some medical professionals are proponents of this type of ‘treatment’. Many parents and family members disown the transsexual when they do come out and transition in later life. They love their kid so much that they throw them away? yeah right.