News Article: Transgender at five (5 years old. Not 5 O'clock News.)

[banjeaux]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/transgender-at-five/2012/05/19/gIQABfFkbU_story.html?hpid=z1

 

[SavannahDare]

It should be entitled Transgendered Prior to Birth.

 

[Bama4Ever831]

It should be entitled Transgendered Prior to Birth.

I think he was implying the exact opposite based on knowledge of his previous posts.

 

[mikes12]

There's something about this that I've never understood. How does a person 'feel' like they were born the other biologic sex from what their XX or XY chromosome designation determines? In other words, how does a person really have a point of reference of 'being' the other? This goes beyond whether they prefer trucks to dolls, sexual attraction, or a desire to pee standing up.

 

[cbi1972]

There's something about this that I've never understood. How does a person 'feel' like they were born the other biologic sex from what their XX or XY chromosome designation determines? In other words, how does a person really have a point of reference of 'being' the other? This goes beyond whether they prefer trucks to dolls, sexual attraction, or a desire to pee standing up.

Those who have it, according to the association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, experience “a persistent and intense distress about assigned sex, together with a desire to be (or insistence that one is) of the other sex. There is a persistent preoccupation with the dress and activities of the opposite sex and repudiation of the individual’s own sex.”

And, it adds, “mere tomboyishness in girls or girlish behavior in boys is not sufficient” to warrant the diagnosis. It requires “a profound disturbance of the normal gender identity.”

Addressed on page 2 of the article