Replies to '10/29 Gender Confused Children'

Quote From: mark15

I got the same impression.  In fact, before I knew who they were, I thought they were a gay couple and one was going to announce he was a girl.

I'm not here to bash them.  In fact, I grew up listening to Focus on the Family.  I listened to everything James Dobson had to say.  Of course, this was when i didn't have cable tv, the internet wasn't a household word...But, it seemed to me that James Dobson was one of the few pioneering Christian psychologists who helped fuse psychology with the Bible.  Before then, preachers everywhere were slamming their fists on the pulpit and screaming, "Depression is a sin!  Get over it and let others see Jesus in your life!"  This made me believe that my own problems were sinfully wrong, yet I couldn't shake them.  Later (and yet years ago) I was to be diagnosed with Bipolar ...then, recently reworded from "Manic-depression" for the bad connotations that were attached.  The term was so new, that when I was diagnosed, I didn't even know  what it meant..  I was horrified to find out what it did mean. Focus on the Family really helped me through all that.

Fastforward to the present; the message I kept receiving from this team was that they see "this...this...and this..." in all kids who are gender-confused.  This implies that the mother could have prevented this. 

However, you may be right.  If she had given them a chance to talk, they may have opened our eyes a bit and allowed us to see how they really can help.  They did look like they wanted to say something else, but were spending that time defending themselves..

I have no side on this issue.  I decided long ago that I wouldn't make decisions on anything I'd never experienced personally.  I'm just commenting on the general frustrations of the mom.