I Used to Be Transgender. Here’s My Take on Kids Who Think They Are Transgender.

By Walt Heyer

Transgender book

3rd grade transgender book. Photo courtesy flickr.com

When a 9-year-old boy who identifies as Stormi, a transgender girl, started selling Girl Scout cookies, one neighbor was not amused, according to Buzzfeed.

The neighbor rebuffed him, reportedly saying, “Nobody wants to buy Girl Scout cookies from a boy in a dress.”

The neighbor is being called transphobic—but perhaps the neighbor thought he was being pranked by a boy and reacted accordingly. Not everyone assumes that a boy in a dress selling Girl Scout cookies is transgender.

People Can Be Genderphobic

Stormi looked like a boy to the neighbor because he really is a boy. Transgender people may deceive themselves, but they do not deceive others.

Life in society is not some fantasy world where a boy should pretend he has magically transformed himself into a girl simply by uttering the words “I am a girl” and changing how he presents himself.

The people who strongly object to the honest reaction from a man saying, “Nobody wants to buy Girl Scout cookies from a boy in a dress” are perhaps gender-phobic, rejecting and ridiculing the reality of male and female genders.

The people who encourage very young kids to act out, switch genders, and live a life of pretend need to understand that Stormi could be suffering from a dissociative disorder, just as happened with me. My feelings of not wanting to be a boy started in early childhood as result of cross-dressing at the hands of my grandma.

Stormi could be in need of psychotherapy, not a dress.

Caregivers all too often collaborate with a mental disorder instead of treating it. Telling a psychologically troubled boy he has changed genders is not compassion, but can become reckless parenting. By withholding psychotherapy, parents could be abusing the kid.

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One Response to I Used to Be Transgender. Here’s My Take on Kids Who Think They Are Transgender.

  1. P. S. April 26, 2016 at 2:41 am #

    Leave us to our choices and we leave you to your faith.

    World is for living, not hiding what we want to be and do behind criticism of religious groups and political groups.

    We arent a people, we arent different to anyone else. We simply dont identify by whats in our pants or under our shirts, we identify by what we feel.

    Pleasantly yours,

    P.S

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