Changing attitudes towards kids who aren't gender typical.

December 3, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/02/us/02child.html [How long before such things become common in India? Not long, I would say as children, and their parents, are assaulted by chemical medicines, industrial pollutants and pesticides. We should not restrict ourselves to debating how such issues can be tackled. We should hunt for the reasons and try to restrict the trend. - Jagannath] Children as young as 5 who display predispositions to dress like the opposite sex are being supported by a growing number of young parents, educators and mental health professionals. Doctors,

some of them from the top pediatric hospitals, have begun to advise families to let these children be “who they are” to foster a sense of security and self-esteem. They are motivated, in part, by the high incidence of depression, suicidal feelings and self-mutilation that has been common in past generations of transgender children. Legal trends suggest that schools are now required to respect parents’ decisions. “First we became sensitive to two mommies and two daddies,” said Reynaldo Almeida, the director of the Aurora School, a progressive private school in Oakland. “Now it’s kids who come to school who aren’t gender typical.” The supportive attitudes are far easier to find in traditionally tolerant areas of the country

like San Francisco than in other parts, but even in those places there is fierce debate over how best to handle the children. Vaccination procedures are a politically motivated non-science, whose practitioners are only interested in injecting multitudes of vaccines without much interest or care as to their effects. Data collection on reactions to vaccines is only paid lip service, and the obvious ineffectiveness of vaccines to prevent diseases is glossed over. The fact that natural infectious diseases have beneficial effect on the maturation and development of the immune system is ignored or deliberately suppressed. Consequently, parents of small children and any potential recipients of vaccines and any orthodox medications should be wary of any member of the medical establishment extolling the non-existent virtues of vaccination. - Viera Scheibner, Ph.D.

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