Poster Child for Same-Sex Adoption

[Ms Tree]

You really need to pick an argument and stick with it. Your original argument was against gay adoption. Now you are arguing against the hormone treatment and questioning roll models.

I have not seen any studies that covered the parents of transgender children but Chas Bono had hetero parents as does Josie Claudine Romero so I am not sure where you are drawing the conclusion that it must be the gay parents from. I am sure you have some studies to back up your assertion right?

As for the hormone treatment. I'm not sure how that works. If nature screwed up and this is a girl in a boys body then the treatment might make the transition easier down line. If nature did not screw up and this is a social or mental disorder then the hormones could pose a risk. Of course the article linked on FOX is incomplete. We do not know if there has been any medical diagnosis or anything else about the family other than the parents are gay (no causal link shown), the child is on hormone blockers (prescribed, diagnosed...? who knows?), and a FOX staff editor thinks it is a bad idea (big surprise there. Never saw that coming).

 

[Veritas]

If nature did not screw up and this is a social or mental disorder then the hormones could pose a risk. Of course the article linked on FOX is incomplete. We do not know if there has been any medical diagnosis or anything else about the family other than the parents are gay (no causal link shown), the child is on hormone blockers (prescribed, diagnosed...? who knows?), and a FOX staff editor thinks it is a bad idea (big surprise there. Never saw that coming).

The article in the Daily Mail provides more detail.

The little boy who started a sex change aged eight because he (and his lesbian parents) knew he always wanted to be a girl

The mothers say that one of the first things Thomas told them when he learned sign language aged three - because of a speech impediment - was, 'I am a girl'.

At age seven, after threatening genital mutilation on himself, psychiatrists diagnosed Thomas with gender identity disorder. By the age of eight, he began transitioning.

This summer, he started taking hormone-blocking drugs, which will stop him from experiencing puberty.

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Ms Moreno recalled the first step of Thomas' transition to becoming female by letting him pick his own clothes.

He favoured headbands to baseball hats and picked out bras and dresses to start wearing when given choice in clothing to wear. And the change in his personality, Ms Moreno says, was instant.

'He was in his own world just completely detached and that was a problem we always had was getting Thomas to participate in life,' she said. 'What we saw emerge when Tammy was allowed to be Tammy is, "Whoa!"... It was an immediate transformation. She was so giggly and she was now interacting she was now making it a point to defend herself.'

The diagnosis has been hard to accept for Tammy's parents.

The couple were married in 1990 by a rabbi and have two older sons and grandchildren. But they insist their sexuality has nothing to do with it.

'It was odd to us,' she said. 'Even though she has lesbians as parents, this is all new to us in every possible way. We know what it's like to feel different - we've got that one. But to feel like you're not in the right body was just something we could not put our heads around.'

 

[Ms Tree]

It would appear that FOX might have missed a few things.