I really thought I had seen everything and usually nothing annoys me more than the last segment of the nightly news where they provide some social indoctrination under the guise of a human interest story.
This weeks special person is “transgendered children.”
Think I’m kidding?
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/transgender-kids/jacobs-journey-life-transgender-5-year-old-n345131
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/transgender-kids
Listening to the “experts” is beyond frightening. They seem to be basing their determinations on nothing more than social opinion. Listening to the parents is disturbing, reminds me of listening to parents who explain that they killed their child because it was possessed by demons.
Now I don’t claim to have an easy, obvious answer for this one. But I think most kids feel like they “don’t fit in” at some point in their early development about a variety of issues. But I’m not sure each one of those identity crisis issues needs to be addressed and validated, especially this early in the life of a developing child.
I’m also willing to accept that “some” of these kids will have gender identification issues into early adulthood regardless and at that point a decision will have to be made.
But by declaring this the “new normal” we are going to likely do far more harm than good. Kids who would never even question this part of their personality are now going to have to consider it along with all the other things they are forced to deal with as a child.
And rather than protect these kids, who have identity problems, they are putting them on the news front and center. Case in point the parents who took the time to relocated their child at a new school so she could “live as a boy” without being socially rejected by those who knew him as a girl, but then he is on the nightly news for everyone to see.
More importantly, instead of quietly allowing children to make social adjustments, every other child will instead be forced to recognize and accept the “transgender” status of these children. Really happy I didn’t even know what that was when I was this age.
I’m actually at a loss for words…