Girls Trip.

[Just-Jude]

Is dressing up an 8 year old transgender boy as a girl, only going to solve the issue for a short time? Would it be better to have a sex change operation now, or later in life?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/it-made-sick-wear-boys-11329175

[Islay]

I don't think this child is an Hermaphrodite ( a person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics)
The child is Transgender which is different!

[jennyjoan]

Islay I do know the difference between hermaphrodite and transgender. I read a lot.

[murraymints]

I don't think even "transgender " can be applied to one so young..it's dressing up .. most children do it... it's playing houses whatever..give it time... my nephew would not go anywhere without his doll /pram/ an old handbag with bling in...dress up in mum's stuff etc... all forgotten after it got boring... certainly no medical intervention

[Islay]

Jenny obviously you don't or else you would not have said
//Is it any wrong for the hermaprodite child - what way can that child be brought up. //

[Mamyalynne]

I think the Hermaphrodite comment was an aside, not about the child in the article.

Time will tell for young Tegan.

[Islay]

OK Mamyalynne if you say so!

[Mamyalynne]

Nothing is ok because I say so, please don't do that.

[jennyjoan]

Jaysus - no fighting please. Islay, Mamy is correct it was an aside post - nothing to do with the transgender child.

My sister entertains a little boy and his sista every weekend when they visit their GaSam - boy absolutely adores pink, doll's houses, ballet slippers etc etc. The loveliest sweetest and brainiest 6 year old I have encountered.

as Murray says - at that age it is only dressing-up time.

[DTCwordfan]

Scans would tell if she was a hermaphrodite......probably a transgender but will need to develop and work with the specialists to bring through the feminine side with hormones and suppress the testerone side - and then make the decision to operate somewhere around puberty and into the teenage years....there are no hard fast rules and a lot of it is determined by the mind, hence two psychs needed for sign off prior to any consideration of reassignment surgery (or major intermediate stages like having an orchiectomy).

[Islay]

No one is fighting JJ please don't say there is - I am happy to accept Mamya explaination on your behalf even if I think it is ****!
Why suddenly bring something in that has nothing to do with the story being discussed - there isn't - I think you got confused - which is OK by the way but now you are trying to cover it up!
By the way Mamya and I go way back and I would never argue with her for all the tea in china!

[DTCwordfan]

from what we are being told, just let her be a gal and live as one.....

[jennyjoan]

Islay I don't need anybody to explain on behalf of myself - I can do that very well for myself.

And as for **** - you can produce some of that for yourself. Thank you very much

[Islay]

exactly dtc

[Mamyalynne]

This is utterly ridiculous.

[jennyjoan]

btw
using your sentence of " but now you are trying to cover it up" - I don't cover up cos I tell it the way I see it.

[pastafreak]

Why oh why are do many threads going pear shaped? Everyone seems ( more than )a bit tetchy lately.