Say what?
The Sun UK has a story about a mom, Beth McGarrity, who revealed how her son and daughter both told her they wanted to swap gender, within weeks of each other.
Beth and her husband Russ noticed their children were different from a young age. At five, Russie liked to play dressing up with girls and Aly, three years younger, preferred to kick a football with the boys.
In high school, Russie said he suffered bullying and depression after adopting an androgynous look. He was also threatened with expulsion after running into the girls’ toilet. He told his parents: “I did not choose this for myself. I wish there was a way that I could not be this way. I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.”
Russie, Russ, Beth and Aly pose for a family photo before their transgender revelations/The Sun/Facebook Photo
With his sister, the parents thought her boyish style was just indicative of being a typical tomboy – until Aly came out as transgender. A week before her 15th birthday, Russie asked her if she “liked girls” and she told him she had been trawling the internet and believed she was transgender.
At the ripe age of 14, Aly told her mom, “I’ve figured out what’s going on with me. I know that I’m transgender. I’ve always wanted to be a boy. I never told you this, but when I was little, I would go to sleep and wish that I’d wake up a boy. Every time we did the wishbone at Thanksgiving and I won, I would wish that I was a boy.” With her mom’s unconditional support, Aly decided she would begin gender reassignment after high school, including an op to remove her breasts.
A month later, Russie broke down in tears as he told his parents that he was also transgender. After counseling, both decided to go ahead with the sex swap.
Now 20 and 17, Russie and Aly are known as Rai and Gavin, and their parents are thrilled that they now have two happy kids. Beth told Cosmopolitan mag: “People ask me what I’ve lost, but I don’t feel that I’ve lost anything. I have my son and daughter the way they should be.”
Proud dad Russ recalled the couple had hoped for a boy and a girl when starting a family back in Newcastle. He added: “As it so happened, we did have one of each — just in a different order than we originally thought.”
I wonder if the kids’ counseling included these statistics/findings:
- The transgendered person’s disorder is in the person’s “assumption” that they are different than the physical reality of their body, their maleness or femaleness, as assigned by nature.
- The so-called ‘confusion’ about sexuality that a teenager or adult has is purely psychological.
- A 2011 study showing that the suicide rate among transgendered people who had reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate among non-transgender people.
- The study showed that about 10 years after the surgery, transgendered people began to have increased mental difficulties.
- As transgendered people progressed through life, their suicide mortality rose almost 20 times above the comparable nontransgender population.
- Although the surgery is called “gender reassignment,” the surgery does no such thing.
- Dr. McHugh notes that studies from Vanderbilt University and London’s Portman Clinic of children who had expressed transgender feelings but for whom, over time, 70%-80% “spontaneously lost those feelings.”
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