Quote From: yorkerpupWhat your body is and what you feel you are are completely different things.
One major problem is, we say that baseball is for a boy and Barbie's are for a girl. If we would be open enough to let a girl play with whatever toy they wanted, things would be different. Don't classify a toy or activity as male and female. Any person can do it!
I am Co-Vice President for a group for trans gender and inter sexed people. We educate and fight for change.
A parent should respect their child's choice. I don't see anywhere in the Bible that says only females can wear dresses and only males can wear pants. The idea of that is just ridiculous. Plus, I was always taught that God is loving and we should love others and treat them the way they want to be treated, labeling them and telling them they are wrong and all of this you want to do IS WRONG AND AGAINST WHAT GOD TAUGHT US!
Well in USA what the body is does greatly impact many adversely. We should change the toys industry so it does not have such drastic differences in toys by gender. Heck men enjoy Barbies more than any child?
Toys should entertain and teach more important than the stero type crap most chidlren are given?
The Bible days raley distinguished on dress code except to be appropriate, most wore some kind of robe wear, head garbs to protect from head lice, heat, sun and other reasons. They wore lothing to cover the body for the most part not an extention of self as todays world.
respecting a childs choice is absurd, raising a child to be a respectful adult is much better, child learn to make choices, it takes time to know all the decision making skills of an adult.
Want to through the Bible in for anyone, we are suppose to teach children what way they should go, as in
how to be an adult and what kind of good adult they should be? With a world of too many mouthy, disrespectful and far too immmature youths: our parenting skills need a whole lot more than just about gender, if it is about respecting individuals we would have less troubles?
bullying in schools and neighborhoods is growing constantly and getting more dangerous?
Perscription drugs kills more people than any other narcotic?
Alcohol is found all over, every age and geender yet a cancer or arthritis patient can't smoke Pot to ease pain and nausia?
The Bible is absolutely a good history book to lean to on many issues, especially about loving and respect. Bad things happens to good people all the time , the Bible shows us that history, don't expect changes too fast for any of this, but medicating children is outragous!
