The number 3 is a great number to be outraged at. It's practically begging for it.
Edited, Dec 29th 2011 6:13pm by Uglysasquatch
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Torrence wrote:
I don't really understand why some folks are fixating on the number 3. From what I gathered in the article, she underwent therapy and was observed over the course of her entire childhood, and now that she is in her teens has decided to forge ahead with physically matching her body to her mind. No concrete decision was made at 3 years old. She was merely afforded opportunities to live in a way that was comfortable for her. Kudos to the parents for not cramming GI joe down her throat and instead letting her make her own decisions.
And holy sh*t, what a beautiful little girl. It's hard to look at that picture of her and her brother smiling and think she was somehow 'forced' into this change or that it's unnatural. In fact, it's hard to imagine that she actually has a ***** at all. She's certainly a much prettier and feminine looking girl than I was at her age.
I think that Gbaji's words of caution are wise, but some of his comments do border on paranoid. There's definitely some anxiety there on his part, and that's ok. Not everyone is comfortable enough with themselves to actually be accepting of others. I'm just glad that the decision wasn't his to make and was instead in the hands of smarter, stronger, and more accepting individuals.
And holy sh*t, what a beautiful little girl. It's hard to look at that picture of her and her brother smiling and think she was somehow 'forced' into this change or that it's unnatural. In fact, it's hard to imagine that she actually has a ***** at all. She's certainly a much prettier and feminine looking girl than I was at her age.
I think that Gbaji's words of caution are wise, but some of his comments do border on paranoid. There's definitely some anxiety there on his part, and that's ok. Not everyone is comfortable enough with themselves to actually be accepting of others. I'm just glad that the decision wasn't his to make and was instead in the hands of smarter, stronger, and more accepting individuals.
the fixation on the number three is due to most of the research done on the matter suggesting and supporting the conclusion that a child's gender identity is cemented around 36 months of age. It's not exactly 36 for each child, but within a few months either way. Some develop sooner, some later, but typically, the range is 2 and a half to 3 and a half.
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Except if it were baby photos, it would be like looking at before and afters of Michael Jackson. Only instead of turning into a white guy, he changes into a chick!
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Reiterpallasch wrote:
Glitterhands wrote:
Am I the only one who clicked on this thread expecting actual baby photos [of Jinte]? o.O
Except if it were baby photos, it would be like looking at before and afters of Michael Jackson. Only instead of turning into a white guy, he changes into a chick!
So I just stumbled across an interesting article from psychology today, (go go nilatai linking TED to me finding a video about sex/gender stuff while paroosing to following a link to the lady's blog to finding an article by her), and I think this article manages to far more clearly and delicately, and more politically correctly make the same point gbaji is trying to make, but from an entirely different direction.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fetishes-i-dont-get/201012/pink-boys-puppy-dog-tails
It's a pretty interesting read, and I'm actually kind of slapping myself in the face after reading it because it reminded me about a lot of stuff I had forgotten in terms of non-gender conformity.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fetishes-i-dont-get/201012/pink-boys-puppy-dog-tails
It's a pretty interesting read, and I'm actually kind of slapping myself in the face after reading it because it reminded me about a lot of stuff I had forgotten in terms of non-gender conformity.
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Except if it were baby photos, it would be like looking at before and afters of Michael Jackson. Only instead of turning into a white guy, he changes into a chick!
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Reiterpallasch wrote:
Glitterhands wrote:
Am I the only one who clicked on this thread expecting actual baby photos [of Jinte]? o.O
Except if it were baby photos, it would be like looking at before and afters of Michael Jackson. Only instead of turning into a white guy, he changes into a chick!
I think the article was pretty good in its way. Unfortunately I went through the gauntlet of being treated the wrong way by
professionals that didn't have a clue about gender dysfunction and that the rigid roles were "The Correct way." All it ended
up doing was make me worse in many ways. I actually believe it made me postpone my happiness way longer than needed. I can truly
say that sometimes the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Had my backwards thinking shrink and town had more forward thinking
professionals I would have been changed at least twenty years earlier and much happier.
professionals that didn't have a clue about gender dysfunction and that the rigid roles were "The Correct way." All it ended
up doing was make me worse in many ways. I actually believe it made me postpone my happiness way longer than needed. I can truly
say that sometimes the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Had my backwards thinking shrink and town had more forward thinking
professionals I would have been changed at least twenty years earlier and much happier.
Not to revive a dead topic, but here's a related article on gendered children's clothing from the last century that brings up some interesting discussion points: everyone wore dresses as little kids until the 1940s.
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