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Date Posted: 22:44:55 05/30/15 Sat
Author: Aelita
Subject: There's no time like now -- don't put it off till lather
In reply to: Lisa 's message, "Re: Diagnosed transgirl" on 08:42:36 05/30/15 Sat

I don't think it's too early. There's not a lot of research on this but many kids begin to express gender preference at age three or four. More and more (sadly not yet all) parents are allowing their children to live as their professed gender. I've met old men in their sixties and seventies who think they have some kind of compulsion to be female and wear women's clothing and they spend years trying to be "cured" because their family and society told them they had to be male because that's what they looked like on the outside. We now know of course they are really female -- just think of what their lives could have been like if their parents and family and society did not force them to be something they were not meant to be all those years ago.

Kids learn about gender at an early age and there is strong subconscious pressure not to deviate from the perceived norm. If a little girl dresses up as a pirate people smile and laugh. If a little boy dresses up as a ballerina alarm bells go off.

Human sexuality is complex but you can't change a person's gender identity. Ever try to give your cat a bath? Well that's how most boys would react if you try and put them in a bra, panties, and a dress. If your (externally looking) "boy" is allowing you dress her as a female, then she's a girl and should be raised as such.

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Re: There's no time like now -- don't put it off till lather -- Michelle S., 14:35:48 07/01/15 Wed
- Re: There's no time like now -- don't put it off till lather -- Aelita, 22:02:17 07/02/15 Thu
  - Re: There's no time like now -- don't put it off till lather -- Michelle S., 22:07:24 07/08/15 Wed
    - Re: There's no time like now -- don't put it off till lather -- Aelita (Hopeful for the future), 13:21:20 07/09/15 Thu
      - Re: There's no time like now -- don't put it off till lather -- Astepdad (Ashamed), 20:29:49 07/21/15 Tue
        Re: There's no time like now -- don't put it off till lather -- Aelita, 13:56:32 07/24/15 Fri
        Re: There's no time like now -- don't put it off till lather Aelita ....my gosh.. -- Astepdad (not shocked...), 12:00:59 07/26/15 Sun