Transgendered 10-Year Old - Happier as a girl

[AmericanDream]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0...&ncid=webmail2

I saw this article when I was checking my mail. Maybe some people here would like to read the article or watch the video.

[Buzz]

Jackie's story and several others will be on ABC News Primetime Nightline this evening (31 August). I hope that the show's producers will choose for insight instead of sensationalism...

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/extraor...ry?id=14414656

[BellaBellucci]

Jackie's story and several others will be on ABC News Primetime Nightline this evening (31 August). I hope that the show's producers will choose for insight instead of sensationalism...

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/extraor...ry?id=14414656

Dude. It's Nightline, not Faux News.

~BB~

[south09]

That's true but news media across the entire spectrum has mishandled transgender-based features in the past.

[OmarZ]

That's true but news media across the entire spectrum has mishandled transgender-based features in the past.

circus freak approach

[BellaBellucci]

ABC has been sensitive to the issue in the past:



~BB~

[NaughtyJane]

I think the media in some cases has been getting a little better at this.
There was a 20/20 piece on homeless youth, 1 of the kids was a trans girl... they treated her fairly just like the other 3 kids represented in the piece. She was 13/14 in my town, living with the horrific...they state on the show 30% of homeless youth are trans!! The show is listed on hulu, having been re aired in the last week or two.

I know she takes a ton of heat, but Barbara Walters did a show on trans kids a couple years ago that I thought was well handled... She was super sweet to the kids, insightful with the parents... at the time I was surprised and impressed. When I see this sort of cultural advance... I honestly feel it deeply, get a little misty.

I think really most of a mainstream television audience is not intellectually equipped to even absorb, and digest the complexities of these matters. Nor do they want to.

I also am of the opinion that sensationalizing sex crimes acts as an encouragement, or advertisement for borderline personalities to give it a shot.

[Nicole Dupre]

I'm reading the comments on the FB Huff Post newsfeed, and some of them are nauseating. It's no shock to me that some dumb bitch, with a red, white, and blue elephant as a default pic, suggested the child be taken away from her parents.

I wish abortion was suggested to every pregnant woman, who's too lazy and stupid to do a little research on readily available topics such as transgenderism. Instead, they bury their empty heads in fairy tales custom-built for chumps, such as the bible and the GOP platform. I can't wait until these useless people go extinct.

[Nicole Dupre]

Now THAT'S a mother. God bless her for telling those latent faggot witch doctors what time it is.

[lovesall]

Saw the Primetime Nightline story and it was great how the parents are understanding of their children. Also interesting was the story of the man who had SRS not once but twice from a man to woman and then a man again, and he has a younger girlfriend now.