Christian parents 'to sue school' coz boy in son's class was allowed to wear dress

I remember when I was a little boy if someone tried to put me in a dress I'd have killed them.

Its a bit ridiculous for people to just assume the parents are forcing this on them. There's no evidence to suggest that.
If the child does identify as a girl than it would be harmful to force her to be a boy.

Anytime there's a thread here on trans people it always just boils down to people opposing it because they don't like trans people. Simple as.
I predict this thread will include multiple tenuous arguments and logical fallacies. All construed to try and provide some rational explanation for bigotry.

somefeen wrote: »

I remember when I was a little boy if someone tried to put me in a dress I'd have killed them.

Its a bit ridiculous for people to just assume the parents are forcing this on them. There's no evidence to suggest that.
If the child does identify as a girl than it would be harmful to force her to be a boy.

Anytime there's a thread here on trans people it always just boils down to people opposing it because they don't like trans people. Simple as.
I predict this thread will include multiple tenuous arguments and logical fallacies. All construed to try and provide some rational explanation for bigotry.

I've no problem with transpeople or any adult who wants to identify as anything they like. I have a major issue with parents using their kids as virtue-signalling instruments, and possibly destroying their lives in the process.

As a parent you are meant to protect your child from the big bad world not set them up for ridicule

Seems everyone is jumping on the bandwagon ...

http://https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/02/uks-oldest-tree-is-undergoing-sex-change-botanists-say?CMP=share_btn_fb

Noveight wrote: »

That's simply not true. To dismiss anything which opposes Transgenderism as bigotry would give Transgenderism (and the things which it brings with it) an exemption from criticism or debate. Nothing should have that privilege.

You want to criticise and debate peoples personal identities?

B0jangles wrote: »

Hang on, are you trying to simultaneously rile up a Down With This Sort Of Thing mob and at the same time decry the mob mentality?

Mind-boggling, just mind-boggling.

Some minds aren't difficult to boggle.

Didn't Jesus wear a dress ? Pretty sure he didn't wear trousers anyway.

somefeen wrote: »

I remember when I was a little boy if someone tried to put me in a dress I'd have killed them.

Its a bit ridiculous for people to just assume the parents are forcing this on them. There's no evidence to suggest that.
If the child does identify as a girl than it would be harmful to force her to be a boy.

Anytime there's a thread here on trans people it always just boils down to people opposing it because they don't like trans people. Simple as.
I predict this thread will include multiple tenuous arguments and logical fallacies. All construed to try and provide some rational explanation for bigotry.

I really don't agree with you, to express concern here is not bigotry at all. Parents don't necessarily know they're doing it or intend to foist this upon their kids. There has been a growing movement of this across the US and more recently in Europe too, an ideology that believes your child will know their own gender at 2,before they can speak or comprehend most anything in the world and that they will tell you what they want. Lots of well meaning but anxious parents are taken in by this idea and in trying to do what they think is best but theyre reading ordinary childish behaviors as cues of transgenderism. They fear they'll discover it too late for their child to seamlessly transition or have hormonal blockers so some are rushing right in to socially transition the child immediately.
But it's a big deal, you'r talking about setting tiny children on a path they can't possibly understand,one that one day will lead to dramatic hormonal upheaval, very serious operations, the loss of their fertility, you'll be determining the small group of people from whom they might choose a sexual partner or life partner from in years to come because not everyone is open to a transgender partner. It really could not be more enormous.

Below are some extracts from the Newyorker, a left leaning publication by any reckoning. These pieces highlight how some adults are imposing their anxieties on small children because of this movement. The whole article is worth reading but I thought I'd just highlight two pieces to illustrate the level of confusion that has arose around this issue. It's just one element of the issue but it's a worrying one.

n preschool, he wore princess dresses—accompanied by a sword. He was now in the later years of elementary school, and had abandoned dresses. He liked Legos and Pokémon, loved opera, and hated sports; his friends were mostly science-nerd girls. He’d never had any trouble calling himself a boy. He was, in short, himself. But Hoffman and her husband—an architect and a children’s-book author who had himself been a fey little boy—felt some pressure to slot their son into the transgender category. Once, when Sam was being harassed by boys at school, the principal told them that Sam needed to choose one gender or the other, because kids could be mean. He could either jettison his pink Crocs and cut his hair or socially transition and come to school as a girl.

At a conference in Philadelphia devoted to transgender health, I attended a panel of parents discussing their gender-nonconforming kids. A man in the audience said that he had a son “who, at two, was very clear in teaching us how he wanted to dress and how he wanted to be in the world. Now he’s almost three and I’m trying to let this be a wonderful gender-fluid period, but I wonder if I’m holding him back. Like, should I be asking, ‘Do you want to be called he or she?’ ” A woman in the audience confessed to her own desire for closure: “We want to know—are you trans or not?”

From
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/18/about-a-boy-2