Transgender 6-year-old Wins Right To Use Girls’ Bathroom At Colorado

[zabbazooey]

Story here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/24/transgender-6-year-old-wins-right-to-use-girls-bathroom-at-colorado-school/

 

I'm all for equality, but how does a 6 year old have a concept of transgender sexuality since they were only 18 months old?

 

I am interested to see what PM says :)

[Gabriela]

I say: Homeschooling Rulez.

 

[dUSt! Put the props back on, cuz this post is Crazy Dope, yo!]

Edited June 26, 2013 by curiousing

[Basilisa Marie]

If the kid doesn't, the parents certainly do.   

 

I think it'd be different if the kid was a lot older, or intersex.  Actually, it'd probably be a lot easier to understand if the kid was intersex.  I have a very, very hard time wrapping my brain around the idea that a kid so young knows with such certainty that he's a girl in a boy's body since he was a baby.  It doesn't make sense.  Kids are barely even conscious that boys and girls have different parts at that age.  

[Spem in alium]

It seems very strange to me that a child that young would be able to consciously identify with a sexuality. It makes me think the parents have some kind of motive, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Also, I think saying that the child will now be treated "equally" and that discrimination is bad is an incorrect statement. People aren't equal. It's a common and sadly false assumption that all discrimination is bad. There have to be some elements of discrimination in place for society to exist the way it does. Having separate bathrooms for girls and boys is just one example of discrimination serving a positive purpose.

 

When I was working at a transitional home for ex-cons last year, one of the guys I served was transgender and identified as a woman. He was also in the process of having hormone replacement therapy and establishing a support group for transgender individuals. This home was solely for men, and not once did I hear him complaining about unfair or unequal treatment. It was interesting for me back then, and in light of this story it's even more interesting now. I suppose people approach the issue in different ways.

 

[beatitude]

What troubles me is that the parents identified things like the child choosing a pink blanket as 'proof' that he is really female. Pink does not equal female. Playing with dolls does not equal female. This concept of gender is rooted in the idea that certain toys are for girls and certain colours are for boys and any child who doesn't fall in with the colour scheme or the way toy stores are organised must really be the opposite sex.

 

Let him have a pink blanket. Colours are for everyone. Let him play with whatever toys he finds interesting and fun. It shouldn't matter one bit if a six-year-old boy wants to play at cooking while a six-year-old girl wants to play at being a carpenter. It's all creativity and learning.

[Oremoose]

It seems very strange to me that a child that young would be able to consciously identify with a sexuality. It makes me think the parents have some kind of motive, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Also, I think saying that the child will now be treated "equally" and that discrimination is bad is an incorrect statement. People aren't equal. It's a common and sadly false assumption that all discrimination is bad. There have to be some elements of discrimination in place for society to exist the way it does. Having separate bathrooms for girls and boys is just one example of discrimination serving a positive purpose.

 

When I was working at a transitional home for ex-cons last year, one of the guys I served was transgender and identified as a woman. He was also in the process of having hormone replacement therapy and establishing a support group for transgender individuals. This home was solely for men, and not once did I hear him complaining about unfair or unequal treatment. It was interesting for me back then, and in light of this story it's even more interesting now. I suppose people approach the issue in different ways.

 

 

help me understand the bolded statement.

 

I understand the message that not one is the same, that there are differences between people (from color to gender to abilities etc.). 

 

But all men (i.e. mankind) are created equal. that no man or woman is greater then another. 

 

So my brain is frazzled as it is trying to agree with your post but reject it at the same time.

[Tufsoles]

I do agree with you all about how a young child know that they are transgender or know about their own sexaulity.  I did graduate from that particular school district that this controversy happened in. I can say this: The Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8, The adminstration is extremely conservative but the parents and quite a few of the teachers(not all but a good number) are More liberal and open minded to situations like this one.

[CatholicsAreKewl]

Hmm, wouldn't it be weirder to have the transgender 6 year old still go to the boys restroom?

[Seven77]

I sense demented social experimenting hippie parents... what a revolting stench.

[God the Father]

help me understand the bolded statement.

 

I understand the message that not one is the same, that there are differences between people (from color to gender to abilities etc.). 

 

But all men (i.e. mankind) are created equal. that no man or woman is greater then another. 

 

So my brain is frazzled as it is trying to agree with your post but reject it at the same time.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve

[GeorgiiMichael]

help me understand the bolded statement.

 

I understand the message that not one is the same, that there are differences between people (from color to gender to abilities etc.). 

 

But all men (i.e. mankind) are created equal. that no man or woman is greater then another. 

 

So my brain is frazzled as it is trying to agree with your post but reject it at the same time.

 

All people have equal dignity before the Lord.

 

But priest=/=layperson, monk=/=nun, husband=/=wife because these people, despite being equal in dignity, have different ontological purposes.

[Oremoose]

All people have equal dignity before the Lord.

 

But priest=/=layperson, monk=/=nun, husband=/=wife because these people, despite being equal in dignity, have different ontological purposes.

 

ooohhh i get it now!

 

thanks.

[nikita92]

I had a problem with "LABLED" a boy at birth part