Children Have Enough Confusion. Don't Add Sexual Uncertainty To It

No pain is funny. Emotional pain is as common as physical, just as painful and may even damage you more than bloody wounds and broken bones. It is especially not funny when it is a child who, at their young age is not man enough or woman enough to please an overbearing parent or bullies on the school yard. Many boys and girls, in early childhood, can't be visibly distinguished as male or female. That does not mean they are other than what they were born to be. And if they become confused as to whether they are a boy or a girl, it may either be a temporary confusion in their immature little minds or due to father or mother trying to live out their own fantasies in the child, or who have been brain-washed by Liberal News Media, Social Planners and sexually confused, adult activists. Fathers often try to make football heroes of their little sons who have other God given talents and interests. Some mothers do the same by trying to make sex idols, models or Hollywood actresses of their tiny daughters who would rather just be a little mommy to their doll. Children who don't yet know who they are can easily be swayed by intimidation from parents or bullying at school or in the neighborhood. If a child is encouraged to be what God gifted him/her to be and what he was born to be, and parents would help them cultivate their God given talents, and God given sex, most of the sexual confusion would be neutralized. RB

This from News.com.au
Patrick's Pain: 'I Didn't Know Who The Person Staring Back At Me Was

AT the age of 12, Patrick Mitchell began a two-year journey to realize his dream of becoming a girl. And then he changed his mind.

PATRICK Mitchell just wanted to change everything about himself.

Uncomfortable in his own skin, the young schoolboy felt like he didn’t quite fit.

He was just seven years old when he felt like he first heard the phrase “trans”.

It was the start of an emotional journey which, five years later, would see him diagnosed with gender dysphoria, and beg his mother to let him transition into a girl.

“You wish you could just change everything about you, you just see any girl and you say ‘I’d kill to be like that’,” Patrick tells reporter Ross Coulthart in an interview to air on 60 Minutes on Sunday night.

But two years after taking estrogen hormones and growing his hair long in an effort to address the condition which put him at odds between his biological gender and his own identity, Patrick has changed his mind.

He’s stopped taking the estrogen hormones which transformed his body and is preparing for surgery to remove the excess breast tissue to transition back into a boy, Woman’s Day reports.

Patrick was just 12 when he first voiced his mental torture to his parents.

It had been five years since he’d first heard the word ‘trans’, he says “and because I’d always identified with girls thought, well, this makes sense, I probably am a girl”.

As his conflict grew — both internally, and externally thanks to hitting puberty and being bullied at school — he’d stay up late at night researching trans people and what could be done to look more like a female.

His mother, Alison, tells 60 Minutes she could see her son struggling.

Finally, having seen a television story about transgender people, she gently broached the subject with her son.

“I hadn’t even finished the sentence and he had the biggest smile on his face. I hadn’t seen him smile for months,” she said.

With a doctor’s diagnosis, she gave the go-ahead for Patrick to begin his transformation.

“When he was young he would dress up in girls’ clothes and at one stage he did say to me could he be taken to the doctor to be made into a girl,” she said.

But at the start of this year, when teachers started referring to him as a girl, Patrick started feeling different.

“I began to realise I was actually comfortable in my body. Every day I just felt better,” he says.

He again turned to his supportive mum.

“He looked me in the eye and said ‘I’m just not sure that I am a girl’,” Alison says.

It was a massive twist in an emotional journey, and Alison has only admiration for her son.

“That moment ... when you know it’s taken every drop of courage for that child to speak up … I didn’t know what the coming days would bring, but I knew his thoughts had caught up with his body,” she says.

Here is an Op-Ed From Los Angeles Times 
(Not the paper's opinion) By Debra W. Soh

Are Gender Feminists And Transgender Activists Undermining Science?

In the world of radical identity politics, two groups with very different philosophies have been ignoring science in the name of advancing equality: gender feminists and transgender activists.

Gender feminists — who are distinct from traditional equity feminists — refuse to acknowledge of normal change in shaping the human brain, and instead promote the idea that sex differences are caused by a socialization process that begins at birth. Gender, according to them, is a construct; we are born as blank slates and it is parents and society at large that produce the differences we see between women and men in adulthood.

The idea that our brains are identical sounds lovely, but the scientific evidence suggests otherwise. Many studies, for instance, have documented the masculinizing effects of prenatal testosterone on the developing brain. And a recent study in the journal Nature’s Scientific Reports showed that testosterone exposure alters the programming of neural stem cells responsible for brain growth and sex differences. 

Gender feminists often point to a single study, published in 2015, which claimed it isn’t possible to tell apart male and female brains. But when a group of researchers reanalyzed the underlying data, they found that brains could be correctly identified as female or male with 69% to 77% accuracy. In another study, published in 2016, researchers used a larger sample in conjunction with higher-resolution neuroimaging and were able to successfully classify a brain by its sex 93% of the time.

Even if male and female brains were identical structurally, this would fail to say anything about differences in brain functionality. Indeed, studies have shown sex differences across a wide variety of cognitive domains, including verbal fluency (the ability to generate many different words starting with a given letter) and mental rotation (the ability to rotate three-dimensional shapes in the mind). In one study using functional MRI, women outperformed men on the former, while men outperformed women on the latter. 

In my experience, proponents touting the “blank slate” view are willing to agree, in private conversations, that neurological sex differences do exist, but they fear that acknowledging as much publicly will justify female oppression. This is backward. As it stands, female-typical traits are seen as inferior and less worthy of respect. This is the real issue the movement fails to address: Nobody wants to be female-typical, not even women.

Distortion of science hinders progress. When gender feminists start refuting basic biology, people stop listening, and the larger point about equality is lost.

Unlike gender feminists, transgender activists firmly believe that gender is a biological, rather than social, reality — but of course, they don’t believe that it’s necessarily tied to sex at birth. They also believe that gender identity is quite stable early on, warranting a transition not only for transgender adults but also young children who say they were born in the wrong body.