There have been a couple of interesting articles in the DT recently.
The first tells of a 5 year old boy called Zach who has decided, since the age of 3, that he is really a girl. Parents, NHS doctors and psychologists and teachers all seem to have agreed that he suffers from GID, Gender Identity Disorder. He has been officially diagnosed as such.
The second tells of a 42 year old women who engaged in consensual sex with two boys aged 13 and 14 as a reward for vandalising the car of her rival. She is being prosecuted for ‘three counts of sexual activity with a child’. The prosecutor said, “the boys had been willing participants, but were not legally capable of giving their consent. At the age of 13 a lot of boys have hormones coursing through their veins and are perfectly capable and willing to have sex but they are mentally immature.”
So, a 5 year old boy is able to determine that he was born with a gender disorder, but two boys, 13 and 14, are not able to determine that they want to get laid.
Funny that!
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I do not believe in GID. Really, I don’t. Anatomical sex is generally quite easy to determine. If, in between the legs, there’s something hanging it’s a boy. If not, it’s a girl. No amount of surgery or medication can change the fact that there is still a Y-chromosome in a man’s body. Nor can that second X-chromosome be ignored vis-a-vis the female version of this.
The way that Western societies have been structures is at times simplistic, something which promotes a sort of freakishness. Most scholarship on the faults of the binary view of gender has also been absolute tosh.
Rather than accepting that not everything falls into box 1 or 2, there is an insistence on forcing the person to destroy her/his own natural state.
Well, actually, I do believe in GID, although I really would question the case of a five year old suffering from this.
I knew a chap, some years ago, who reaching puberty, was quite convinced he was a women who had the misfortune to be in a body that was anatomically male. He married and had children, and in his sixties he decided he wanted to be female openly instead of just dressing the part. So after years of counselling, and discussions with his family he went through various painful operations to achieve this end.
His wife and children were pretty shocked, but very supportive. I found the whole situation sad, actually, and I have no idea if they are all still together.
The judge in the case of the boys must be off his head or not understand 13/14 year old boys. At that age any boy would leap at the chance.
I had intercourse for the first time when I was 14 with a woman who was about 20 who picked me up at the local disco. Not saying it was that successful but for a 14 year old well,…that’s all I’ll say.
I agree that we are, most of the time, governed by what is biological; our hormones – some of us more than others…
But who is to say what we are? Who can truly define the boundaries of physical , physiological, and emotional within us? The truth is that no one knows why we are what we are. Or as Shakespeare put it, what a piece of work is a man…
In my opinion GID is a result of an unhealthy cultural attitude. In many Native American cultures there were “two spirited” people — anatomically one sex, but possessing the soul of the other. It isn’t a “disorder”, it is a gift, a blessing — if a mixed one. They are often able to mediate between the two sexes and are also given the ability to guide people spiritually. I can’t help but thinking how tragic it is that we are still so narrow-minded that we can’t find a place for people as they naturally are and compel them to disfigure themselves, to fight against what nature gave them.
I’m afraid i have to report backside’s opinion here – that the family of the wannabe girl need to get out more and stop penalising their kid. I knew a family while I was teaching who allowed a boy to insist on wearing odd socks and to refuse to draw anything inside a frame. (Yes, really) The ideas had clearly been injected into his young brain by his screwy parents who were not averse to the regular use of narcotic substances.
As far as the lucky lads are concerned, Backside has expressed nothing but envy.