Sex change for kids on the rise. A bad sign of the culture we live in

I blogged yesterday about a grown woman who decided wanted to be a man, yet, gave birth to a girl!!??

Today, I offer to you some bad news, that you don't have to grown up in order adopt this type of madness. AP reports:

 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.

 From small, it's growing. This is a concern. And the fact that even professionals are concerned about it, should tell us something.

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.

I wonder if you listen to all your 18 months old toddler tells you. I remember that my first daughter, who is almost 17 yrs now, told me that her blanket had special powers. It took us some effort to finally get her blanket away from her. It was not right to take that piece of cloth everywhere. These parents don't sound like responsible parents, rather, allow their child to indulge. And to top it all, what sort of parents listen to their 18 months old and follow exactly what they say??

Switching gender roles and occasionally pretending to be the opposite sex is common in young children. But these kids are different. They feel certain they were born with the wrong bodies. 

Some are labeled with "gender identity disorder," a psychiatric diagnosis. But Spack is among doctors who think that's a misnomer. Emerging research suggests they may have brain differences more similar to the opposite sex. 

Spack said by some estimates, 1 in 10,000 children have the condition. 

Some kids are different, and yes, they may have a kind of condition that is not common, as we can see, 1 in 10,000. However, if we want to give drugs to people with a mental condition, so they can carry on with their lives like the rest of us, why then some parents do this with their kids when it comes to their sexual identity?


Read the entire entry. It tries to pose both sides of the issue.