A six-year old girl in Texas isn’t going to be a girl anymore, or at least as far as her dads are concerned. The child’s situation became a news story when two employees of day care center were fired after questioning how the owner of the facility was handling the situation.
A 6-year-old transgender student at a Katy daycare has sparked quite a discussion about how the school should address the issue with the child’s classmates. Two employees who disagreed with the way the private school owners was handling the situation were fired.
The parents requested that the school not to call their child a girl any longer. They asked that the child now be treated like a boy, and be referred to with a boy’s name. As the schools owner went about implementing the parents’ wishes, 2 employees expressed concern, and were fired.
Lloyd says the employees should have trusted the owner’s judgment.
“Clearly the daycare owner in this situation felt that this child’s parents were advocating on his behalf appropriately.”
Certainly the employer has the right to fire them, and that is of no concern to this post. It’s merely how the story came to be a story.
What is of interest is what RedState’s Erick Erickson wrote about this today:
This, well, this part is just total coincidence and unrelated at all and screw you, you hateful bigot if you dare to think there might be something more than biology at work:
One added element of the story is that the child’s parents are both men. FOX 26 has spoken with the couple. They did not want to discuss their situation, and we are not revealing their identity.
Just a totally pure coincidence. After all, they told us people are born gay, not turned gay. No, don’t you bring up the evidence. No. IT’S SCIENCE YOU BIGOT. SCIENCE!!!!
In all of the psychological babble over these still uncommon but becoming more common incidents, the very logical question of upbringing is dismissed out of hand. As Erick says, you are not allowed to question whether people are “born this way” baby. But that flies in the face of reason as well as thousand of years of observation. Not to mention actual science that indicates that gender dysphoria is actually uncommon. In fact not only is it uncommon, the risks of treating it with surgery are crazy high. So the incidence in the general population of people who suffer from the actual disorder to the point that it is worth the risk of transitioning is surpassing rare and into “almost not measurable” territory.
It is an amazing coincidence, then, that this girl raised by two gay men and no mother has “decided” that she, too, is a boy. Just like her daddies. And what am even more amazing coincidence that “My Two Dads” are ready to treat their six-year old girl as a boy with simply not enough time or research. You can say that with confidence, because it has only been six years since she was born. That is simply not long enough for such a dramatic change, especially one that could very well lead to later risky surgery when she is older (the natural logical aim of transgenderism/transexualism and especially trans activism in modern American society is physical treatment, such as hormone therapy and eventual surgery).
She is not mature enough to make this decision. I am a parent. Kids are terrible at decisions. They don’t know what they want. To allow a major life change like being treated as and referred to as a boy to be “decided’ by a child who isn’t even old enough to determine their own diet is absolutely absurd and irresponsible. But the “decision” is celebrated by activists and faux-experts like child psychologist “Dr.” Andrew Brams because oooh doesn’t it feel tingly to be tolerant. And because it helps adults validate their own decisions. My choice must be valid, even 6-year olds can tell.
But sure, we should definitely accept that the fact that the girl has two dads has no bearing on the six year old child wanting to be a boy. *Eyeroll*
It’s shameful. But that is the practice of mental health care in most places these days and leftist liberal activism everywhere. It is far more about validating or adhering to ideology than it is about anyone’s health and well-being. Even a little girl’s.