Comments on: Regendering your child

By: Tila Nguyen Pic

Tila Nguyen Pic — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:29:54 +0000

Tila Nguyen Pic

Man i love reading your blog, interesting posts !

By: snow

snow — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:39:26 +0000

Yikes, I find this to be treading dangerous waters. While I cannot imagine being in that situation, I also cannot imagine choosing to delay puberty. Generally, I don’t believe in artificially disrupting things that happen naturally. We don’t know what kind of problems could be caused by hormone blockers later in life, just in terms of general health.

By: franksabunch

franksabunch — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:31:23 +0000

Many children believe that they’ve been born to the wrong parents. Are we to let them choose another couple to be their parents? Many children believe they should be bigger and stronger. Should we let parents give them HGH and anabolic steroids?

Personally, I find it disturbing that parents would consider regendering a child so young or delaying puberty just to take more time to think about it. Let the child grow up and decide for himself when he turns 18 what he wants to do. This reminds me of the case of the family who had their developmentally disabled child cut by surgeons and given hormones so that she would remain a manageable size. Interestingly enough, the doctor who was involved in that case committed suicide.

By: MoOgooGuypAN

MoOgooGuypAN — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:35:59 +0000

I’ve always been told to be happy just to have a healthy baby. I’m sure those parents who have “special needs” children would much rather trade that “special need’ for gender confusion. In this new time, gender will be a trait placed a lot lower on the list of importance to people due to media and such…look at Tila Tequilla’s show.

By: JuSaMee

JuSaMee — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:18:09 +0000

i agree with munch on this…i just don’t buy it that 2 year olds know they are in the wrong genders body. i mean they don’t even know what they want to wear or eat. by allowing children to grow in age, but not in puberty seems so off the wall weird to me. i mean, how are they going to feel at age 14 or 15 with the body of a 5 year old, just taller? i don’t know…maybe these doctors or scientist should work on more helpful things, like alternate fuel sources or a cure for cancer or diabetes???

By: munch

munch — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:29:39 +0000

wow Tree that is a STRANGE thing to do! how old is their son anyway? i’m guessing he has to be very close to puberty age if they’re sticking him with hormone blockers every month….until what, he’s old enough to decide which he wants to be? i also don’t get it when people say that they “knew from the age of 2…” that they were gay/transgender i mean, at that age does a child even have the cognizance to understand “hmm i like other girls” or “being a boy just doesn’t feel right” because honestly, i can barely remember late elementary school days let alone my toddler years! besides at that age boys play with dolls, girls will throw a ball & pull ribbons off their hair but it doesn’t mean (to me anyway) that they have a gender disorder.
no knock on those who are in that sort of situation, but i just think that parents should accept the blessing of a child and love it unconditionally. what they decide to do when they are adults and FULLY understand what the outcome of their decisions will be should be something held off till adulthood. i sure hope that the hormone blockers don’t have any long-term side effects just in case the child decides to stay “as-is”