TirithRR wrote:
When I was a young boy, I got my mother to buy me barbie dolls so I could play with the neighbors.
I'm still a guy today, like I was back then (no gender confusion here). It's just that the only children my age were girls, and when I played with them, or went over to their house, they all had barbies to play with, and I didn't have anything. I just needed to fit in with my peers.
My first real friend was a tomboy, she would play with snakes and spiders outside with me, and didn't mind playing in the dirt. She grew up to be a very cute, mentally stable, girl.
I don't see the problem with not adhering to gender roles as kids.
I think the problem with many people who go through this whole transgender thing is they are forced by their parents, or society, to feel that if they don't like sports, then they cannot be male, if they don't like dressing up and playing with dolls then they can't be female. If they were just allowed to be who they are, and not treated like a strange little boy or girl, then they'd realize they can do these things and still be their biological gender.
The mental problems come when they are forced to feel like what they are doing is wrong. Then they somehow think that having breasts will fix their problems, or having a ***** will make them feel better about themselves. When really all they need is to realize that "Hey, I'm a person, I can like what ever I want to like."
I think that's a very simple way to look at it, and not at all what's going on behind the scenes.
Let's look at this case, for instance. I think it's more than obvious that these parents have no problem with their little boy playing with things that little girls usually play with. I don't think they are telling their kid that if you don't like sports, you're not a boy. They seem pretty fu
cking open-minded here.
There is a big difference between playing with Barbies and feeling like you're a little girl on the inside. When you asked your mother to buy you Barbies, were you praying every night that god would fix you? That your insides would match your outsides? That you wanted to be called a girl, because "boy" doesn't sound right?
I think it's sad that you see this child who has a documented medical condition, and you're saying, "Meh, it's the parents fault. All their fault. They are obviously making the kid feel this way."
Personally, I applaud these parents for embracing their child and her needs instead of stifling them and causing her to have mental issues later in life.
