There are many issues to tackle in the world, and it seems that the problem why there are two sides and nobody can agree is simply the reason of education. People like Mr. Stanton are the reasons why a minor problem can't get solved. Let's focus on the main topic of Gender Identity.
It is not caused by the environment. I know by saying this I will be challenged by people like Mr. Stanton. Ok, for the last fifty or more years the medical field has took interest in why some peoples body has net matched the brain and there is proof that it goes back for ages. In the 1960's Dr. John Money had interest dealing with the gender issue. Mainly with Intersex Individuals, He felt that raising a child that was born genetically male that putting him in a female environment are raising him as a female that his gender would become female. Proof, He had ruined peoples lives by thinking this. Today Dr's everyday do surgeries on children that are two years of age or less that are intersex. This should be a crime
They still feel that modifying someone's genitals and raising the child as an identified gender is the fix.
Gender is not choice people don't want to be male or female. They are born male or female but people get in a hurry and do things that should not touch. Dr's like to experiment when the experimenting is like flipping a quarter. Don't do anything to a person unless they identify first. I was born in 1974 and the only child. I had identified female since the age of three. I had a mother and father around everyday and was never ever subject to female gender toys or clothing. At the age of three I had problems with my genitals feeling that they were wrong and it ended up haunting me all my childhood. I had grew up with mostly all boys but always felt the opposite. When I had entered school the huge problem started, I still did not know I was male on the outside. I thought that I was seen as female and felt 100% different. I went to school and and always connected with the other females. I saw males totally opposite. I would use the girls room I thought that was the proper thing to do, but of course I got in trouble. I was reprimanded and told you are a boy you will do everything as a boy. Ok you tell a child something and scare the hell out of them they will most likely never do it again. Ok, now people would most likely blame my parents for this action but they didn't have any impact on this. This was a learning process for me that I learned very quick. It was the start of school I had identified female and felt comfortable in my skin. Ok now my childhood turned to hell. BOY BOY BOY!!!!!! Ok Now I thought I was nuts and the only person in the world. I was lonely and trying to do and live every day in my body but was trapped., and as the result I had struggled in school for being depressed. As years went by until I was 12 years old I was watching a talk show pertaining to transgender.
What a relief I was not nuts and there was a solution, but there were negative people on the show thinking this was wrong! So I waited to get out of high school to start transition called many doctors but no help and felt very scared to tell my parents. Every body I called hung up the phone on me! To make a long story short ROAD BLOCKS! So years went by and my identity never changed.....Still Female.
As a child everyone told me I was so good until age eleven I got mean and was the time of puberty my father and I just could not get along because he was trying to raise me as a man. I still feel today If you are a man raise your boy as a man but the pain just got worse. I fought to deal with it until age 26 something in my brain just did not like testosterone. I could no longer function, anxiety attacks every single day. The simple fix was hormones. Within a few months, I was as good as new. Estrogen was in a female range and so was the testosterone. Dr's said It was all in my head so after two years I tested it for one month I had waited until or if the effects would reverse and they they did, extreme physical pain. Most people would say withdraw but I feel that it was way too much testosterone where it should not have been. For example try adding a large dose of testosterone to a genetic female that only identifies female!
Each case of transgender is different but simular and the endocrine system has little or maybe nothing to do with it. Everyone's DNA and Chromosomes are different.We dont choose race and nobody can change someone's sexual orientation or tell a right handed person to be left handed. They can try but will still favor the right hand.
Gender Identity is definitely a case of being born with. But the Ignorant public challenges the facts because Men simply don't want to be with a person that had previously had a body of a genetic male. People are just simply embarrassed. I understand, and if I was on their side of the fence I myself most likely would think that way too. People don't want change even if it hurts someone else!
We are at the time that we need to start a new beginning and research has to continue, We all know are Government will not support this issue like they do Attention Deficit Disorder. Do we really need them? It would be nice but we need more true facts first. We can't wait another 100 years we need to continue to pioneer this issue it will be resolved sometime but when? The best educators as of now are transsexual adults with the proof of gender confused children. There are proven ways to let a child become who they really are and live a happy life. The parents have worked with the child and been a success story VS. John Money's that was totally wrong. The fact is if a parent works with their Childs true identity over a long period of time with qualified professionals that they will not wait until age 30 or older to try and find there way thru life when it gets really hard.
If we can just focus on understanding the genetic makeup of the body instead of religion or other off the wall things. People are different everybody is different but nobody wants to face GID and except it. Chromosomes are KEY! I hope you can agree!
Did you take Dr. Phil" Gender Confused Kids Pole?
I would like to discuss it for a second.
About the POLE to vote: It consist of two easy questions.
1) Do you think gender confusion in kids is caused by environment or chromosomes?
Environment. If someone answered environment these are people like Glen Stanton
Chromosomes. We all know this is correct!
I'm not sure. If someone answered this, That is good too. They are asking to be educated more.
2) If a child wants to play with toys and dress like the opposite sex(should Say Gender) should a parent let them?
This is a yes or no question, And a very good one.
It does NOT ask to dress a child as the opposite gender and send them to school.
It does NOT ask if a child should start HORMONES.
It asks If a child WANTS! It does NOT say the parent WANTS to dress the child.
Basically the question asks: If a child is possibly expressing his or her true gender should the parent stop them.
Vote your opinion!
Thes parents are dealing with the situation as best suited with the help of professional advisors. I wish people would quit putting the horse before the cart and take one step at a time. These children are taking steps of correction over time without the help of people like Glen Stanton. Mr. Stanton would be the richest man in the world if he had a positive solution. But proof is in taking proper medical attention with professional services.
Dr. Phil tackles the sensitive topic of children who identify more with the opposite sex. What do you do if your son wants to wear dresses and play with dolls? Or if your daughter tells you she wants to be a boy? Should parents chock it up to being a phase that their children will grow out of, or should they intervene right away? Meet Melissa and Tim, whose 8-year-old son declared himself to be a girl when he was just 3 years old. Now, they allow their child to live as a girl and wonder if and when they should begin hormone therapy. Then, when Mary’s son was 8, he told her he felt like a girl, and Mary allowed him to experiment with dressing as a female. Now a teenager, her son is more comfortable living as a male -- but Mary wonders if she caused his confusion. Joining the discussion are experts with differing points of view: Dr. Dan Siegel, professor and clinical psychiatrist at UCLA School of Medicine, and Glenn Stanton, author and research fellow with the organization Focus on the Family. Is gender identity something we’re born with, or is it influenced by parents and environment? Don’t miss this heated discussion, then talk about the show here..
