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Transgender child banned from girl's bathroom

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  • #32
    Madam_X
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    Did a bit of googling there with the question "How do you know if your child is transgender?" and all I can find is "If they have interests that are more typical of the opposite gender". How tf does this mean a child that young is automatically transgender...? :confused:


  • #33
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »
    Any opinion on the topic or are you just focusing on the posters?

    My opinion is that posters who cannot tell the difference between transvestite and transgender should stfu on the topic.


  • #34
    KamiKazeKitten
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭KamiKazeKitten


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Did a bit of googling there with the question "How do you know if your child is transgender?" and all I can find is "If they have interests that are more typical of the opposite gender". How tf does this mean a child that young is automatically transgender...? :confused:

    Exactly, I just don't understand this.
    How can a child so young be presenting as trans? :confused:


  • #35
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I'm glad I'm not a child in modern day America. It seems that if you're a boy and you express the slightest interest in playing with a toy that isn't a toy truck, have no interest in sport or if you like the colour pink you're automatically labelled as 'transgender'.


  • #36
    starlings
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    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    What is weird here is that the child presented as a girl since 18 months old, whatever about a six year old feeling they are a different gender an 18 month old doesn't even know what it is never mind that it feels like something else.

    I did a double take at that too. Then I realised they're probably putting it all together in hindsight.


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  • #37
    anncoates
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    I would not dignify their efforts with the description of 'Parents'.


  • #38
    Kylo Ren
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    I wonder if I put on a dress and claim to be a woman, can I use women's toilets and changing rooms?

    Hmmmmmmmm


  • #39
    Where To
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    I'm 35 and I've never presented as anything yet.


  • #40
    EoghanIRL
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    smash wrote: »
    Sorry, but at 18 months old how can a child be presented as the opposite sex than it was born? It can't even talk ffs.
    ^^ this


  • #41
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    MadsL wrote: »
    My opinion is that posters who cannot tell the difference between transvestite and transgender should stfu on the topic.

    So no opinion on the topic then? They guy typed the wrong word....get over it.


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  • #42
    Invincible
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    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    An inevitable consequence of the school of thought that claims gender is in the mind and not in the jeans.

    Fixed that for ya :)


  • #43
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    KamiKazeKitten wrote: »
    That clear enough for you?
    Read the OP instead of focusing in on the posters.

    At 18 months they can barely talk.

    What sex is someone born with both sexes genitalia? How would you raise them?


  • #44
    smash
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    MadsL wrote: »

    What sex is someone born with both sexes genitalia? How would you raise them?
    The child was not born with both genetalia, stop muddying the waters here.


  • #45
    Cavehill Red
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    Invincible wrote: »
    Fixed that for ya :)

    One of those happy homophones that works both ways.


  • #46
    KamiKazeKitten
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭KamiKazeKitten


    MadsL wrote: »
    What sex is someone born with both sexes genitalia? How would you raise them?

    Like I said, read.the.OP.



    This child was born a boy.


  • #47
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »
    So no opinion on the topic then?

    Yeah. Let's get back to how they are in it for the money! :rolleyes:


  • #48
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    MadsL wrote: »
    What sex is someone born with both sexes genitalia? How would you raise them?

    If that is the case then it's a seperate issue.

    The OP clearly states "who was born as a boy".


  • #49
    Irish Guitarist
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    KamiKazeKitten wrote: »
    Exactly, I just don't understand this.
    How can a child so young be presenting as trans? :confused:
    Maybe he said he wanted to be a Transformer and the parents misheard?


  • #50
    ballsymchugh
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    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    One of those happy homophones that works both ways.

    no way dude, stereo has a much better sound.


  • #51
    Ruudi_Mentari
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    Wher does father stand amidst all this? Figuratively speaking.. I know I donned a few frocks, when I was a lad but no way was I taking to the girls latrine.


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  • #52
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    MadsL wrote: »
    Yeah. Let's get back to how they are in it for the money! :rolleyes:

    I wouldn't put it passed them. Someone who wishes to raise their child as a different sex, for whatever reason, then deprives them of formal education albeit temporarily has the potential to claim for "damages" under "discrimination" grounds.


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
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    I feel so sorry for the child.

    I don't think someone can be identified as transgender at 18 months old, so there's the initial probability that her parents have been trying to strongly influence how she identifies her gender.

    Secondly, there's the fact that now that she's been raised a girl, and taught to identify as a girl, she's been humiliated in her school and told there's something wrong with her using the girls bathroom.

    Thirdly, there's her parent's reacting to this by pulling her out of school, away from her friends, to be home schooled, making a huge deal out of the bathroom thing and no doubt confusing her further.

    The poor thing.


  • #54
    MadsL
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    I see you have to wait til the crushing agony of puberty and beyond to express your gender identity according to after hours. I wonder how many people have even spoken to a transgendered person.

    Nice to see good old Catholic Ireland ain't so far below the surface.


  • #55
    La_Gordy
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    While we can only speculate what the parents are like and if they have an alterior motive, transgendered kids are not uncommon. Kim Petras is probably the most famous example. Having seen how transphobia affected a friend of mine, I'd say let the child use the bird's jacks, none of that pish even matters.


  • #56
    Boombastic
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    MadsL wrote: »
    I see you have to wait til the crushing agony of puberty and beyond to express your gender identity according to after hours. I wonder how many people have even spoken to a transgendered person.

    Nice to see good old Catholic Ireland ain't so far below the surface.

    Well they could have a least waited till the child could talk


  • #57
    smash
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    MadsL wrote: »
    I see you have to wait til the crushing agony of puberty and beyond to express your gender identity according to after hours. I wonder how many people have even spoken to a transgendered person.

    Nice to see good old Catholic Ireland ain't so far below the surface.
    Are you completely insane? An 18 month old can't even talk properly!!!!


  • #58
    MonkstownHoop
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    MadsL wrote: »
    I see you have to wait til the crushing agony of puberty and beyond to express your gender identity according to after hours. I wonder how many people have even spoken to a transgendered person.

    Nice to see good old Catholic Ireland ain't so far below the surface.

    what huge choices can an 18 month old child make? get a grip


  • #59
    nervous_twitch
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    18 months?! This is the serious bad side of being too liberal.

    EDIT: Just to clarify, I have no problem whatsoever with transexuality. Kids that age don't know anything of gender, though. Just let them live and live until any problems become apparent.


  • #60
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »
    I wouldn't put it passed them. Someone who wishes to raise their child as a different sex, for whatever reason, then deprives them of formal education albeit temporarily has the potential to claim for "damages" under "discrimination" grounds.

    Utter conspiracy nonsense. This child is one of triplets, surely three times the 'payday' would be possible.


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  • #61
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    MadsL wrote: »
    I see you have to wait til the crushing agony of puberty and beyond to express your gender identity according to after hours. I wonder how many people have even spoken to a transgendered person.

    Nice to see good old Catholic Ireland ain't so far below the surface.

    Well, that's all a load of bollox.

    Are you saying that the kid doesn't have a right to choose?

    The child cleary has not decided to be transgender....the parents have. To my knowledge I have not met a transgender person and it has no bearing on my opinion of this gaudy situation.


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