Interesting And Very Positive News!

[Guest savagedm]

8 Year Boy Returns to School as a Girl. A friend sent this link to me over facebook, looks like Colorado is giving great support to the HBS community in certain parts now! Hopefully this trend spreads!

[MaryEllen]

Yes, Let's hope this trend continues in a positive way. I do worry about the welfare of the young lady, though. Another young transgender in Maine wasn't so lucky.

http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?art...&zoneid=500

[Guest GoldenKirbichu]

I don't like their terminology, it's flawed.

It also makes the little girl sound like a crossdresser, which, although it's not a problem, isn't what she is. (We can only hope for the day in which crossdressing for guys isn't a problem, for the sake of people who are...)

""I just find it ironic that they can dictate the dress style of children to make sure they don't wear inappropriate clothing, but they have no controls in place for someone wearing transgender clothing," [Dave M.] told the station."

This is a highly unacceptable comment to quote in an article about transgenderism... there is nothing wrong with wearing clothes, especially in the context of this little girl's life.

[Guest Just_Call_Me_Nick]

8 Year Boy Returns to School as a Girl. A friend sent this link to me over facebook, looks like Colorado is giving great support to the HBS community in certain parts now! Hopefully this trend spreads!

Well at least the school did come with a compromise I suppose by allowing her to use the teachers bathroom. That's a hard one since the age group...it is good on one side of things...the child already feels a certain way and able to express it freely...however I am concerned though...at that age I know I was confused...it took me alot of growing up to do before I really settled in on what I was or who I was...so I am a tab afraid that the grandather is pushing the child in his own fight.

While the grandfather is pushing the fight what if the child changes her/his mind...would she be afraid of dissapointing the grandfather and not say anything? Then still be push into being something she/he is not? Defeating the whole purpose?

I truly believe we should have all sex bathrooms...but for more adults then anything...

Then again...having diffrent bathrooms as a child is setting the standard of things...on who you should be and whatnots...oh that is a tough one to debate on...I am on either side of this one...ooo a toughie for sure...

Nick~

[Guest Just_Call_Me_Nick]

Ooops I meant to quote Mary Ellens post...sorry...

Nick~

[Guest savagedm]

I think it is great that schools are finally beginning to accept that transgenderism and HBS in any form are very real and need to be addressed at younger ages in a lot of children. I wish society would start moving in that direction. However, something to ponder... just before women were granted suffrage there was the most violent opposition. Just before blacks got their civil rights there was a TON of violent opposition. Our time is coming, and fast

[Guest]

Here's a video I found this morning of a woman whose child is going through this;

Laura

[Guest Sakura_Stingray]

that man is a bad man...he is a one sided idiot sending his grandson as a lacky to ruin someone els's life because he is too afraid to say his life was horrible and did not relate enough to girls to want to change....i beleive people who hate other people because the person has or just gained something they could never acheive in their own life....then again i have no opinion that is creditaable o.O

[Guest Ryles_D]

I truly believe we should have all sex bathrooms...but for more adults then anything...

Definitely. It's easier for people with younger opposite-sex children (dad doesn't have to worry about bringing his young daughter into the men's room and vice versa) and transgenders alike. Women might not like it, though, would cut down on their ability to go to the bathroom together and gab about a guy that might be in the stall right behind them. Joking.

Whei Wong, the district spokeswoman, said the school is preparing two "unisex" restrooms for the student to use and teachers have been instructed to address the student by name, instead of using a "he" or "she" pronoun.

Whatever happened to "they"? 'You' is plural and we use that all the time to refer to individuals.

Anyways, I guess I can see the point... but that's kind of weird. The kid wants to be called "she", call her 'she', don't worry about whether or not that's their "real" gender. It's like saying Mike has to be called 'Michael'.

[Guest SilverArrow]

Whatever happened to "they"? 'You' is plural and we use that all the time to refer to individuals.

Having taken Business Communications in college I've been told that 'they' is actually grammatically incorrect in defining a singular androgenously. The 'fair gender context' in writing has always been a hot issue of late, mostly for women's human rights, but it can be equally applied here. The general writing style when referring to a person without defining gender makes use of things like gender-neutral terms, alternation of gender in examples, etc. Unfortunately this has no application in speech, and so we are left with either slang or identifying a gender. I've always been nervous about approaching a person who's gender I didn't know in the fear of being wrong, and not knowing how to address them in a neutral way.