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Questioning your gender at the age of two?!?
The media have all been wildly shouting about the latest example of gender confusion – a case of a girl who since the age of two years old knew she identified with the male gender.
You have to have compassion for the level of angst and confusion in this very young girl.
But Professor of Psychiatry Paul McHugh, whose studies of transgender surgery brought the procedures to an end at Johns Hopkins University said
Treating these children with hormones does considerable harm and it compounds their confusion. Trying to delay puberty or change someone's gender is a rejection of the lawfulness of nature… Children transformed from their male constitution into female roles suffered prolonged distress and misery as they sensed their natural attitudes. Their parents usually lived with guilt over their decisions, second-guessing themselves and somewhat ashamed of the fabrication, both surgical and social, they had imposed on their sons.... We psychiatrists would do better to concentrate on trying to fix their minds and not their genitalia.”
The majority of children treated by those with expertise in this area are able to embrace the goodness of being male or female. Walt Heyer, author of “Paper Genders”, felt he should have been a girl at the age of 5 years old, had gender change surgery as an adult, and lived as a female for eight years until he realised that surgery doesn’t change your DNA birth gender. He says,
The struggle with gender issues evolve out of psychological issues. The gender issue is only a symptom of something of a much deeper problem within children, as it was in me.”
‘I just want people to accept me for who I am’ – NZ Herald
Kiwi transgender boy’s online video draws applause - NZ Herald     
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Bob McCoskrie: Gender agenda confusing children – NZ Herald Apr 2014
The current trend in treatment - changing genders - fails to take into account the possibility of deeply unresolved psychological issues that, when treated first, could avoid the need for any change in gender. What the child really needs is affirmation of their unique personality and appropriate treatment for their unhappiness and other emotional issues. To think that drugs and a surgeon and a knife can change gender is mythical. And to allow a child to make that type of decision is downright dangerous and ultimately harmful to the child."

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