Transgender Camp For Children

Speed Read! Transgender Kids Attend Camp Just for Them

August 2, 2010

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16 Comments

I also agree with Mello38 and Tonii2010. Being a child can be hard enough when you reach a certain age. Who wants to be pushed or not listening too when it's time to talk about sexuality, if you are confused about yourself. I was also somewhat of a tomboy. I didn't want to be a girli girl because I didn't think it was much fun. It looked like the guys always had more fun and interesting things to do, so I wanted to be one of them. Still to this day I am a little tomboy, but I am NOT gay. I'm glad my parents were understanding and did not push me in either direction. They listened to me and allowed me to act like a boy. When I got in my teenage years I still didn't like boys (relationship wise). Then as a grown woman in my early 20's, I still didn't look at men like other women did. It took me until I was over 25 to get interested in men. And at NO time did I like women because I was not then and I still am NOT now, gay. I just wanted to be me. I did not want or need to be told I was gay or shipped off to a transgender type camp or group. I have nothing against any type of gay/transgendered person. But I do not agree with this type of transgendered camp for small children.

Tonii2010 2 years

I understand completely where Mello is coming from. When I was younger I was a tom boy and I wanted to be a boy and tried my best to do so. I was even labeled as gay by my peers and teachers. It was not that I was gay because at that time I didnt even know what gay was. I just knew then that was how I wanted to be. I got older and things changed. I am probably the girlish girl that you could ever find. Just because a child dresses and acts a certain way does not mean that that is how they are. With situations and thing like this we have to be careful because if a child is that way then we do not want them to hide what they really are and if a child is not that way then we do not want to confuse them.

2 years

You're taking the words "your kind" to another level. Sad, because I did not mean it in a rude manner. I basically meant anyone that is not heterosexual. Although I do believe that you truly know that already. You just want to argue but what I said stands, you just have to realize that not all children that are confused about sexually want to be pressured or called gay straight out. They need a helpful kind hand in order to help them slowly figure things out in private, then when they're truly ready they can *come out*. They do not need to be shipped off early to a transgender camp when they may not even be that way.

spacekatgal 2 years

"Your kind?" Yeah, you're a homophobe. God help your child.

2 years

I can tell that you are clearly bi-sexual/gay. Usually, some of your kind, gets all defensive and accuses other people that disagree with you as being uneducated. It's the typical impolite attitude. But some of you have to realize that everything you feel and think is NOT true when it comes to every child that is confused and needs parental guidance when they are unsure about their sexuality.

spacekatgal 2 years

I can tell you're making a good faith effort to communicate here, but I just think there is so much you don't understand. If you had a gay childhood, you would not have these attitudes. It's like you think that being transgender is glamorized, and all a parent has to do is guide their child and they won't be that way. It's a fundamentally false way of thinking, and really dangerous to a child's health. Being transgender is no more a choice than being straight is a choice. If you care to educate yourself, there are excellent books on the subject. Transgender children universally have terrible childhoods. It makes sense, because parents and society reward gender congruence and punish gender nonconformity. Transgender children learn very early on to lie about their feelings and try to fit in. Yet, at the same time they are overwhelmed with feelings of having to live as the wrong sex. They become withdrawn, sullen, and depressed. No one really knows who they are. It's like they're hiding a terrible secret. The developmental damage is extreme. If camps like this can help alleviate that, to give them a safe place to talk about their feelings - I don't see how it can be anything but a good thing. You are being judgmental, despite your pretty words. I deeply hope you don't have a gay or transgender child, because they are going to be permanently damaged by your attitude.

2 years

I didn't say the word "altered" but I did say guidance. If a child is unsure of how they feel then they should not be pushed into a direction that is unnatural just because it gives them an early chance to be called different. It may not be what the child needs. It's not something that a lot of them can get over easy once they find that being transgender is not what they were really feeling in the beginning, or even now that they're older. GIRLS need to be told that it's okay to feel like you want to a little tomboyish. That if you want to play ruff in sports like the boys or never wear high heels then that's okay. Many straight women feel this way. BOYS that don't want to become as rugged as the next young boy should not be pressured and told that they may be gay. Why enforce an attitude on a young child that doesn't know any better? Now you mentioned suicide Spacekat......... If your/anyone's child commits suicide then it should not be said that it's all THEIR fault. Parents should be held accountable. The rest of society isn't that innocent either. You push things that should not be. You glorify what is immoral just because it's colorful and fun for you for the moment, and then say that God said that it should be that way, just to make yourself feel better. The words are clearly stated. Parent's set the tone for their children's environment. It is their responsibility to make sure that it is a proper moral one as much as possible. Children cannot drive themselves to Transgender camps or to gay pride parades. Parents control television to a degree. They can block was is not appropriate for their children if they care. Again, if you cannot give children proper guidance then they should be removed from the home. We don't need anymore unstable people in society because you didn't know how to do your darn job as a parent.

spacekatgal 2 years

You don't know what you're talking about if you think it can be altered. The science on this is perfectly clear. You can either choose to accept your transgender child, or end up with a suicidal, depressed mess of a human being that will transition later in life, but less successfully. The very premise of guidance insinuates that it's a choice, which it is not. Who on earth would chose to be transgendered?

2 years

I don't think they should have a camp for this.

2 years

@#5 - Spackat People who push this type of activity are the ones who are "destroying the kids" mental abilities. They are the ones hindering them. Just because at first you want to be a tomboy as a child, doesn't mean a child is gay, it's normal. But if you push the little girl she may begin to think that she wants to be that way. Later when she begins to become even more confused because she doesn't feel fulfilled (because she's missing what's normal and what feels RIGHT for her as an individual/a grown woman), then it's the parents who are at fault, along with any other people that pushed her. Children need proper guidance and if you don't know how to give it then your child should be taken from you.

2 years

Why are people incouraging this type of behavior in small children. They need to be corrected in the proper manner.

spacekatgal 2 years

Yeah, that's the kind of judgmental BS that destroys these kids in permanent ways. I hope you grow up gay in your next life and learn some compassion.

2 years

Transgender camp........oh boy, how sad. Man and his offspring has surely fallen hard from TRUE morals and sanity. God has got to be REALLY pis*ed off by now at the human beings he created. He says DON'T and for centuries they DO anyway.

postmodernsleaze 2 years

I'm in college and college definitely doesn't mean you're out of touch with idiots. They are still crawling all over campus, ready to attack at any minute!