Parents of a 5-year-old “transgender child” have filed a complaint against a St. Paul charter school, alleging it failed to protect him from bullying and refused to teach all the students their preferred transgender-awareness curriculum.
David and Hannah Edwards, whose child was born a boy but now thinks he’s a girl, has filed with the city’s Department of Human Rights, claiming their child “wasn’t able to take full advantage of Nova’s educational opportunities because of her gender identity and expression. This violated her rights.”
And as we all know, five-year-olds are eminently capable of making serious, life-altering decisions and they should be completely indulged if they want to be a little girl instead of a little boy… or that matter, if they want to be a fairy princess or a magic rainbow unicorn. And not only must they be indulged, but everybody else’s life must be completely reordered in order to accommodate their gender dysphoria.
I’m beginning to suspect that a good portion of adult delusions are the result of not growing up.
just a sleazy attempt to fleece the taxpayers.
Aren’t there already preschools in large metropolitan areas for the gender non-conforming and other current/future denizens of the Island Of Misfit Toys? Perhaps a change of institutions which is more welcoming of their child’s unknown future choice of pronouns would be the better solution.
Trans children are rare, rare, rare.
I wish activists would stay away from the children issues.
It’s embarrassing to serious GLBT defenders of freedom and forces us to defend adult rights and battle this children as pawns strategy
Doesn’t surprise me. Today’s Dhimmicrat voters have the emotional and intellectual capabilities of a five-year-old.
Regards,
Peter H.
When my son was in kindergarten there was one bathroom, non gender, and only one went in at time. They aren’t sexual away at 5 and shouldn’t be. He had boys and girls as friends, it was based on commen play interest. He also use to want to wear my nightgowns and play with my makeup. He was a baby, I was mommy, it’s normal! Then he outgrew it. A lot these parents need help and stop screwing up their kids.
With a third of White children and nearly eighty percent of Black children coming from single parent homes and the Cultural Marxist indoctrination of most of the population, is it any surprise that children are so screwed up.
Juan it’s sad. I grew up with a horrific single mother who told me constantly how I ruined her life and I wasn’t wanted. I swore I would be the mother that I wanted, not the one that I had. I swore I would be a mother, a secret best friend and defender, but not your best friend. That should be different. Does that make sense? A lot of parents that I know had happy childhoods, which you would think they would emulate. But they want to, I don’t even know, I just have nothing to explain it.
If the boy wants to wear a dress and makeup, home school him.
Davinci38, I’m guessing you’ve never been a parent of a little boy. It’s very common they do that at home when they’re little. It’s the parents that force it outside of the home.
Before the First World War, it wasn’t uncommon to dress young boys in dresses.
It absolutely was not. There’s a family photograph of my grandfather and his sister as small children (between ages 4-7) in almost-identical dresses. They were both born in the 1880s. No one thought anything of it, including my aunts, who explained the photograph to me as I was growing up.
Most of this kid gender identity “movement” is for the benefit of the parent to gain social brownie points for being “brave”, ” progressive” and “open minded”. It is interesting to note it is the same group of people who will declare that a 16 year who savagely kills people is not an adult, or a 26 year old is not adult enough to find their own insurance, or a 20 year old is not old enough to buy a beer but a 10 year old is old enough to start talking hormones that will permanently alter their bodies. Total disconnect.
There are entire libraries full of research and learning on child development that these people are apparently unfamiliar with. Even uneducated but observant parents know kids go through phases they grow out of as they mature. Trying to trap a child in one of the early developmental phases is criminal and will really f*ck up the kid.
just what you send your kid to school for to learn transgenderism. forget that reading writing and arithmetic. thank you kevin Jennings. you wonder why the united states is 20th in education?
What I’m learning here is that as a society all these years we were afraid to have a larger conversation about how natural it is for kids to experiment with gender, etc, without shame attached. It has taken the topic of transgender going mainstream to bring it out, which is pretty sad. Had we already had that conversation, perhaps we wouldn’t have the mess we have today. Oh well. Let’s continue to keep things to ourselves and see where that gets us.
Part of the problem with little boys wanting to be little girls is the GRRRL power that well (ish)-meaning mothers teach their daughters.
Girls are good, boys are bad. Girls are better than boys, girls can do everything a boy can but boys can’t do everything a girl can.
Top that off with the education environment and you have a perfect storm for boys not wanting to be boys.
My son went through it. “I want to be a girl, mom.” “Why?” “Because boys are bad.” He was 4. If I hadn’t addressed that issue then and had instead indulged his “I want to be a girl”, I may have had a “transgendered” kid on my hands.
It was about something far deeper, though. You need to affirm kids in what they are. Not indulge the delusion that one sex is better than the other.
That’s not true, and sounds delusional. The majority of mothers who I know that teach their daughters to be fiercely independent, do not make boys out to be the enemy. Otherwise, I want to see the receipts if you’re going to make blanket statements like that.
Oh come on, Cray!
It most certainly IS that. They are young elementary students. It isn’t virulent feminism, but “boys are gross and my mommy says I’m better than you… nyah nyah nyah na” is not new.
If children boil down adult talk to the most basic concept, that IS what mommies, children’s shows, and school discipline are teaching kids. Why should I listen to you? Do you have school age kids? Cuz I do. Have you heard the innocent things mothers say to their daughters to empower them that can be construed the wrong way by a silly child? I have.
Receipts please.