I have to dig out the study but the vast majority of kids who claim to be of the opposite gender than their birth assigned ones flip back after a few years.
My bait worked wow you guys wrote a lot of words that i dont care about. Edit: Oh wait you are c/ping like i originally though you were but couldn't' find form were
hi as one of those Evil Misunderstand Transgenders you all seem to be so afraid of referring to id like to say:
anyone claiming the parents forced it on the child should consider that mental abuse rather than "ha ha just bad parenting" in forcing their child into a gender role. otherwise, guess what?
YOU'RE TRANSPHOBIC!
now, you don't want to be transphobic, do you? then maybe shut the hell up and realize hey, not referring to someone what they want to be called is kind of a cruel move! sort of dehumanizing! and you're going but wait i haven't done this then guess what? you're not a part of the problem!
but riley, you may say in anguish, that is totally irrelevant had you just read! oh, then, why does this blanantly transphobic topic exist? why must it be called into question that maybe ignoring what someone idenfites with is kind of cruel? sorry i don't want to go through page of page of more-than-plausible transphobia and just be blunt with you all.
/thread, and also, side note! i knew i was a boy from a very young age. so young it seems as though i was born knowing, while being raised in a totally neutral environment from *my parents*.
first off this is probably the worst site to even mention anything even close to controversial on. secondly i am still going to post because i can't help myself....
I had to do a paper on transgender issues last semester. One of them being that sometimes parents can be too open-minded to the point where they will stick a label onto their child. I wouldn't necessarily call this "bad parenting", it's hard to be a perfect parent. They could be doing this to just try and do anything to help their child come to terms with who they are, and at an early age if they believe that is possible. And if they are truly good parents if the child makes up/changes their mind about their gender or sexuality or religious preference or whatever then they will support them in that too. It's really tricky to discern whether or not a 6 year old's feelings about themselves can really be taken seriously or not. Mind you sometimes people go through half of their lives until they realize that they want to be a different gender (and that is a fully developed brain).
The question really isn't about whether the parents can label their child like that or if the child's feelings are at all serious. The question is "Is the teacher justified", and no I don't think they are. She said it herself, a lot of her refusal was based on her beliefs, if anything she could have talked to the parents about it, and tried to understand.
