a 12 year old “Boy” goes to school dressed as a “girl” and everybody is told not to laugh at him/her and treat them as a female.
Lots of background missing but I just don’t understand this at all.
By: jbritchford - 12th October 2009 at 10:48
I found this article to be quite interesting on the general topic:
By: BeeJay - 11th October 2009 at 21:35
Why didn’t the parents and authorities arrange a change of sex & school when term ended?
By: symon - 19th September 2009 at 01:34
I can’t fathom how a kid as young as 12 can be so certain that they want to change gender. But I guess no one could understand unless they’ve been in the situation.
No matter what approach the parents/teachers went about, I think unfortunately the kid was going to get picked on at one stage or another. As much as one would like to, you can’t expect all kids at that age to accept and understand what he/she has done – which will invariably lead to some form of bullying.
By: BumbleBee - 18th September 2009 at 21:49
I don’t know whether you can assume that the child him/herself is confused.
A close friend of my daughter’s at university is a 38year old man,a married father of two.
He’s preparing to have an operation to change him into a woman.Luckily his wife and children are completely supportive of him.
For all of his life he’s had the feeling that he was born into the wrong body,but forced himself to behave in the way that a ” normal ” man would.I can’t begin to imagine how distressing that must have been.
Now he’s been accepted for the delightfully named ” gender reassignment “,but before surgery he has to live as a female for at least a year,presumably to prove his commitment to the idea.
It certainly seems wrong for a child to end one school year as a male and then reappear at the beginning of the next year as a female,and it would have needed a great deal of sensitive handling,which seems to have been lacking here.
By: Grey Area - 18th September 2009 at 18:10
How a 12 year old can be left so exposed like this, and the education authority so lacking in knowledge (Ok, it’s unusual I expect !) or support they acted the way that they did. At the middle is a confused child with parents, badly let down.
Oh, it’s quite ridiculous!
That poor kid has been let down terribly by people he/she/whatever should be able to trust implicitly.
By: benyboy - 18th September 2009 at 17:30
Some might say its a confused child let down by bad parents.
By: BSG-75 - 18th September 2009 at 17:14
BSG-75.
Which bit is that you don’t understand, that the boy is, to all intents and purposes a girl? Or that the school and Education Authority were so insensitive to the needs of the child that they have placed them not only in danger of being bullied, but that the bullying can and will increase the psychological pressure this child will now endure?
regards,
kev35
How a 12 year old can be left so exposed like this, and the education authority so lacking in knowledge (Ok, it’s unusual I expect !) or support they acted the way that they did. At the middle is a confused child with parents, badly let down.
By: kev35 - 18th September 2009 at 16:45
BSG-75.
Which bit is that you don’t understand, that the boy is, to all intents and purposes a girl? Or that the school and Education Authority were so insensitive to the needs of the child that they have placed them not only in danger of being bullied, but that the bullying can and will increase the psychological pressure this child will now endure?
regards,
kev35
By: Nashio966 - 18th September 2009 at 16:39
to be perfectly honest, when i was at school (not that long ago) id have have been ragged rotten about it, and probably have the living s**t kicked out of me 
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