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This is emblematic of a greater social problem, too many parents are all too willing to " do whatever it takes to make their child happy." We're raising a generation of spoiled useless brats that are obsessed with instant gratification.

Just because a person likes a color that is steriotyped as a feminine color he must be a girl?
What if he liked horses does that mean we should send him to the Danish so he can perform in beastiality acts with them.

Give the kid a couple of Barbie dolls and a couple of GI Joes and see what he does with them. That'll tell you what's going on in his mind. He might be gay...so what? He might just like the color pink...who cares what a 7 year old likes...it'll change tomorrow.

Whatever is going on with the kid, the parents should just let him develop naturally, without predetermining it and then pushing it on him...idiots!

I think the word here is "solipsism." Something is true because I say its true. I guess if I started calling myself a dog, walked around on all fours, and ate from a bowl, that would make me a dog.
I wish I could have had this kid's options when I was younger. I would have loved to have declared myself a girl at 15, so I could share the girls' locker rooms and showers.

This is a disgusting story. The dad is such a pansy himself to allow this shrew of a woman to push him toward this ridiculous decision. When the divorce comes, who is going to get custody of the gender-confused tot?

It's kinda weird, and by kinda weird I mean psychotically disturbed, that our culture thinks its just great to surgically and chemically mutilate a body into a crude facsimile of the opposite sex, but if you advocate therapy for people to get the mind to accept the body that it's in, you're some kind of knuckle-dragging barbarian.

Meanwhile, here's some gay news even Van H would like: Dan Rather wins first Jimmy Carter "Bitter Old Man" Award.

Good grief, they decided this based on what the kid liked when he was only 18 months old??!! Ridiculous! And wasn't pink the color for baby boys back in the 1800s?? How could he have known what was feminine at 18 months?? He was probably just exploring the world as all children do. I remember when I was 5 or 6 year old girl I thought it was funny to pretend to shave my face like I saw my dad doing...and now I'm 24 perfectly happy being female. I never had any identity problem. But what if someone had decided this silly child-play indicated gender identity disorder and had ruined my body and my life with hormones and body modification?

If you view the interview you get an idea of what might have happened here. This poor kid is the youngest of six siblings, all boys. The parents may have been desperate for a little girl and decided that they were going to have one regardless of actual biological identity. They wanted to dress something up in frilly dresses so badly that they put the emotional well being of their kid at risk. Sad.

Sounds like a good ass-kicking is in order here. I gay-ron-tee that Mommy and Daddy are flaming libtards.

When I was a wee lad me and my brother had a bunch of A-Team action figures that we played with. We also had a little set of dolls-house kitchen furniture that was about the same size. So we did what any young lad would do and have the A-Team relaxing in the kitchen after a hard day saving the world. I think that's when I learned my love of cooking. All I can say is, thank god my parents were sane enough to see it was just kids playing with toys and not a 'lifestyle choice'.

I think the word here is "solipsism." Something is true because I say its true. I guess if I started calling myself a dog, walked around on all fours, and ate from a bowl, that would make me a dog.
-Phil

I did that exact same thing when I was a kid. Guess how my parents fixed it? They got me a dog and I stopped.

My cousin dressed up as the pink power ranger during Halloween when he was a kid, but now is definitely no queer or transsexual.

I think I understand John Edwards a little better now.

Edwards is just channeling, man...just channeling. :>

I think it's also worth pointing out that the doctors at Johns Hopkins stopped doing sex-change surgeries because patients continued to have the same feelings of confusion and unhappiness even with their bodies modified. And I believe these were adults who expressed gender confusion on their own (and for years), not children who possibly were pushed into it by their parents.

These parents are fools. They should remember the case of David Reimer. His penis was mutilated during his circumcision as a baby in 1967, so his parents raised him as a girl. His brother told of how kids used to treat him, calling him sasquatch.

At age 14 when it was time to have a sex change, they told him the truth. After living years as a boy but being told he was a girl, he then chose to live as a boy.

But it's hard to undo years of "abuse", and all the publicity surrounding it. He took his own life in 2004. Sad.

But in this case I'm sure Paula Zahn is happy, she got a neat interview, maybe she'll get an award!

This is what happens when you replace the Word of God with the word of man.

proof positive we can make our children into ANYTHING we wish them to be.

Nearly choked on my beef dog just reading skh.pcola's comment on "flaming libtards". Right on, brother. And "Anon" has a good point...get the boy a sister, then he can start being himself. Better yet, get him real parents. Also, Hopkins' having dropped their program speaks volumes. It's hard to believe they had the sense to drop it but I guess miracles do happen.