(08-03-2017, 02:37 PM)Kotite Wrote: So much expertise in this thread..

If it isn't your kid..  honestly, what do you care?  Chances are, if the kid is born with an "innie" it will self identify as a girl and if it has an "outie" it will self identify as a boy.

As we know, this is not always the case. I have been very vocal about a friend I have who thought she had twin boys until one started getting very frustrated around the age of two asking, "why do you keep calling me a boy?" A couple years later, after several visits with professionals, they allowed their daughter to be who she was always meant to be.

You can call it a mental disorder or a natural deviation from the norm. It doesn't matter. The kid has a girl's brain in a boy's body. It has absolutely nothing to do with sexuality or sexual attraction. She's heading into 2nd grade for crying out loud. It's just who she is.

If these parents want to raise their child without placing it in a "box", so be it. Better to do this then to have a kid who identifies as a different sex and is mentally or physically abused by their parents for nonconformity to the social norms.  Gay people exist. Trans people exist. Intersex people exist. They always have. You can get skeeved out by it for being unusual and not typical. Or you can educate yourself and maybe show a little [BLEEP] compassion for the fact these people have to deal with the types of comments in this thread unprovoked on an almost daily basis.