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Originally Posted by Rococo
This just begs the question. In most of these cases, the child has been expressing a desire to be treated as the opposite gender for a consistent period of years, even by the age of 7. In other words, I don't think there are many, if any, parents that hear a request for toe polish from their four-year old son on Sunday, and then run to the preschool on Monday and demand that their kid be treated as a girl.
For instance, the child I described in my earlier post began at age 4 to consistently express a preference for being treated as a girl. What exactly does it mean to "let that kid have a childhood first"?
theres levels to this though
-letting the child choose how they present themselves
-letting the child choose and change their identity
-the previous plus telling everyone else they are the opposite sex and to go along with it
- hormonal and/or surgical intervention that will have permanent and unknown/poorly understood impacts on their development
-allowing the child, parents, and physicians to sterilize and perform other irreversible changes when it is known there is a significant amount of regret and reversal happening
Arguing a 7 year old boy can choose to wear dresses and that's fine is a long ways away from chemically sterilizing them