I'll probably get a few down votes for this but oh well...
I don't think a child should be labeled as anything because I have extreme doubts as to if they fully understand it, would you label a 6 year old as homosexual? Probably not. Idk it just seems like something that shouldn't be done in my opinion.
Yes, but there is a slight difference. Homosexuals deal with a person's sexuality; who they are attracted to, while being transgender is how they see themselves as a gender; not to do with sexual attraction.
Also, children don't just decide what they want to be, they often just say simple things to their parents. I watched a documentary about this last year and it talked about how transgender children often have tantrums or say certain to their parents about how they want to be the opposite gender. They often take the child to a psychologist or doctor and the children are diagnosed as being transgender.
Well when did you know what sex you identify with? I am female by birth, and identify as female. I knew before I was six that I was female. You know pretty well who you are, and perhaps you know who you are best before you can be swayed and persuaded by society.
What I'm saying, is that he doesn't have enough experience to know.
Maybe he simply wants long hair in a funny color, but everyone else decided to tell him that was feminine? Maybe, his parents encouraging this will be the CAUSE of any gender identity crisis in the future.
If his parents discouraged it there'd be a good change them having an identity crisis. You don't know the kid, or the parents. I don't think by allowing him to be who he was is exactly forcing him to be a girl. And if they didn't allow him to be who he is there's a really good chance of him being one of the many transgender people that commit suicide.
After reading your comments I agreed with a lot of you had to say, however I did not like the fact the most of you used male pronouns when talking about the kid. I am in no way trying to insult or be mean to you, but in the future I think that you should know that you should pronouns relating to a persons gender identity, so in this case she her and so on.
I'm trying to say is that MOST six-year olds wouldn't know how to identify as anything. I get that there will be exceptions, but you can't assume that anybody will be one.
I really don't think that a six year old should be making decisions about their sexual orientation. When I was that old I didn't even know what that stuff was
Do you know what gender you are? Did you at age three? At age six? Or did you not know what sex you were until you hit adolescence? People know at a very young age how they perceive themselves to be. It's not a decision.
Yeah, at that point I wasn't even sure that the other gender was different. And besides, if I was held to the actions of six-year-old me I would be wearing an adult power-rangers suit
I suggest watching the movie "Ma vie en rose" http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0119590/ it is a very good movie about the struggles of a transgender Child I watched it in grade 6 and it really affected me at the time and I still recommend it to anyone
I support equal rights and all, but...I don't really think a 6 year old is able to understand any of these things. Chances are he'll change his mind when he grows up and he'll be ashamed of it. Not because it's "wrong" or anything, I think it isn't, but because we labeled him as something for the rest of his life because of one of his childhood decisions.
At six years old I dressed as male and every one thought that I would grow out of it and become ashamed of myself however 8 years later I releised that I was male and that it what not my choice. I personally am happy for this girl for understanding her gender identity at such a young age.
I'm glad that it turned out so well for you, but I don't think all children are as lucky as you were. Most of them do grow out of it. I used to think I was a boy too, and even though I still get on better with guys, my feminine side is stronger. If my parents behaved the way this kid's parents do, I'd probably be ashamed of myself now.
There are lots of cases where parents allow their child to live as the opposite gender, only to have the child become even more confused later in life when the child changes their mind, as children are prone to do, and feel they have to continue to live this way because they are engrossed in their ways to change.And then as an adult, they have anger about it. I can honesty say that for years I resented not being born a boy, to the point I refused to do anything deemed girly (have long hair, get my ears pierced, wear girls clothes, use the female version of my name), only to hit pubery and realize I wouldn't want to be a boy if you paid me. Kids are too stupid to make life choices like this (and don't get all defensive about me calling kids stupid, they are stupid, that's why we must do our best to look out for them and protect them.) The parents dropped the ball here in their effort to be "progressive".
i agree with Mickymouse, but i would have to meet coy in person to analyse his/her psyche. personally someone that young should not have something as game changing as a gender switch, but then again we as humans do not fully understand the inner workings of a brain
All the comments have to do with her age and her choice and whatnot, but are we really not going to mention how fucking cool her hair looks? I wish I could pull off something like that.
To answer your question supernovamike when some one ends up in the wrong body it is known as being transgendered there is no true explanation on how, but there are theories such as hormone inbalence which is said to happen durring pregenecy
I still don't get it. Saying "I ended up in the wrong body" implies a whole bunch of things, starting with the claim that "I" exist independent of my body, and that "I" am a different sex than my body. Unless we're trying to make a spiritual argument, it doesn't make sense. And if we are trying to make a spiritual argument, most religions would take issue with such a claim.
It would make more sense to simply say something like "my body just didn't develop the way it was supposed to." Wouldn't it?
Actually, transgender people are born with the wrong brain, not the wrong body. If their genitals match their sex chromosomes, they have the right body. However, males and females have different brain mapping. Sometimes the brain develops using the wrong mapping and doesn't match with the biological sex of the person. Why? Who knows.
It just bothers me that they are letting such a young person make this kind of decision. Suppose the kid just like girly stuff? That doesn't make him a girl. They should just let him be. What's wrong with a boy having long purple hair? Or wear a dress? Girls do tend to have more colorful clothing! He's to young to really know the difference between genders. All he knows is girls get all this cute stuff he likes and boys aren't supposed to have that stuff. Solution? Become a girl. I feel like society is way to label people. People aren't black and white, we come in all kinds of varieties!
I don't think a child should be labeled as anything because I have extreme doubts as to if they fully understand it, would you label a 6 year old as homosexual? Probably not. Idk it just seems like something that shouldn't be done in my opinion.
Maybe he simply wants long hair in a funny color, but everyone else decided to tell him that was feminine? Maybe, his parents encouraging this will be the CAUSE of any gender identity crisis in the future.
My only problem is that the kid is too young to know, and I'm worried this could mess him up.
It would make more sense to simply say something like "my body just didn't develop the way it was supposed to." Wouldn't it?