| Was the school right to announce a 12yo student's sex change?
Posted: 9/19/2009 4:12:04 PM | When I was doing a Drug course, about 4 years ago, not long after I was clean, the tutor was a Transexual, but we only found out after we had passed the course. I must say, I never once thought she used to be a man. Just thought she was an ugly ****, with weird hair.
IMO the school is wrong, because we all know what schoolkids are like for bullying. | |
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| Was the school right to announce a 12yo student's sex change?
Posted: 9/21/2009 12:11:04 AM |
So, do you think the school was right to make this announcement, or do you think it's political correctness gone amok? Could they have dealt with the situation another way?
I would imagine the school was liaising closely with the boys parents and acting on behalf of their wishes in calling this assembly especially if their was a history of bullying before.
Besides isn't sex education taught in schools these days anyway?
How do you think you'd feel if your child said he/she felt "trapped" in his/her own body and wanted a sex change before puberty kicked in? Would you be prepared to face the challenges?
I believe kids should be encouraged to eat their meat and two veg........ not have them removed !!! | |
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| Was the school right to announce a 12yo student's sex change?
Posted: 9/21/2009 12:22:03 AM | | it's just wrong ... what right does the school have to disclose the information without the parents consent .... surely there must be a case for the parents to take the school to court for damages ... how can this child now go to school anywhere in this country without being a target for bullies. | |
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| Was the school right to announce a 12yo student's sex change?
Posted: 9/21/2009 1:21:34 AM |
Maybe its the only way britain can get future medals in the olympics?
I reckon it could be to give the next generation of males more choice where females are concerned too. On the brightside... I suppose a 'cut n slit' is better than a 'tuck n wiggle'  | |
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| Was the school right to announce a 12yo student's sex change?
Posted: 10/15/2009 5:44:09 AM | I found this thread after seeing an advert for a documentary to be shown about Joey, from Arizona AGED 8!!!! ..is being given a sex change to become Josie.
I have no problem with adults who make this decision, but at the age of 8, what from within would tell a boy that he's really a girl???
I know that sexuality is not directly the same as gender orientation, but I find it difficult to see that before puberty a child could understand what they are saying.
Personally, I suspect that it's an emotional reaction to external factors in their lives, though since I've never met such a child I know I could only be guessing.
It feels more appropriate for the child's upbringing and emotional state to be challenged via therapy and for their hormone levels/physical health to be checked rather than to take such a drastic course of action which would have to be viewed as irreversible when they have so much to learn about themselves still.
Yet I can also see how the change might be more effective if done early. I feel quite uncomfortable about the child's welfare, I know this is partly to do with society and my own upbringing, but I feel it is also common sense and sensitivity, what does everyone else think?
FYI;
Her family, from Arizona, tell their story as part of a new Channel 4 Bodyshock documentary to be shown next week.
Her mother Venessia, 42, said: "As a toddler she wrapped up her army figures and rocked them like a baby.
"As she started to talk, she'd say, 'I'm a girl'. We used to correct her and say, 'No you're a boy'.
"By the time she was four she was insisting, 'No, I really am a girl'."
Her father Joseph, an engineer in the United States Air Force, said: "I had mourned the loss of my son. When I came to terms with it, I knew I had gained a daughter."
The girl has been educated at home in Arizona after the family suffered taunts outside the military base school overseas.
Josie will be given drugs to prevent male adolescence and, at 12, get female hormones. | |
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| Was the school right to announce a 12yo student's sex change?
Posted: 10/21/2009 11:00:29 AM | Personally I feel the school had no right to say anything at all. This childs choices are exactly that, his choices. Im pretty sure his parents haven't taken the decision to allow their child to undergo gender reassignment lightly. The school should have shown some compassion and allowed this child to settle into his new life without turning him into a freakshow target for the school bullies, it doesn't take any real intelligence to know children pick on those they deem different, they can be cruel as well as cute, and by holding this assembly the school may as well have sold tickets for the chance to pick on him first!
Poor kid , heres hoping it all works out for him in the end. | |
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| Was the school right to announce a 12yo student's sex change?
Posted: 10/21/2009 11:07:10 AM | well.. it isn't really a sex change because the chromosomes stay the same. But that a side.. it just isn't a "normal" thing to do.. i maintain that people who do wish to have a "sex" change, must have some deep routed psychological issues.. because "normal" peope just don't do that.
of course, i can hear the sirens of the PC brigade ranting and raving that i can't say that..even though i am entitled to my oppinion... and that i should only say nice things because it makes baby jesus cry if some one gets offended =/ | |
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| Was the school right to announce a 12yo student's sex change?
Posted: 10/21/2009 11:17:47 AM | I watched the program on Channel 4 the other night on this subject and I found it really interesting.
The most alarming fact that was raised was that most children with gender dysphoria grow out of it...........
Which backs up my initial thoughts that it is usually just a phase and that preparing a child to start going through a sex change is quite simply, wrong.
I don't doubt that there are some children with genuine cases of gender dysphoria and will see it through all the way to the end but a couple of the kids on that program I thought were basically fooling around and could easily have see them growing right out of it....
The one in particular I thought was having a laugh was the little boy who claimed he wants to be a girl but still plays with all his boys toys and has an aversion to pain to the point that he gets alarmed about having to get an injection for the puberty blockers.....his mother was full of crap too and I didn't buy her story about how she walked in on her son in the bathroom and he was about to try and cut his penis off......with a pair of nail clippers........ | |
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