Today I read about a 12-year-old boy who wanted to be a girl. He/she convinced doctors and psychiatrists that he was a girl trapped in a boy’s body. This is creating an uproar amongst the ultra-conservative and religious right as they claim that this is a result of “homosexual agendas” and taking advantage of a confused individual to promote homosexuality. This leaves me with a head scratch. If he turns into a she, is she really gay if she decides to have relationships with men? I think not. I also don’t think this has anything to do with promoting a “homosexual agenda”. People are born with anomalies, abnormalities, disabilities and genetic malfunctions everyday, why would a criss-cross of x and y chromosomes be any different? Would you say to someone born with a heart defect that they couldn’t have corrective surgery because they would be promoting a cardiovascular agenda?

However, the real issue in my mind is whether or not a 12- or 14-year-old boy truly understands the severity and finality of the situation and the operation, and if they are mature enough to cope and reconcile with a host of very real and potentially difficult emotions.

I won’t even comment on how the taxpayers in Germany are footing the bill, because that’s their problem.

From The Daily Mail:

Even at the age of two, Tim insisted he was a girl trapped in a boy’s body.

And when puberty began to approach at the age of 12, he convinced his parents that something had to be done.

With their agreement, he became the youngest sex-change patient in the world, receiving hormone injections which arrested his male development

Now, at 14, Tim has become Kim – a blue-eyed blonde with a growing bust line who is allowed to wear make-up at weekends.

She has no boyfriends at present but her parents say she is interested in what, now, is the opposite sex.

Her treatment, which has cost £18,000 so far, is being funded by the German taxpayer.

Tim turned “Kim”, age 14

Photo from The Daily Mail

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