Respect To Them Both!

[RATTER15]

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Many parents could learn so much!

[Sqad]

\\\\Many parents could learn so much!\\\\

Absolutely. A wonderful and a most appropriate Christmas Day post.

Thank you RATTER.

[Svejk]

Load of botox.

[ChillDoubt]

'Assigned female at birth' and 'gender-neutral may be all very 21st century but to me their whole familial situation makes the Addams Family look entirely normal.

[Sqad]

Chilli...LOL

[jno]

their support is valuable, but I wonder if having your sexual identity publicised when you're barely walking is going to be uncomfortable. Kids shouldn't have to grow up in public.

[NoMercy]

Assigned female? Was the kid a hermaphrodite?

I agree with Chill on this one.

[jim360]

It's about respect, really. And everyone deserves that. It's possibly just a phase, but you should still respect it while it lasts. And if it turns out not to be a phase, but something real, then ...

[RATTER15]

jno, I do agree, but I assume that the child is aware of the publicity and is happy to go along with it, either way, I think I would have kept it out of the public eye myself until, he/she is a little older.

[RATTER15]

Clearly the child was born female but has chosen to live her life as a male and the family are right in supporting this decision. She may may change again as she matures, who knows.

I know a post op trensexual female and a pre op transexual female very well and I am aware of what a very difficult life it can be when you are looked upon as freaks and when you dont have the support of their families.

Good luck to John whatever path she/he chooses.

[ChillDoubt]

To be honest, at the age of 8 I didn't really care, I just wanted to be Joe 90.
Today, kids want to be metro-sexual and anything out of the ordinary I guess. Either way, it all appears very pretentious.
Cynical? Moi?

[Prudie]

If you respect it then not plastering in the press would help. I don't know why but I don't warm to that woman at all. Too weird for me.

[ummmm]

My parenting is 'leave them be and support their choices'

As long as they have manners and respect for others....my job, as a parent, is done.

(I know guiding your children never ends)

[RATTER15]

Exactly ummmm!

[Cloverjo]

She's just a girl who wants to be a boy. Like George in the Famous Five. I don't see what all the fuss is about.

[jno]

Ratter, I would have thought 8 is way too young to assume consent on the part of kids to anything; what option do they have? I'm pleased they're supporting him but I don't think making him a poster child for a cause is necessarily going to turn out well.

[douglas9401]

Without the Brad and Angelina show she'd just be a tomboy.

[RATTER15]

jno, I agree, thats is why a said //either way, I think I would have kept it out of the public eye myself until, he/she is a little older.//

My comment was more about that her parents are supporting her through this and will hopefully continue to do so.

[RATTER15]

Douglas, //Without the Brad and Angelina show she'd just be a tomboy.// Maybe!

but many find they really want to be males and continue to live their lives that way others grow into perfectly "normal" females.

[jno]

I think I'd have kept them out of the limelight forever, until they're old enough to live their own lives; but I suppose this is difficult when you're famous yourself. UK law protects children in this way, but I'm not sure that's true everywhere. Good luck to them all, anyway; better to acknowledge the problem than to grow up in the closet.

[RATTER15]

Is it a problem jno? I dont think it is, well lets hope not.