CHICAGO (AP) — A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.
It's an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.
An 8-year-old second-grader in Los Angeles is a typical patient. Born a girl, the child announced at 18 months, "I a boy" and has stuck with that belief. The family was shocked but now refers to the child as a boy and is watching for the first signs of puberty to begin treatment, his mother told The Associated Press.
NO. Period. When we die, our soul goes to a new body, one that we wished for in our past life. We choose this with God during our transition. If we thought that we should be a different sex in our next life, well, it's gonna be hard to get used to, but you asked for it and God gave it to you. Take it and run. There is a reversal that can happen at the end of this life, if you want to go.
ReplyDeleteso says you. many don't believe in your afterlife and would like to spend the one they know they have the way they wish, without you pressing your relgious values on them.
ReplyDeletewould like to spend the one they know they have the way they wish, without you pressing your relgious values on them.
ReplyDeleteFebruary 20, 2012 9:07 PM
That's fine with me. I would like to spend mine without others safety, healthy, political, and cultural values pressed upon me.
I don't see that happening either.
I'm interested in knowing if the phenomenon of transsexuality has increased in the last century or if it's always been this rate. I know there were instances of people living as the other sex as adults but they were very rare.
ReplyDeleteEither way, it's all about the $$$ for the medical provider as far as I'm concerned.