It’s sick how disgusting some of the minds of america are. Just wait until we become the next rome, because we didn’t stick to our godly roots.

This doctor is nuts and i don’t care what anyone says you have to let these kids at least grow up to adults to make such a big choice.

This is complete garbage and another example of what has happened since the medical community continues to try to soldier on without God!!! Humanism = man is the measure of all things. This is what they want and adhere to.

These are some really sick and perverted Doctors. The physician who thinks that the twins prove that this is a medical concern sounds like a complete fool. I feel sad for these children when they are adults and realize that physicians with a political view butchered them.

It is disgusting, degrading, and just plain wrong yo’.

some people need to understand that some things are just wrong even if there are no laws against it.

This disgusts me!

Its just cosmetic surgery. If a kid isnt happy with its gender, and its OK with the parents, who are we to tell them what to do? Naturally some would say this is wrong and abusive. As long as no laws are being broken….live and let live. I personally think its an atrocity!!!

They can say what they want, transgenderism is a birth defect. A girl is born who’s body should’ve been a boy and vice versa. I’m happy to see medical science finally recognizing this and doing something about it. I know someone personally who has felt that he has been in the wrong body all his life. Since his earliest memories. He is 11 years old now and having a great deal of difficulty fitting in to the life his parents, particularly his father feels he should belong. “He” is a beautiful little girl, but in a year or two “he” is going to be a troubled young man. Children don’t make this stuff up.

Transgender is hard to understand in adults, much less in children. I don’t know if a sex change is appropriate for those who are cognitively not fully developed – which does not come until mid-20s for many – but to allow a child to live in the role of the opposite gender should not be a problem. And delaying the onset of puberty can benefit these children, giving them time to make up their minds. The sex change may not be appropriate, but delaying puberty can help. To discriminate against transgendered people in general or children specifically is exactly that – discrimination!

you have got to be fu&*(( kidding….

Minors cannot consent to a legal contract, drive a car or be married and have no business acting out about their born gender. It is evil that these same kids are being permanently maimed by parents and doctors who wish to suspend reality because of their own psychoses.

This article made my heart ache. Our children already face almost insurmountable odds with all the negative external, evil forces. Now there is someone who offers a totally barbaric option to a child who seems to not “fit in.” Where is God in all this? I think this physician is playing God. I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but families do not treat their children “identically.” I just hope this physician and any parent who would even consider this option will come to their senses before they create even deeper problems for our precious children. I know that for eternity they will have to answer for their choices.

i’m always amazed by the number of people who truely believe that God’s works can somehow be ‘improved’ by humans….hehehe.

Clearly the 2nd coming of Christ is near

Doesn’t the test with identical twins, one of which thought she was a boy, DISPROVE that it’s an innate gene? If they’re identical, it means genetically identical. So even if they grew up in the same environment (something that cannot be guaranteed – since no one can prevent absolutely neglect, verbal, emotional or sexual abuse which would disrupt the natural development of sexual integration) it can’t be an innate cause since one identical twin developed this identity disorder and the other didn’t.

My seven year old thinks he is a fire engine. I hear there is a garage that does a procedure…..

How horrible!!! How many of us wanted to be the opposite gender when we were kids? What about all the tomboys out there who grew up to be beautiful, graceful women? The sissy boys who grew up to be great, sensitive, men? This is a sin against God Almighty, and these kids will be the victims.

Any idiot who contends its all in the mind and society in cross gendered people is either blind or in massive denial. A 5 yr old doesn’t choose to be different, the same 10 year old doesn’t choose to be different, they just are; at that point their sexuality isn’t mandated by what is around them. Science has proven cross gendering is genetic whether the nay-sayers believe it or not. And trying to brainwash someone into believing they are something they are not is just abusive.
As to the treatments, I don’t think it is a good choice. Children are growing and learing and changing and sometimes, they do change. But forcing the issue one way of the other (treatment to prevent puberty or brainwashing to convince them they are wrong) shouldn’t be done until they are adults. Be supportive of your childrens feelings, don’t judge and don’t treat; just help them and they will make the right choice for themselve when they are able, as adults

I hope this goes no farther than a story. How barbaric and sick have humans become that we think we can take the place of God in altering the human body of which God gave us. These children need love and counseling, not surgery. This doctor will pay his dues on judgement day….

We’re a nation where unborn children are murdered for convenience, for “woman’s right to choose”, and for a lack of faith that God has a bigger plan in mind. So, I am in no way surprised that a liberal city such as Boston (whose liberal citizens have since perverted the national history & original intent of the founding fathers) is now resorting to such child abuse under the guise of “medical treatment.”

There is NO proof that “transgenderism” is a genetic trait. It, along with homosexuality, is a choice made by an individual, who after many choices to deny reality and blame everyone but themselves, has resigned themselves to the excuse that they were born this way.

To say that a child, as young as 3 years old, has the frame of mind to want a sex-change operation, and then to permit such operation/therapy as a parent or so called “medical professional” (one who is out for personal gain and notoriety), is simply ungodly, barbaric, and downright demonic.

Go ahead…prove me wrong. I dare you.

I just wonder, how many of these so called transgendered children are from same sex couple homes? Could it just be possible, that these parents are using their children as pawns to further their deviant lifestyles?

All I can say is wow!!!!

Most normal children have coping issues with the reality of puberty. But if the definition of psychosis is beleiving that which is not real, changing these poor mentally disabled kids is not treatment but a capitulation to their disorder.
These children can’t buy a car, sign a contract or vote, but they get to make this kind of permanent decision? Their parents and doctors SHOULD be brought up on abuse charges….the behavior is so much more evil than drugs or polygamy!

It is not up to a parent or a doctor to decide what sex a child “should” be, the decision is in God’s hands. Maybe instead of introducing new drugs and hormones to these confused children, we should be introducing the Word of God to them.

Sorry, but having quotes from Mat Staver in a news article on a health/medical topic is a bit absurd. Providing the insight of doctors, psychiatrist, or patients is helpful – commentary by some fundie lawyer is just a distraction.

good for them!! this has been a stigma too long!! these people need a good hospital and doctor they can go to and people know what sex they really are at a young age..and it should be addressed early instead of suffering in the wrong body into their 30’s or older

This is crazy. How can we permit a child who is 7 years old to make a decision that will change his life. I’m a Christian and believe that God created man and woman. If a child is not permitted to vote or drink at a certain age. How can we permit a child to make a decision to change his sex. Which I am against at any age. We are messing with the creation that God created.

I think the parents and the doctor performing these acts are sick. This needs to be stopped and these children need help quick! We need to bring up a generation that is secure about their identity and that is devoted to our Father God. God has given us these children to raise and to show them the way back to our Father God. God made you a male, then I believe you are intended to be a male. God has a purpose for all of us and if we don’t wake up and see the truth on what it is the enemy will steal our generation. God Bless.

My children were not old enough at age 14 to decide which parent they would live with, and this was established in a court of law. How can you say a child of 7 is old enough to determine their entire sexual future? I wanted to be a boy when I was little, some of us were tomboys and boy stuff was much more fun. I out grew that and am quite happy being a woman. Thank God you weren’t around or I might have been turned into a boy and never have known the fufillment of being a Mom.

What kind of sick freak would take thier child for a sex change?
I think this doctor should be jailed as a threat to children!

NOW THE HOMOSEXUAL MOFIA IS OUT TO TURN OUR CHILDREN INTO TRANSVESTITE FREAKS!
ITS A SICK AND DISTURBING WORLD THESE PEOPLE LIVE IN!

I’d say the homosexualization of children has gone a tad far now. Not only are they pushing adult sex on five year olds; now they are chopping their giblets at seven years old.

If US families continue to let social engineering radicals get away with this sexual abuse of kids in the name of homosexual adults, it is really going to be a road of sorrow and regret ten years from now when we have to face the aftermath. Being called bad names by radicals for standing up against the radicals’ child sex agenda is nothing compared to what the kids are going to suffer at the hands of these radicals.

Wake up! Doctors are now sexually mutulating manipulated children in the name of mainstreaming and normalizing adult gender bending! Having been a mom, I know that I had the power to influence my kids to think and do just about anything. I know the power of influence that activist school teachers have on kids as well. Families better protect them – NOW!

This is barbaric, evil & unChristian.

There are people out there who fantasize about being some sort of amputee. They want limbs or parts of limbs amputated because that’s how they would feel better about themselves.
These people are immediately prescribed heavy drugs, counseling and other “Re-education” of their brain to accept they way they look and feel good about themselves. IOW, they’re treated like mental patients.
Yet, if you want to cut off your penis or remove your uterus, and alter your body with hormone injections to make you feel better, the doctors are all with you. Apparently, drastically transforming your body from the molecular level up is perfectly acceptable, but asking the doctor to remove a leg, well… you’re just being crazy!!! WHY?
The gay lifestyle is shoved down our throat (pun intended) every turn because a small minority thinks that it’s all normal.
Everything living has only one common goal: to procreate. If it can’t it dies, becomes extinct. So being homosexual is UNNATURAL and WRONG.

I guess these children should be albe to drink, smoke, vote and what else an adult could decide, why do we even parents. This Doctor is sick children cannot even explain what sex is let alone determine if they want to a girl or boy. He should be jailed as well as the parents.

This is outrageous.

Poor little boys & girls that “feel” like the opposite sex simple need confident, self assured parents to come alongside them, tell them they love them, and inform them that in fact they are a boy/girl. The biology is there. All the rest of the sexuality-oriented mindgames people force-feed kids are a pile of PC garbage that the depraved push on everyone else in order to try to make themselves feel better about their own depravity.

Any parent or physician that participates in this should be charged with a crime. Call it child abuse of assult, either way it’s harmful and damaging. In Massachusetts you even can’t get a Tattoo until your 18 years old, even if a parent gives consent. But, it’s okay for a physician to perform a sex change, chemical or physicial, without restirctions. This is insane!

This is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS!!! A child at seven years of age has no idea at all what they “want” to be sexually, or in any other realm of life. How many times in a year does a child change their idea of what they want to be in a job when they grow up?

This doctor is a quack and only in it for the money; surely he doesn’t have any child’s best interest at heart. For ANY parent to even allow a child under the age of eighteen to consider this is unfit. I was a severe tomboy as a girl (and still am!). I am so glad this wasn’t an issue when I was young – I might have been mutilated into a man, and not have the fabulous husband I have.

This is SICK.

When I was a kid, I wasn’t confused- I knew I liked girls. But the boy who, in kindergarten, wanted to play super heros as wonder woman is… surprise… gay! People are what they are. What’s barbaric is not letting them accept who they are and live as such. Bless those doctors for fixing those kids! Your god must have taken a sick day when they were born.

This is the result of Atheism. Is this not the same state that has been electing Ted Kennedy for what, 40 years? Hey Ted give someone else in your district a chance.

TERM LIMITS would revolutionize the political system.

As a father of a child with gender identity issues it has been crystal clear from around age 3 that my child was made differently. He is one of 3 sons, all of which have been raised in a loving Christian and conservative home with loving parents and never any neglect of any form. Two of my three sons act completely normal and masculine while the third is completely a girl in every way. The Christian community seems to, and probably always will, have the hardest time with this issue, but their assessments and recommendations are harmful, out of date and out of touch. To listen to a simpleton like Falwell’s group or James Dobson, I could cure this if I only rough housed with my son more or if he had stronger male role models. In our case this is totally and completely false and I worry the life my son will endure because of the misinformation of the religious right and closed minded people from all backgrounds who will subject him to ridicule and worse. He didn’t ask to be made like this, so the least we can do as a society is to be open minded, educate ourselves and find ways to help him, not make him feel like a monster. My wife and I have chosen to wait until our son gets a little older to explore options and I think age 7 seems a little too young for a child to make any kind of rational decision on an extreme transformation like this but I clearly think this Doctor is providing a service that is necessary in some cases and at some ages.

Please! We don’t let children vote, drink or smoke cigarettes because they are too young to make that kind of decision.
Most states don’t allow a child to get a piercing or a tattoo until they are 18 without parental consent.

Next thing you know if a 12 year old wants to start becoming a prostitute of his or her own choice somebody will try to make it legal.

How many times does a kid decide, I want to be a fireman, just to change their mind in a year and become an astronaut, then when they are 15 they want to be a rockstar, skateboard hero or a sniper in the Corps.

Get real doctor “lets make a name for myself”…..

How amusing and politically correct.
The funniest thing will be the good doctor, his lawyership and the little patients’ parents standing before the White Throne and trying to justify their actions. Love to be around to hear that. Hope they pack their asbestos underwear.
The “adults” supposedly know the difference between right and wrong. Their problem. The kids…collateral damage.
Lass’ ihn, Lass’ ihn.
The books will balance.

I find this Doctor to be very disturbing. Shouldn’t he be helping them to find out why they feel the way they do, instead to giving them sex changing medications!!!!! This is quite disgusting!!!!!!!!!!

up till age 7 or 8 my daughter wanted to be a boy, she dressed like a boy, acted like a boy, tried to tell people she was a boy. She’s now 12 and she’s alllllllllllllllll girl. It’s a phase they go through and to put kids on drugs for every little thing in thier lives rather than teach them to cope is assinine. WTF. I wanted to be a duck when I was a kid, good thing my parents have the brains the good Lord gave them. That Dr. is a $$$ monger and nothing more, he should be ashamed of himself.

This is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS!!! A child at seven years of age has no idea at all what they “want” to be sexually, or in any other realm of life. How many times in a year does a child change their idea of what they want to be in a job when they grow up?

This doctor is a quack and only in it for the money; surely he doesn’t have any child’s best interest at heart. For ANY parent to even allow a child under the age of eighteen to consider this is unfit. I was a severe tomboy as a girl (and still am!). I am so glad this wasn’t an issue when I was young – I might have been mutilated into a man, and not have the fabulous husband I have.

By the way – a person can’t decide whether they are a Democrat or a Republican until the age of eighteen, they can’t enlist in the military until the age of eighteen, they can’t drink until the age of nineteen or twenty-one, why the hell should they be able to pick a sex change until the age of eighteen.

This is SICK.

Well society has finally revived the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, the most ludicrous idea. Why not human cloning now, it’s only the logical next step, build kids in the laboratory, make sure they’re the right sex they are supposed to be. It seems modern medicine has advanced to the Deity level. Unbelievable!

and Nero stroked his fiddle bow as Rome slowly burned

This article has made me sick. A wonderful hospital like Children’s allows this garbage to go on? This forces me to seriously reconsider my annual donation. Surely there are more worthy institutions.

We are a sad and sick society that just keeps getting sadder and sicker.
God help us!!

I feel it is totally wrong for doctors and parents to play God. God does NOT make mistakes. Who are parents and doctors to think God has made a mistake by giving a child the wrong gender!!!

This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard all day. My preschool aged boy talks about how he is “mommy”, and my toddler girl is a tomboy at times. Should I take them to Boston and start their treatment right away? This is sick, disgusting, wrong on so many levels. God made my boy a boy and my girl a girl. I’m pretty sure He knew what he was doing.

Good gracious, I wondered how long it would be until the knuckle dragging religious nuts would come out and post their Dogma and ignorance . . . obviously it didn’t take long. Please evolve. And while your at it, read the whole Bible and live by every barbaric word in it (slavery, rape, murder, torture, etc.) or keep your unsophisticated opinions to yourself. “God please save me from your people”

The doc is no-doubt more troubled than his patients.

A shining example of why this country may get Barry Hussein Obama as president.

Who are doctors or parents in thinking that God has made a mistake is the gender He gave these children and that they can fix it. I think this is totally wrong because God does NOT make mistakes.

Wow. What IS this world coming to? As a professional in the field of psychology I am amazed and disappointed in this man. Where have this country’s eithics and morals gone? All I can say right now is…wow.

PURELY BARBARIC!!!! What parent would even entertain such an idea is beyond human comprehension!

Supposing that these youths are prepared to “decide” their gender for themselves, is it time to allow them to choose whether to enter the military, drink alcohol, vote in election? If the child is prepared mentally and physically to “decide” their gender, is it time to let them judge whether or not to attend school? Should they ever have curfews? Should we resist their joining gangs?

Were the children in Hitler’s Juniors allowed to freely choose for themselves? Were they fully informed about the political and social view of their beloved dictator? Had they the emotional and mental experience which only years of life can bring?

Does anyone remember what happened in Nazi Germany? The evil doctor experimented on children as young as 2yrs of age. The barbaric surgery and experiments this evil doctor did to those children were beyond comprehension.
I do not remember this doctor’s name, but someone needs to study history and what was happening in Nazi Germany before the allies invaded. I believe this evil doctor escaped to either Argentina or Brazil, changed his name, and was living a quiet life with his family and grandchildren. It took years to finally find this evil man and bring him to justice. Why would anyone calling themself a doctor want to even consider doing a sex change on a child? For the love of humanity, let these children have a childhood. Yea, when I was 7, I wanted to be a boy. I was a tomboy, but thank God, I outgrew my tomboy ways. I met my ex-husband while I was stationed in the Army at Ft. Sam Houston, TX. I have 4 grown children and 9 grandchildren. I’m glad I’m a woman.
Doctor, don’t you dare touch these children. Maybe someone needs to perform a sex change on you and see how you like it.

It is bad enough that the media is already influencing our kids… “You have to be thin to be popular,” “pretty to get attention,” “all grown up in pictures to sell a song, etc., ” but now, to have someone influencing the future of a child in such a way that they may be confused for the rest of their lives, is crazy. How on earth can we play God with such an important decision? IF, and I say that cautiously, IF a child becomes an adult, and is questoning their gender, then by all means, they should get counceling, etc. But, I honestly don’t think the majority of our kids would ever even question such a thing, if the “choices, options, etc.” weren’t portrayed all over the media. When you plant ideas/thoughts/options into a kids’ mind, of coarse they may think about and question their being… you’re telling them in a sense that “hey, there might be a better option for you, in case you hadn’t already thought about it.” LOL

The Chinese will love this, isn’t it preferred to have only one child and that it be male. Will the parents be allowed to make this decision? Screwing around with mother nature has never been a good idea.

here’s a “doctor” that obviously needs to be found floating in a river. where is his office?

There is biological backing to transgender, it’s not always just something in someone’s mind. Most people who are transgender and go through the procedure are monitored by doctors and psychologists for years to see if this is a manifestation of a mental problem or has biological roots. A girl who is exposed to a lot of testosterone in the womb will take on male characteristics in their development but otherwise look like a normal girl.

To say that transgender is wrong is to say that hermaphidites are unnatural. These procedures are nothing like the one mentioned in the article about choir boys in the dark ages because that was not always done voluntarily. This procedure would be done under close scrutiny because of the nature of the operation and the vulnerability of the patient.

Also, those invoking God in all this: Where does it talk about transgender in the Bible? I must have missed that every Sunday of my life. Also, think about Job, God allowed Satan to test him and change his life, who says that having a child born physically as a boy but the soul of a girl make it God’s work?

Which is the worse ’sin’ in your eyes: to commit suicide because they’re unhappy with their physical appearance and unable to get help or to change what they look like on the outside and be happy? To me it’s all in God’s hands and not for me or any of you to judge.

This is just another example of the direction our society is going-further downhill- and some in the medical profession are pushing it along bigtime. This is absolutely perverted medicine.

This is absurd! Kids are kids, and cannot make a choice like this as a child. This is an excuse that disgruntled parents who “never got that son” can brainwash their girls into thinking they are ‘really boys’ and can turn nature’s plan into garbage. I’m glad there a some of us out in the world who are willing to raise our kids normal at least.

With the inability to reproduce, this is the best way to grow the gay community.

Ridiculous…. absolutely absurd!

I think some people are confusing gender disorder, which is a mental issue, with children who are born with a gene that makes them either male or female, but with the wrong genitalia, a true medical condition. What these Doctors are talking about is changing the sex of a child because it feels a certain way. Shame on them!

I feel that we are forgetting who created us “God” if we all had “GOD” in our lives this would not be happening!!

And one wonders why this country is so screwed up! Sometimes you have to deal with the cards your delt with!

God help us! This is truly a sign of the end times. We’re a physician family and this is horrifying. This is about $$$$ for Boston Children’s, up till now, a first class facility. Letters of disgust should be written to this hospital.

This is just wrong and definitely child abuse. A very small percentage of children are born with an indeterminate gender. They used to be called hermaphrodytes. The medical profession would then assign the most likely or most obvious gender and handle medical procedures to reinforce that gender appropriately. But that is so very, very rare.

Many children go through phases of thinking about being or wishing they were the opposite sex but pass through them to be completely normal. What adults do about gender switching is bad enough, but to do that to a child is heinous. Legislation should be enacted to prevent it.

This world gets sicker every day. Doctors who became doctors to play God should be thrown out of the medical profession.

I am very encouraged by the amount of outrage this story has stirred up. I was beginning to worry that fewer and fewer people understood the reality behind sex changes.

Keri,

Don’t misquote the Bible. Obviously you need to re-read the Bible since you never caught the point that God does not make mistakes. If he put a soul in a girls body, then He meant it to be a girl. To say that He put the soul in the wrong body would be saying that He makes mistakes, which would say that He is not perfect. Thus all of Christianity would be undermined. Boys are boys, and girls are girls. My daughter barks like a puppy, but that does not mean I am going to allow her to live outside and eat dog food and hire a doctor to affix dog ears to her. Insane!

Take heed! Jesus said in regards to harming children “It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.” (Luke 17:2). Woe unto these doctors, parents, and supporters of these perversions to God’s gifts to us – our children, who we are commanded to protect!

there is no god…humans should be allowed to do whatever they want. god is a fiction that has been created over time to make people believe they can attempt to understand what they do not. quit hiding behind god because you fear something. i will say that i think this procedure shoudl be done after 18 and of legal age

Didn’y Hitler’s doctors do experiments like these during WWII?

Reckless, irresponsible, out of control, insane! This quack should have his license revoked! God, please save us from this insanity.

Wow, posters on this site – stop sounding off about something you don’t know anything about and get educated about gender dysphoria. It’s not new, it’s been studied extensively, it isn’t the product of deviant homes, it doesn’t go away in those who have it; it’s almost certainly genetic or biochemical in origin (male children begin as females in the womb and require chemical triggers to become male) and it’s not a matter of choice. Children who have this condition are not simply play-acting and going through a phase; they are going through torture. Open your minds, read the medical literature, acquire some sympathy – and that especially goes for those of you posting on this site who invoke religion at the drop of the hat to tell everyone else how to live.

In all my days, with one or two exceptions, I have never read a listing of replies as ignorant,un-informed, mean spirited and just plain stupid as the ones I have just read to the Boston transgender article. Transgender is thought, by a host of very respected doctors, to be the result of certain problems in the hormone washing of the brain of the fetus during development. As a result, the body develops as one gender, and the brain develops as the other. It has nothing to do with God, morals, the end of time or someone wanting to be a fire engine, as one rocket scientist suggested!

It is not a whim, a fad, or a faze these kids go through. These kids live in virtual hell in school and in public because of the confusion in which they live, being always taunted, bullied, beat-up, and made the brunt of ridicule, by many of the same bible-thumping neanderthals who left replies here today – always talking about God, but afraid to live His message of love, understanding and compassion. You should be ashamed of yourselves – I have no doubt He is!

While I do believe there must be limits on age, medical standards in this country do not currently permit transgendered surgery until later teens, however, early hormonal intervention can go a long way in saving many young lives that would otherwise be lost due to the fear and hate rampant in our society today. Like it or not – those are the facts.

I love how all these people think they speak for God! How sorely disappointed you will be when you find that God’s message was about LOVE not hate! And who are you to say that God did not create someone as transgender? People are born with all types of disabilities you can’t possibly be so ingnorant as to be unaware of this. And by the stupid logic of not changing the body God gave you, would your reject treatment of cancer? Please STOP trying to speak for God. The truth is you speak for YOU and you people are just hateful. Where you don’t have to agree with what everyone else does you do have to accept it and play nice. Frankly, the more hate you guys spew the more the rational people in this country get turned off by your so called religion. And realize that science, I know you don’t believe in science, shows that their are actual verifiable differences in the transgender that require they change to the correct gender. Please stop trying to force your undeducated views on everyone. Let individuals, families, and doctors figure out what is best for these kids and take your mysticism somewhere else!

So sad!! What is this world coming to? Dear God, please help us!!!! These are children. They need guidance and counseling not life altering and damaging medications!

I empathize with all of you that for one reason or another think that this transgresses God’s will.

I felt that way strongly myself for the longest time in my childhood and growing up because that was what I was told. As a child of five I did not want to be different, I wanted to have everyone accept me for who I was, a little girl, and when they wouldn’t I would ask God why. Eventually I just withdrew, I became an unhappy kid and an even unhappier adult and no form of solace was enough, my trust and faith in God was not enough.

The reason is that this condition never goes away. Can we repress it, absolutely, we do it to try and fit in but, from our earliest days on earth, it never goes away.

Those of us that are born this way have no choice but to live amongst you in a society of intolerance, we live in your society of intolerance for simply one reason, unless you are born this way you would never be able to understand what it is like to be this way. God cannot answer that question for you.

Today I thank God that this fine Dr. is allowing these children that are dealing with this condition a chance at a better life, will there be issues, you betchya, there always are but I will guarantee you that 99% of the children that are seeking this treatment know in their heart that it is the right thing for them and they will become better adults in the long run.

Please stop being afraid of us, of being afraid of this condition, we are not here to harm you, we are not evil beings, a lot of us come from good homes and love God just as much as you do.

Thank You Dr. Spack for providing a service that is long overdue and greatly needed in this country. There will be many more happy children.

There is no such thing as transgender surgery, just surgical mutilation of confused individuals in need of intensive counseling. To do this to children highlights the danger of accepting, and even embracing, sexual deviancy, i.e. the homosexual agenda.

I have a question for all you “holy rollers” who contend that transgender therapy is barbaric. How many of you actually know a child suffering with gender identify issues? The barbarism comes from closed-minded people like you who want to force these children into a gender role that than cannot fit into. And all without knowing anything about their problems. I doubt that any parent with a transgendered child is jumping at the opportunity to treat their child medically/hormonally without having gone through hell trying to convince the child that their gender matches their sex organs.

I heard two of Dr. Spack’s young patient’s and their parents speak at a symposium and the before and after stories are heart breaking; years of agony by the child as they struggle to “fit in” followed by the joy of acceptance once they were allowed to be themselves.

I applaud Dr. Spack and his work.

I understand how people think this is sick and wrong. On the surface, these situations seem very horrifying and immoral. However, nobody can judge this because nobody except for the child, the parents and the doctors are aware of each situation. Each situation is different and you can not make a blanket statement about it being right or wrong without knowing the details and the personal nature of each individual case.

The important thing to remember is that the transgender children are suffering. They honestly believe they are born in the wrong gender. Perhaps many of them will grow out of it. Perhaps some will be happier living as their chosen gender. It’s very hard to say. But, I think we can all agree that the majority of these parents want what is best for their children. They know their children better than we do. We should leave the judgement up to them – not us.

For those of you who continue to bring God into this, please get a life. This has nothing to do with unGodliness or sin. This is a serious issue for the child in which people are sincerely trying to make the best decision.

Who cares ? ? ? ?

Please stop sending unwanted mail

Re Tony’s comment. God aside, since when do you allow 7 year olds to make life changing decisions? What gives the parent the right to think they know their child soooooooooo well that they “think” he’d be better as a she? Why not wait till the kid is of the age of consent and make that decision themselves? Hell, I didn’t even pierce my daughter’s ears till she was old enough to ask for it, I don’t have the RIGHT to change her body in anyway. I have a RESPONSIBILITY to raise her as a MORAL, RESPONSIBLE child. With or without God, Good moral values play a major part in how your kids turn out whether it’s as a he or she or something in the middle. If at the age of consent they feel that strongly then I would support them without condition. I love my children whether, gay, straight, white, green, transgendered, whatever they are, they are my flesh and blood but that STILL does not give me the right to mutiliate or change them in anyway.

It is not up to a parent or a doctor to decide what sex a child “should” be, the decision is in God’s hands. Maybe instead of introducing new drugs and hormones to these confused children, we should be introducing the Word of God to them. Where is the state? Spanking your children is child abuse according to them WHY isn’t this overeducatied nut being brought up on charges of child abuse and sexual assault, NOW to the parents you should lose all rights to be a parent and be fixed so you may NEVER have a child again, also be put on list so you may NEVER adopt you have abuse the privilege of being a parent. And brought up on charges of child abuse and sexual assault.

Dr. Spack is one small example that’s twisting the ideals of this nation. A doctor who’s estranged moral compass is only interested is what drug can be prescribed to make the symptoms go away now. It seems he’s not interested at all in exploring the other options of treatments such as counseling or behavior therapy. These treatments he’s prescribing are irreversable…no going back!! You really want to take that chance with these kids? The best approach is caution and discernment when it comes to treatment of disorders in kids. They’re bodies and minds are changing so rapidly that what’s happening today probably won’t be the same tomorrow. Introducing these powerful drugs, hormones and surgery to these kids and I express…”KIDS” is irresponsable and reckless. And where are the parents in these situations???? We are responsible for our younger generation until they’re old enough to be responsible for themselves. Appently this Dr. Sparks has forgetten about that.

I think the one who REALLY needs a doctor (psychiatric one at that) is Dr. Norman Spack! This story made me even more convinced that our country is going to hell! Doesn’t anyone have morals anymore?

A child commits a crime and we are told that they are too young to know right from wrong. Why is it suddenly different in this situation? If a child is too young to know right from wrong when committing a crime, how can they be mature enough when it comes to such a drastic thing as a sex change?

It’s simply more of the deconstruction of the American society by the leftists that have been allowed to run rampant in this country.

How stupid are we going to let these ’scientists’ get before we realize that life is not just about sex and no amount of ‘assignment’, ‘permission’, or ‘alteration’ will ever fulfill or even mediate a persons relationship with the world. What a waste of tax dollars and scholarships. Are we just out of real deseases and problems to work on? Let the Psychology department take care of peoples’ relational and behavior issues, and let Real doctors and Real scientists have what they need to rid the world of desease and maybe even figure out how to end hunger and poverty.
This is absolutely the dumbest thing I’ve heard since, well since we called a transgendered man- ‘pregnant’. If it has a womb it is a girl- Idiot’s!

This is just one more example of how this “new age thinking” isn’t thinking at all. And the people defending it don’t realize how crazy they sound. What’s scary is they can justify it in their own minds. Anyone who can justify this action could justify ANYTHING !!

FOX news is screwed up. Why don’t you interview some other doctors that aren’t religious/right wing nutjobs? Transgender problems are psychological and not physical? You’re an idiot for even saying that. Look at the research, do some investigation. Try to open your eyes and look outside of your little church doors and see what’s going on in the world around us.

I think that it’s wonderful that this doctor is offering these services to children, which if you’ll note the rest of the civilized world has been doing for some time. It’s only because of all you right wing fanatics that can’t distinguish between a science book and the bible that we’re so far behind in medical care.

Fox News “fair and balanced” my ass. You slant every single issue you report on. To even include that guy connected to Falwell’s comments in an article concerning REAL doctors should be criminal. Take your religion and leave it where it belongs, in YOUR house or in YOUR church and not in medicine or science.

We all need to be praying for these people. The unGodly, misled doctors, the unGodly, confused parents and especially the INNOCENT children who are about to be mutilated, all for the sake of “medicine”.

Nice to see all the zelots still crowed around there yellow news site.

And there are still those that still question that there is a moral crisis in this nation.

Sounds like the doctor is setting up the perfect practice. Make sure these kids don’t go through puberty, so they can’t “really” discover their sexual preference…. Putting off the sound of; “Oh gee mommy, I guess I’m really a transvestite, lucky I still have something to show my excitement with”. Too bad these young helpless test cases will only be able to say: “Why Mommy”?

How can a child that young (7Yrs old) know what he or she wants to be. I wouldn’t think that the mental capacity to make such a radical choice……maybe it is that the child feels that they were given the wrong body by God, or it could be the parents didn’t get the child of their wish and are trying to change that at the cost of traumatizing the child for life.

I agree with Hap…..

you have got to be fu&*(( kidding

So let me get this straight… you are not supposed to spank your child to discipline them but you can now take them for a sex change or hormone therapy at 7?? This is sick, wrong and yes evil! As a nation we are turning into ancient Rome! However, I am sure the Liberals are fine with that just remember thou you will go down with the ship too!

In this issue I keep hearing the mantra, repeated over and over, ‘children can’t choose to be the opposite gender!’ Why not? At least 97% of them surely, definitely, unequivocally chose to be the gender that matches their bodies’ sex! And at such young ages, too! Before they start kindergarten, boys settle into building (and destroying) forts and battlefields in the sandbox, while girls build homes and communities. Who taught them? Did you parents carefully instruct your children in their correct gender roles, with gold stars for choosing the right clothing/toys/play activities — training them like some circus animal until they ‘got it right’?

Or did they just sort of fall into it without a whole lot of guidance from you? Why can’t they chose to be what they are inside? Because you won’t let them? And are you doing this for their benefit, or for yours?

By the age of five a majority of children already know all of George Carlin’s Seven Words you can’t say on TV. Many of them have had the sex act explained to them, and they understand how other people ‘do it’ (my cousin told me a joke about a kid by the name of Johnny Faster at that age.) Steven Pinker quotes the studies that back up this assertion in his latest book, The Stuff Of Thought, and in an earlier book (The Blank Slate), lays out with footnotes to the studies, how identical twins’ personalities are only about 50% identical, leaving room for television actress Candis Cayne, an identical twin, can be transgendered while her identical brother is not.

God, indeed, works in mysterious ways;

Hazumu Osaragi

Even in the liberal Boston area, this surprises me. What kind of parents would allow thier children to take these kinds of drugs and plan for a sex change operation at such an early age. The doctor does not surprise me, medical science has gone way to far anyway. But the parents amaze me.

I see that many are writing about God, and how God made man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. Didn’t God also make the man who found these drugs to make these children feel like themselves. God does everything for a reason, the bad and the good in people were all created by him. This is a genetic problem, just because no one has physical proof, doesn’t mean its not there. A child knows at an early age who they were meant to be, who are we to say they cannot not achieve it. There are medicines that were made to help children, these are unusual cases but the medicines were made by a man made from God. Trangender is a mental thing as is straight is mental thing as well. In order for a child to be whole their mind must match their body.

All I can say is that I HOPE JESUS COMES BACK SOON!!!! I can’t stand the thought of my children growing up in a society that thinks that this is okay and normal. We are certainly in the end times!

I am appalled but this. They are children – as stated in the article every child experiments with “gender” specific toys. What is our world coming to? I am 41 years old and I hope just like fashion trends “come back” that our society will come back to the basics of life. I miss the respect that we had for one another. My son is 15 months old and he is being taught how to respect, tolerate, accept everyone. Let them just be kids…the parents of these little people are out of their minds!

Have you seriously got to be kidding me… This article has to be a joke… what on earth makes anyone believe that a 7 year old has the mental capacity to make a decision of whether or not they want to be a girl or a boy. What kills me is when people say, “what has happened to our youth, they seem to be inconsiderate, innate, and disrespectful.” Well the reason is becuase the liberal idiots are encouraging it…. People want a democrat for a president??? At least Bush will not allow this kind of atrocity within his administration.

Childhood is a time when children are learning through cognitive growth and do not have the mental abilities or thought processes to accurately understand the world around them. So doctors who want to make some statement in their practice decide to come up with pompus and ignorant conditions that do not exist. Congress please please please put a stop to this encouragement of child abuse!!

Don’t even think about requiring parents to be notified in the case of a 7 year old desiring a sex change. It’s their own choice.

Thank god the doctor has the compassion and intellect that the public doesn’t. I can only imagine what would happen if doctors started to follow public opinion when it comes to treating people.

I’m totally disgusted by the number of people here who think they know what they’re talking about.

Compassionate chrisitians. What an oxymoron.

Could only happen in the screwed up liberal state of Massachusetts!!

It is unreasonable to expect a youth to make decisions like this that will affect the remainder of their lives. Even as a young man I approached a doctor asking for a vasectomy and he refused saying I would later regret the decision. He was right, I was wrong. My son changes his career goal and whole thought systems regularly. For a doctor to surgically or chemically manipulate a child’s gender characteristics is unethical and perverse.

The doctor’s have it right. If you are not a homophob, and you have friends who are transgender and/or gay, you would know that this doesn’t have anything to do with religion, faith, etc. This is a medical condition, and it should not be ignored. I’m sure there will be backlash on this issue, but I can honestly say that if this would have affected my child, I would have welcomed this opportunity and these doctors. This is not voodoo folks.

Maybe it’s because you’ve never had contact with someone that’s transgender. If you had then you wouldn’t be so “amazed.”

Why is it that we can’t admit to ourselves that,

“I have no experience with this issue, therefore it would be difficult for me to make ANY TYPE or RATIONAL JUDGEMENT because I would be making that judgement based on my own IGNORANCE instead of education or experience.”

My daughter thinks she is a frog….anyone know a good species change procedure??

We are becoming a nation like Sodom and Gomorrah and our government is letting all these things go by like if it was the best thing to do. this doctors have nothing else better to do than to push their own agenda on to the publis if they can get away with it.

Obviously they do not think about God at all; when you start taking matters into your own hands and deciding what is good for some one elses kids, that doctore needs to get a life and start doing good for the community instead of thinking of how to ruin our kids…..lets give the kids a chance to be kids and grow from there.

As an adult, you can do what ever you want, it does not make it right in the eytes of God, but you have the freedom to do it if you want that choice.

As far as I’m concern, God stuill in controlo of all that.

This is the problem with our country. It is becoming too liberal, that belongs to the democrats. I think this kind of procedure should be outlawed. What is going on with America?

That is so wrong, disturbing, and disgusting. What is America becoming?

My comments did not come out. I like to say that this procedure is a very dangerous precedence. This procedure must be outlawed. What is going on with America?

What evil we have come to in this country! It would be so wrong to alter the sex of a child. What is this doctor thinking or is he just trying to be politically correct. It is time for all of us to search the scriptures, so we can learn what is right and what is wrong.

Oh my god! What is this world coming to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WELL…..What do you expect from a moral curopt nation of ours.

There are no morals left….anything is ok……..take a few minutes to read in the Bible about the end times….its scary how it fits us and the rest of the world.

Don’t be surprised of a great earthquake in Calif, in the near future.its coming.

Dr. Norman Spack is mentally ill and so are the people who agree with his practices. This is not being done for the sake of medicine or for the sake of “correcting” a birth defect. This is about a strong homosexual agenda led by a very few who have chosen that life style. If this allowed any longer our country will surely collapse under her depravity sooner than later!

Why do people vote Republican, just read the story and you will see.

Absolutely sick. Anyone that would consider this should be locked up.

This saddens me. Chances are these confused kids have an absentee father or father figure. If people who decide to breed stepped it up and actually began to PARENT, we wouldn’t have half of the identity issues that plague our children and young adults that we have today. I can say that I’ve known people who were confused as children about MANY different ideas about who they were or who they were to become, but now know who they are as a man or woman, particularly those who base thier identity in Christ. Not religious dogma, just a real relationship that causes clarity of mind…seriously. Anyway, it’s just wrong to allow parents to to this to thier children, but at the end of the day, I don’t want the government telling me what decisions to make with MY child; so I guess it is what it is. This is why I say that the whole thing saddens me.

This is idiotic. What are these doctors thinking? This is like giving a fat kid candy and then telling him he needs to shed a few pounds. This is only an enableing behavior so doctors can make more money. Children do nto have the capacity to make life dicsions such as this, that is why you must be 18 to vote in this country.. think about it people. You can go to war and fight for your country and vote at 18 but you cant have a beer because younge adults are not yet mature enough to handle the choices. Now we will let a child decide to mutalate him or herself because they feel different. The parents allowing this should have the child removed from there care because they obviously are unable to make choices on what is in the best interest of the child. We as a nation have become so damn super sensative to the feelings of everybody else in the world and are so damn worried about offending some body that we are letting logic be pushed aside for the sake of appeasing a select group. Put the wacko doctor in jail for crimes against humanity, strip him of his licsence and execute the idiotic parents who would allow this to happen to their on flesh and blood. Place the children in theropy and and try to undo the damage these idots have done to the children.

When I read that procedures are done on children who are 7 years old…I was sickened and must admit how dangerous such actions are….

Children and teens are subjected to such Lurid knowledge these days that it would be extremely hard to really expect a Child or Teen to know exactly what they want to be. Some kids want Attention, some just want an adventure and some want to Aggravate their parents.

This option is viable for childen born with dual sex organs..or none…but to allow this for children especially if they are from Massachusetts…Children who are Taught in Formal Classes HOW GREAT IT IS TO BE GAY! these days kids come home thinking because they have a Best Friend of the same sex..well, they must be gay…SURELY SHOWS THE DANGER OF THIS MEDICAL PROCEDURE especially AT SO YOUNG AN AGE!

I saw this first hand with a neighbor’s son ..who had a friend he had known since 3 years old..now in 5 th grade and hearing the new SEX Education comments from his pals..HE THINKS HE IS IN LOVE WITH HIS MALE CHIDLHOOD FRIEND Because He really likes doing things with him and is not ..at this time..looking for a girlfriend!. It is so sad to hear the parents discuss this indoctrination of their son…

I GUESS BOYS AND GIRLS CANNOT HAVE A LCLOSE FRIEND OF THEIR OWN SEX THESE DAYS WITHOUT BEING CALLED GAY! these two little boys grew up loving and playing the same sports, games, and spent time with their parents fishing and boating and attending sports events..now they are told in School that they MUST BE GAY to be so “friendly”…I guess that makes the parents Gay too!

The two boys are embarassed, but lucky for them their parents are pulling them out of “public” school…and sending them to the SAME private school next fall…THE PARENTS BELIEVE THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN HAVING A BEST FRIEND SINCE YOUTH..AND THEY DO NOT THINK THEIR CHILDREN ARE GAY ..ONE REASON IS BECAUSE THEY ARE CHILDEN OF BEST FRIENDS THEMSELVES!

The only answer I can see is the recruitment of New Gay “friends” for the “unable to reproduce more” Gay Crowd. The only way to increase ones ranks when you do not reprouduce is to RECRUIT by indoctrination!

ALSO………would someone name me a country we could imigrate too that is not totally crazy, and has a few normal basic rights? I tried to think of one but could not. This story has got to be a fake.even the Name sounds phony.

Hope it is……..This is sick …sick…sick…………..AND DISGUSTING.

mY Gosh what have we become.

I cannot even finish reading this artice – it is beyond barbaric and unconscionable for the medical professionals involved. This is shameful and disgusting to think that they will allow a 7 year-old to make a life-altering, adult decision when they cannot even fathom the outcome! How tragic.

I agree with most of the people on this chat board. How could we let a child at such an early age make such a big decision?

It seems really twisted to mess with Mother Nature this way- I really don’t think genes lie. If you are born with an XY you are a boy and if you are born with an XX then you are a female. If a person “feels” like they should be a different gender then this is a psychological disorder not a physical disorder.

In reading some of these remarks it seems like people really feel for some of the children suffering from transgenderism (I am not sure if this is a word). I didn’t know this was a serious problem. I think it would be interesting to know what type of home life these children were exposed to. Maybe transgenderism is a symptom of something deeper that maybe wrong with the child. If you let the child switch his/her gender and don’t get to the root of the issue, it may exacerbate the situation. Then the parents would be paying for the sex change and years of counseling.

Norman Spack is digusting and deplorable. Victimizing young children is a crime. I suppose he would argue that his “procedure” be available without parental consent. HIS sex ought to be changed from MALE to EUNUCH.

This isn’t practicing medicine. This is just another way to come up with a method to make money. I can’t believe this guy would exploit confused children in such a manner.

Disgusting! I don’t see how this can be justified in America…

Alcohalizm has been proven to be genetic thus we should give alcohal to chidren exibiting this gene. (or so those who believe this nonsense would propose)

Call Childrens Hospital in Boston now and have this man disbarred…It should be the hypopcritical oath!

Another example of gullable and ignorant people believing in a medical cure for behavior problems. The parents of these children are disgusting.

I remember seeing a documentary once about people who believed they were supposed to be amputees. They even pretended they were paralized or injured, dreaming of when they could cut off their leg or arm, or both legs and both arms. This is not a physical problem, folks. They weren’t born WRONG because they had both legs and arms. These people are just as convinced something is wrong with their body as the “transgendered” folk. These people go so far as to try and cut off their own arms and legs, or get doctors to do it for them. Some of them have succeeded, and are happy for some time. But later find they are still not satisfied.

I remember one man had both his legs amputated and then was treated with medication for depression. Now he longs for the days when he could run. Regretting not getting help for his mind instead of trying to get his legs cut off.

This is totaly rediculous. If some yahoo wants to mutilate themselves and say they are a different sex than what DNA, DNA does not lie, says they are then let them wait til they are legal age 21. That is the age when most states say drinking is permissable so a reasonable age for deciding when to mutilate oneself.

Soo we will have pediphelia considered ok in the political realm like the Netherlands does. They support a party dedicated ot pediphelia. The ACLU alos supports pediphelia.

Let me get this straight. Spanking a child is abusive, degrading, and harmful to a child, but allowing a kid to get a sex change op isn’t? That’s wack! How does a kid even know what he wants to be at that age. When i was a kid, my brother thought it would be cool to go to prison because he wouldn’t have to work and could watch TV all day. If every kid, when they grew up, became what they thought they’d be, the world would be populated by policemen, firemen, astronauts, etc. This “doctor” should have his license revoked. Isn’t the first rule of medicine to “do no harm”?

Every day the courts, doctors, law makers and other so-called experts decree that teens aren’t mentally or physically developed enough to make decisions as to concensual sex, as to not being mature enought to see the perils of alcohol and drugs and countless other reasons but all of sudden a seven year old child, both mentally and physically undeveloped, can now decide as to his/her gender makeup. Most doctors and other professionals readily acknowledge that too little is known of this gender type situation. Dr Spack an other idiots like him should be prosecuted and their right to practice medicine withdrawn. This is absolutely disgusting.

Where the heck are the parents of these 7 years olds!

For some reason “Tony” has been blinded by his fear that God is real and that he’s been wrong all along to not believe in him. Don’t worry “Tony”, us “religious nuts” will pray that you will swallow your pride (the pride keeping you from admitting that you’re wrong and God is right) and ask for forgiveness. And we’ll pray it happens sooner than later, because as you said, “if you read the whole Bible”, you’ll see the writing is on the wall in ALL CAPS.

Let’s all pray for any kids who would become victims of this, who already have, and for those causing it to repent. Then, let us all move as one to stop this illusion and outlaw it immediately.

Science has NOT proved ‘transgenderism’ is innate. To PROVE scientific data the results must be repeatable with subsequent experiments/tests. This is the same reason homosexuality cannot be proven as inborn.
Irreversible alterations on a child’s body like this are unconscionable! What in the world are they thinking!

Why not in the name of “not telling them what they should and shouldn’t do” let them drive, do crack, or something else that is not illegal? Parents are NOT their kids’ friends- they are parents, and are supposed to protect them from doing stupid things like this. What if, in the childs vast maturity, they make this decision and regret it later? We need to remember what it is like being a kid and how tough things can be- really though- a sex change? Adults can do whatever they like, but leave the friggen kids out of it. This doc is an excellent salesperson without a conscience. I am not an overly religious person, but I sure wouldn’t allow the government (made up of egotistically maniac career politicians) determine what is right and wrong for kids. There is morality and legality- VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.

WOW! Doctors will do anything for a buck — now they invented a new disease to treat. Shame on the doctors including kids on your perverted quest for money!

Kudos, Frank… precisely, and well said. I got on here to make the same comment. If it is truly genetic, one of these ‘identical’ twins would have this gene and the other wouldn’t (which means they aren’t identical twins. Also, they want us to swallow that there is a gene, but in their ONE example, the ‘experts’–who are merely theorists– cannot provide evidence of this gene at all. Additionally, ONE example of identical twins? If it’s genetic wouldn’t this ‘gene’ be present in every single one of the cases? They tried this with homosexuality, didn’t fly then either. There is no gay gene. There is no transgender gene. There is a birth defect where individuals are born with BOTH sets of reproductive organs. THAT is a birth defect. That is the ONLY instance where children (or even adults) should undergo surgery to establish a specific gender.

State and Federal should be inacted ASAP to prevent demented doctors and lawyers from carring out these idiodic and barbaric procedures. Maybe he might need to get his gonads clipped. I know that sooner or later the ACLU will be involved, so all these should be stopped as soon as possible. !!!!!!

Ishmael

I am totaly against this by the way but for the sake of argument let me say this. I read some peoples views on here about pro choice for children the only thing that comes to mind is this. If a child has come to the conclusion that he doesn’t like living anymore and an adult allows this kid to play with a gun or even just makes a gun available to the child that in turn results in the child killing himself. Why is the parent taken to jail and charged with child endangerment or neglect or any other host of trumped up charges? This is the same thing in my opinion. The child was obviously old enough to make the choice to live or die right. That is the same irational argument people are using on this comment board. It is deplorable and idiotic. Before any of you transgender bible thumpers start jumping on me yes I speak from expieriance on this matter. I know a person who had this done as an adult and i don’t agree with it but that was his choice not mine. but he was an adult when he made that choice, not a seven year old child that decide if they would like cake or ice cream and then have a tantrum because they cant have each.

Well as someone Who knew she was different at the age or 3 and was forced to be the gender
that I was born into, and who later as a teen tried to kill myself because my body was going thru changes that I did not want. Yeah I could have been a negative statistic. At least there are parents out there that see the pain and suffering that their children are going thru, and are willing to do for the sake of the child, instead of beating them, making fun of them. Telling them to stop being a sissy.

Some of the comments I have seen on this post make me sick. It is easy to armchair quarter back a subject untill it happens to you or someone close to you. So before you open your mouth and say something negative Try putting yourself in the same position.

I wish the Dr and the parents success in keeping their children alive and happy.

Deanna Bryant
Portland Or

Can we say child abuse? There is no way a child so young can make a decision such as this. These Parents and Doctors should not let these children even think of having such an operation. This is simply child abuse.

This is just sad and disgusting. It is one thing for adults to choose what to do with their lives, but whatever parent would submit their child to this is….well there is no words it is just sickening.

The Childrens Hospital of Boston has a Child Protection Program Office…please call them and get the real facts…this is a viable, reasonable program that they say is not hurting children…the woman on the phone said that it is a very progressive and wonderful program…get the facts, not emotion!

A child is in no position to make such an incredibly radical decision on THEIR
life at least until they are adults. This is clearly a mental issue and NOT a
physical issue. This doctor is a picture of evil and should be arrested.
Where is our legislature/police at on this? Asleep?

This doctor needs to have his license pulled.

My kid is three and sometimes he acts like a dog and/or a monster truck. Does anyone think maybe my son was born in a little boy’s body, but is really a dog and/or a monster truck. Sometimes he says to “Daddy, i’m not a boy, i’m a doggy” I can’t help but wonder if this is his true self trying to get out. I wonder if this doctor could perform an operation on my son to turn him into a dog and/or a monster truck. Since this is how my son FEELS sometimes, I don’t see where there would be any sort of moral issue. Obviously, children are fully capable of making rational, mature decisions. And as we all know, it’s always best to base a decision, especially a decision regarding whether you’re a man or woman, on feelings.

I am so infuriated~ Why is this so called Doctor still in practice? These are Children for heavens sake. This person is trying to be GOD? This is sick and insane. How can this be tolerated in our society? In ANY Society for that matter. What is happening to our Country? (

I’m a 26-year old woman, and when I was little, I walked, talked, and dressed like a boy. I think back in the day it was called being a “tomboy.” I guess nowadays they consider that a genetic disorder. How sad.

I have a nephew who is going through this same thing, he is 13 and wants a sex change, he was born very pre mature and the doctors told my mother in law about the transgender gene, that he may have problems in the long run of what sex he is, which he does, he is very very very feminine. He is more feminine then most girls i know, he is too the extreme, i feel sorry for him because he gets picked on alot at school, i have tried to tell him to tone it down a little bit, but he likes to be flamboyant, so he kinda brings it on himself. I feel that everyone has a choice of who and what they want to be, but anyone under the age of 18 should not be allowed for a sex change or to be prescribed meds to alter their hormones. When you are that young you don’t know what you want to be or do for that matter

I believe homosexuality (transgender) is mainly psycological, but in some cases I believe it can be and imbalance of hormones.

Nonetheless, if God formed you as a female, you should stay a female and visa versa. This goes for adults as well as children.

God gave each of us free will to do with our lives as we will, but I really believe God must be sick to his stomach at so much that is going on in our society. (This doesn’t only apply to gays and lesbians, but ALL of society.)

Thank goodness someone has finally recognized that these children need help and no amount of “behavior modification” is going to change what is inate. These children struggle enough with society’s ideas of what is “normal,” but to them, being born into the body of the wrong gender is the only “normal” they know!

Wow. I love the logical “you don’t give an anorexic lipo” and you shouldn’t give mentally disturbed kids hormones or surgery. That says it all.

If a man comes to a doctor and says he should only have 1 arm, and requests an amputation, surely the doctor will seek a psyche-review. Same instance here, in my opinion.

You have got to be kidding me! This is some type of Liberal sick joke. Kids at that age are often confused. How many Tomboys have you seen at that age? This needs to be made illegal. It’s one thing for an adult to decide whether to have a sex change or not but something completely different for a kid seven years old to make that decision. This seems to be something concocted by the homosexual/Transgendered community attempting to make their lifestyle choices more mainstream. the Silent Majority needs to stand up and be noticed before they get ahold of more of our kids!

I am starting a clinic for kids who think they’re dogs or monster trucks. I will implant tires, gears and a motor (or dog parts) after some hormonal therapies…LMAO. I wanted toi be a transformer when I was a kid, can I get an operation?

This is the most disgusting article I have read this year. I totally agree with the writer that said how confusing it is to be a child. I teach and I see the horrible things our children have to contend with. I cannot believe that docotrs would do something so crazy and immoral. It is a definite sign of the end times. How could parents do something like this to their babies. My friend was a true tombot growing up. Now she is the most beatiful woman, wonderful wife, and mother of four beautiful children. This is an attack on the family and the Lord Jesus is truly soon to come. Doctors: You will give account to God for your actions!!!!!

Yank this and the other idiots considering this practice licenses.

When I was 8 I went through a period where I thought I was dog…are we going to come up with a treatment for that too?? Wow.

This is just amazing to me. When the kid grows up and is able to make decisions for themselves then fine; let them do as they please at that point. There is no way that a 7 year old knows what they really want from life. I remember my parents grounded me when I was bad, praised me when I was good, and told me to get out of the house and go do something instead of me wining and sitting on the couch. Why are parents so weak these days? Instead of giving a kid everything they ask for, how about growing a backbone and start being a parent?

Forty years ago my son was born with a severe congenital heart problem (tetralogy of Fallot ). Boston Children’s Hospital did amazing things for our son . In appreciation both my husband and I worked for many years as volunteers at the hospital. We also made a substantial ( at that time) monetary donation to the hospital for the EKG room. We never would have envisioned this experimentation on young children for a sex change. This change is not indicated because of some immediate life threatening problem. Children of this age do not have sufficient knowledge and experience to give consent to such things. Needless to say my opinion of this Doctor and the hospital policies have changed tremendously.
Betty

Those who deny transsexuals the right to become who they are should also offer to shoot them on the way out the door. They are condemning humans to likely suicide or death by neo-fascist school and street thugs. That attitude is the same thing as eugenics. Anyone who does not fit the blonde, blue-eyed, horny hetero baby machine mold, should be eliminated from society, they think. Ironic that the same people who complain that courts should not adjudicate about reading Bibles in schools are immediately ready to impose sex functions on people by law – be they reproductive behavior or child bearing.

Wow, some of these comments are just plain disgusting. I guess people really are frightened of what they don’t understand. I certainly don’t agree with gender reassignment at an age below 18 years of age, but I think therapy and/or hormone treatment would be merited in certain situations. If any of you had a loved one or friend that has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria you would realize the long term sacrifices, pain, and social stigma associated with “transitioning”. These folks are ostracized by all segments of society and only recently has there been some legislation enacted that prevents them from being discriminated against. You people that just blindly spew your hate should be ashamed of yourselves.

I would never tell a child they aren’t feeling what they are feeling, that’s wrong. But, I would never let that child’s feelings at 11 or 12 years old determine their entire future as human beings. Let them grow up, in therapy, and then let them make this decision as an adult.

This type of procedure, on a child, is totally unacceptable, in my opinion.

Children are not fully grown. Their growth plates are not closed and their cognitive reasoning abilities are not fully developed. How can they possibly understand the ramifications of this kind of surgery?

Furthermore, which so-called medical and mental heath professionals are making these decisions? We learned, after the fact, that Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the father of the homosexual movement, used and supported pedophiles who conducted sexual experiments, on children as young as 2 months old, to supply him with data for his publications and he used incarcerated criminals to come up with his 10% Myth regarding the population of homosexuals, in this country. The actual figure appears to be between 2-3%.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA), which at one time appeared to support the notion that homosexual behavior is genetic/innate, has now revised that information. In spite of more than 40 years of studies, there is no proof, whatsoever, that homosexual behavior is genetic/innate. The following comment is taken from the APA’s recent brochure, which can be found, on the APA website. As follows:

This statement has recently replaced the APA’s original statement, as follows:

“There is no consensus among scientists about the exact reasons that an individual develops a heterosexual, bisexual, gay or lesbian orientation. Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors…”

Surgically and/or medically altering a child’s gender is tantamount to heinous child abuse and butchery.

It is important to understand that one of the major arguments for removing homosexual behavior from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a change that many now accept, as simply indisputable, was based on the genetic/innate claim, in spite of the fact that it now appears the decision was based wholly on fiction.
You can find more on this subject by using Google to search “The Trojan Couch” .pdf file.

What is wrong with you people who think that a 7 year old has the mental capacity to decide the he/she was supposed to be born the opposite? Are you kidding? Shame on any so called parent who thinks that it’s ok to to endulge in what a child thinks is ok!!!! Child!!!! Parent!!!! Parents need to be parents and stop trying to be their kid’s buddy!!!

children at this age have no idea what there sexual preferance is all about. A child this young should not be made to choose if he or she want to be a boy or a girl. Let them grow and when they finally become adults they can choose for themselves. Not by a quack doctor.

How do the parent’s decide this for their kids? And how would a very young kid, who barely understands the true nature of “death”, understand the implications of a sex change? How old are these kids? There are many levels to this, but it is just plain abusive.

Yeah we are the bad ones because we won’t accept everything that is pushed on us?!!? Its called making informed decisions and not just accepting everything as what someone tells you to believe. We are the ones being chided here though for not understanding?!?! PUH LEASE. We understand completely. We understand that at 7/8 years old kids have NO idea who they are. They have no idea who they will be. At 15/16 its the same story. Looking at science…guess what they can’t prove that this is a gene thing…there IS no proof. Right now its just a theory that is just as wrong as it is right. And WE are being deemed as the ignorant ones? You are the ones putting your money on something that is completely fictional for all we can see right now.

Signed,
Everyone on these boards but the 4 people that want to chastise the logical ones.

I think this is wonderful! I wish this mindset and service had been available when I was a child. I would have had a much happier life. I knew I was really a boy at a very young age. Probably around 4 or younger.

For the other comments… Don’t make judgements or comments on something you know nothing about! This is a necessity for transgendered children and teenagers.

I was such a tomboy, and everyone thought i was a lesbian until I got married and had kids………hmmmmmm
Perhaps it’s the ashamed pathetic parents who want to change thier child so they don’t appear to be the parents of a “tomboy” or a “girly boy” , I usually agree with medicine but what the hell are we doing here people……..

I could understand the move if he was trying to save hermaphrodites from future pain that would come once puberty kicked in and they had 2 sets of hormones confusing them, but transvestites are completely different. I was convinced that I was a boy and not a girl until puberty finally kicked in completely and I could no longer deny that I was a girl. Looking back, I am glad that I am female, and I would have felt lost for the rest of my life if someone had granted my wish when I was little and completely changed me to a boy.

Based on these comments we are certainly still a closed minded puritanical society. While I dont beleive in some of the doctors methods it is wonderful to know that options are available for children with severe gender issues.

Is this guy is a complete nut – these are kids – let them be kids – in the USA you can sue a baseball bat manufacturer for a kid who is hit with a ball and dies but this crazy idiot is allowed to damage kids for life!!!

Why am I not surprised. We have forsaken our Maker and we will incur His wrath in the days to come. Lord, please forgive us.

Don’t tell me what I know nothing about, I know this, I have a child, I am proud of her no matter what, but I will not subject her to treatments with hormones, and surgery to feed into some urgency to change, i will support her when her body is able to support her….

I am amazed by our society today. We accept any and everything as normal. I can tell you that, as a child growing up (I am female), that I did everything boys did. I rode dirt bikes and jumped ramps. Played in the dirt with hot wheel cars and climbed trees. I picked up snakes and threw rocks. I was so tomboyish, that I don’t think I wore a shirt while playing outside until around the age of ten. Thankfully we were raised in the country with view neighbors. I followed my older brother and used to think “I wish I were a boy”. And yes, I had sisters too, so it wasn’t as though I was influenced only by a male sibling. My sisters were girlie girls. Probably if you had asked me at that age, I would have told you I was suppose to be a boy because I wanted to do, and could do, anything the rough and tumble boy did.
But trust me…..as I aged and hormones began to set in….things changed. As a teen….I was not Ms. Feminine, but I knew I was a girl, and I liked being one. I liked boys (though I could probably, at that time, beat most of them to a pulp).
There is no way you can take a child at that age and determine that they are “transgender”…..which I think is hogwash to start with. God don’t make mistakes…..we humans do….and then blame it on God.

To suggest this is nothing more than perversion. The authorities need to keep an eye on this doctor in case he decides to act on this pervesion. Another perspective: If a child is given a choice at such a young age, you might as well release all your pedophiles from prison and remove those on the “Sex offenders” list. Why, you’re saying a 7 year old is old enough to know and I DISSAGREE.

To “CallChidlrensHospital”

“The Childrens Hospital of Boston has a Child Protection Program Office…please call them and get the real facts…this is a viable, reasonable program that they say is not hurting children…the woman on the phone said that it is a very progressive and wonderful program…get the facts, not emotion!”

Really a $20,000 a year security guard told you all of this..
Hitler had warm showers installed for all the jewish prisoners in Alschwitz also to make them more comfortable. At least thats what an SS soilder said once. Unfortunately they turned out to be gas chambers and insinerators that resulted in the loss of millions of lives. A turd by any other name is still a turd. Dont be so naive, just because the “highly trained phone answerer” says it is a viable program doesn’t really lend to the credability of the program. I would be more impressed if the AMA said it was a viable treatment for an identifable and repeatable problem that was actually documented and backed up by years of research. It doesn’t make it so just because somebody would like for it to be so.

This is just a sign of the end times. We are getting closer to the ‘days of Noah’ and the condition of Sodom and Gomorrah.

It’s hard to believe that this guy actually calls himself a doctor. But I guess if you teach the religous belief of evolution in schools and take out any reference to the God who designed and created us, then you can make up anything that you want – I’m still confused how people can believe in something so impossible as evolution, which is based 100% on random chance, no designer, no creator – but you look at this email application that I am writing on and the internet that it is transmitted over that the computer that I’m using – did they evolve over billions and billions of years (as our friend Carl Sagan would say) and were found growing out of a rock in the desert or the code out of an elephants tail – or were they all designed and created for a purpose, through intelligent design?

So if our schools and Hollywood preach their wacky religion, then of course we will all act like animals as that’s what we’re told and guys like this feels there are no consequences to doing things like this to children who are far too young to make a true choice.

Jesus said “… let the children come to me…”. He has great love for people, especially children. Children who are being told that just because they feel a certain way now, are being incouraged to change what God has created. This would appear to be a very foolish decision and will tragically hurt these little ones for a life time.

Tomboys are different than transgender children. Because they never say they ARE boys. That is a huge difference. No parent would make their child this way. Gender Identity is formed by a hormone wash in utero and is unchangeable. You can be barbaric and try to push a square peg in a round whole, or you can treat your child with respect and follow their lead.

Being transgendered is who you are; it is who you were born to be. This is not a mental or psychiatric condition. Various medical research publications have unequivocally supported that transgenderism is determined as a child develops in utero. A person is “hardwired”, so to speak, to be transgendered.

There is no cure; there is no fix. Whether MTF or FTM, a transgender person will not be happy with their life until they can express the person they actually are. Dr. Spaeck understands what transgender children face if they are allowed to develop into their birth-assigned gender, which is opposite from the gender their brain tells them they are. Suicide rates approach the 50% mark for transchildren children.

As the mother of a transgendered son (FTM), I would much rather have my child on hormones and have sexual reassignment surgery when the time comes than to have a dead child, who never reaches adulthood.

This doctor needs to have a psycho evaluation. Don’t touch the children..The parent’s need a psycho evaluation…No child knows who he/she is..only what.. the parents want “it” (the child) to be..this makes me sick..this is child abuse..of the worst kind..the good people of the USA should sue these child mongering folks..or .they will have a civil war on their hands..we need to protect the children…from fake science..This is NAzism of the worst kind…this is abomination..this is playing with fire…a bonfire..His liscense should be revoked..and him put in prison…

Absolutely one of the most disgusting things I have ever heard of. God is definately gracious for not judging the United States as He did Rome and giving it what it deserves.

Dr. Mengele.

America has to do something soon. Here we are turning our children into sexual exploited victims at the prime old age of seven. Maybe we should kick them out and force them to survive on their own at that age (I.E. Sparta).

Wow, if they don’t arrest this Doctor the first time he touches a kid and charge him with endangering the helth of a child, the authorities are asleep at the wheel. Just for suggesting this as a serious proceedure, there should be a physicians license revoked.

As a parent and a medical proffessional I am frightened by this policy. Hormonal treatments without first doing intensive psychotherapy? A 7 y/o making a life altering choice? Where are the “child welfare service professionals” in this City? May God have mercy on these poor confused children. Obviously this Doctor is not concerned with mercy.

For God’s sake! Read the first hand account of such an atrocity. “As Nature Made Him” by John Colapinto. These egotistical quacks are nothing more than a perverted product of our sickening educational and cultural system. I am shocked that this can still be going on. This is a malpractice equal to the sickness of the third reich medical maniachs.

There is sooo much ignorance and hate being thrown around out here it is frightening. All of you wanting to make this into a moral, religious, end times discussion are so clueless as to what you are talking about you are nothing but uninformed, hateful, bigoted and self righteous. I know, because I use to be the same. I used to buy into all the dogma, scare tactics, and ignorance of the religious right. Then God revealed to me that I was not being Christian by hating gays and transgendered people for the way they were created, I was nothing but an ignorant jerk. Almost all of you have someone in your life who was created gay and some may have someone who is transgendered. You may not realize it because these people are forced to live in secret because they know how many intollerant people are around them. It is not a choice and shame on you for propelling this ignorant belief. These kids are burdened with a physical difference that you find disgusting and you make fun of. Would Christ be proud of you for ridiculing them? Try informing yourselves of facts and not myths, superstitions, and intollerance. The Doctor is not the villain here. It is you posters who speak of something you know nothing about. Shame on you. Your self righteousness and assurance that your beliefs which are grounded in ignorance are correct are setting yourselves up for a mighty fall. Remember throughout history “Christians” were right on board almost every societal ill including slavery, segregation, racism, witch trials, torture of non believers, indian genocide, crusades, banning of interacial marriage, and the list goes on and on. Now, all my fellow Christians pick and choose excerpts from a man made Bible that justify their own bigotry and they feel comfortable in hating that in which they do not understand. It is easier to hate than to learn the truth. I don’t recall Jesus saying to hate gays, hate transsexuals, but I remember many areas of the Gospels where he said not to judge. Hypocrites . . . I think many of you need to remove the plank from your eyes!

So much anger. So much hostility. Of course there is opportunism on such an emotionally charged issue. Why do we react so strongly to the idea of a man or a woman pretending to be the opposite sex? Do we fear being tricked? I can only guess. Yet the Christians want to turn it into a moral issue marking it a sign of the end times. (I admit it could well be.) While atheists want to lift up the hypocracy of situation as the Christian’s fail to have compassion. (I admit that this seems plain as well.) But a clear mind and an open heart should lead you to a very real truth.

For starters…
There are many birth defects that I do not believe God made. There are many of us who are born one way and quickly move to change it. Our noses are too big, our busts too small, we prefer to be a different hair color. But these are insignificant compared to sex changes. What about a cleft palet or the Simese Twins? Is it God’s intention that two people joined at birth should live their lives out that way? No.
You see, God created the world and while he can and does act in it, for the most part he lets the world operate based on the physics he created. Therefore he did not send an earthquake to destroy the children in China, nor does he give people birth defects and expect them to live thier lives with them.

Next. We can question the validity of a child who claims to be their opposite sex. But how do you know it is not real. Is that because you yourself did not have the problem? Is it easier to blame the parents, or the person themselves? Do you really think it is simple Tom boy (Tina girl?)behavior being manipulated or misunderstood by science? I assure you a lot of research has been done and the competant medical community can tell the difference. I doubt if any of the messages sent today were by anyone who actually has read the research. And if they did, I can tell from their attitudes that they would deny on emotional grounds alone.

Finally, after someone has gone through puberty they have all the secondary sexual characteristics of their gender and most of the time they cannot be erased. Tall masculine men look like tall masculine women. Short effeminant women look like short effeminant men. Vocal chords are deeper or higher and all the efforts of science leave the person feeling short of the ideal self image.

I do not expect the moralists, or those who fear sexual issues to have compassion, but the rest of you can at least see the value in delaying puberty in these people until they are older, and can make a decision. This process would also allow people to try out gender roles to see if they do fit. Most of us don’t have to sort that out. We are lucky. But what about those who are not so lucky.

I suggest that it is reasonable to think people can experiece their life as if they were in the wrong body. I suggest it is reasonable to use the knowledge we have to compensate for deficiencies we have at birth. And I suggest that God does not cause birth defects and it is possible that God understands the pain the child is going through and God understands the intent man has to end it.

No, the truth here lies in us. We all bring our own baggage to this issue. Christian, Atheist, Scientist or interested voyuer we all see what is in us in this situation. Your opinion about this may be an opportunity for you to look at yourself. What if…what if you woke up tomorrow convinced you are really the opposite sex inside. How well would all your pat answers hold up then? Think about this a little more before you judge others.

Medical research publications may have unequivocally supported transgenderism as “congenital” but it CANNOT be proven. Scientific research has not duplicated the outcomes in repeated experiments/tests for this because it is not a legitimate claim.
The choice to commit suicide is exactly that…A CHOICE. These people were not genetically programmed to kill themselves no more than a terrorist is programmed to commit atrocities.
Get the child in therapy!

Please everyone reading this……….pray. This has got to stop, people must see that this is pure evil at work.

Pray that GOD would intervene and stop this sick, twisted, demented evil that threatens those most innocent.

Thank you Dr. Norman Spack for single-handedly making the world more screwed up.

Hey Tony, I don’t think anyone on here is being hateful and gay bashing, you are the one turning this into what it is not, people on here are concerned about what we are doing to the children we are supposed to be protecting. Get a Life

For those of you who comment negatively on transgender children and the doctors who understand their condition and treat them accordingly, let me say that your opinion would dramatically change if you had a child that was born transgendered.

Being transgender is not a choice a child makes; simply, it is a child knowing their birth gender does not match the gender they see themselves to be. Let me ask you this question. How old were you when you realized you were a boy or a girl? Were you 18? No, you were no older than a toddler before you understood that you were either a boy or a girl.

Now take a transgender child at that age when they come to their parents and say, I’m not a boy/girl, I’m a girl/boy. These children know what they are, regardless of what gendered body they are born into.

Why would responsible, understanding, and accepting parents not seek out treatment from such doctors as Dr. Spaek to delay the development of puberty until the transgender child is old enough and responsible enough to make a decision regarding use of hormone therapy or sexual reassignment surgery? Do you have any idea what it is like for a transgender child to go through the puberty of the opposite gender? Such development causes great anguish and mental crisis for these kids, many of whom will take their own lives. Personally speaking, I would much rather have a happy, healthy, and living child than to have a dead one, because I would not allow him/her to express themselves to be the person they are.

For those of you who are so good at making Christian-based responses, I will end with this. God does not create imperfections, and my transgender son is not imperfect. He is as God created him to be……transgender.

God bless doctors such as Dr. Spaek and parents/families who understand, accept, and support their transgender children.

Probably better to wait till about just before puberty, around 12-13 years old

Tony you say this isn’t about God, than why are you goin on ranting about gospels and such…pathetic

This is disgusting. This is the kind of thing that has brought our once great country to the discrace with no morals it is today.

This is just another way for the drug companies to make more money. a 7 year old dose not know what he/she wants or needs. They are still growing up they dont even know or understand what they are feeling. this doctor should be executed, its sick. if God made your a boy than you are a boy if you where made a girl you are a girl, its as simple as that. i bet their are not strong father figures in these kids lifes

it really Pis#es me off that people have the nerve to back this up, you bet your a%! is the end times. the end of all descency!

I agree with you Carmen

This is the most outrageous thing I have seen in a long time. Right up there next to “Homosexual Marriage”! The person that does this to a child is a sick, twisted individual and is not a doctor but definitely needs treatment him or herself… This is to the level of Sodom and Gomorrah but what can we expect from MA, they elect Ted Kennedy and John Kerry a couple of outrages themselves.

Dr. Spack – Repeat after me: A child cannot give informed consent. Period.

Tony,
What the heck are you smoking? nobody is bashing gays if you want to be gay that is your business i don’t mind. My concern is that the best intrest of the children is not being served. Children can not make choices of this magnitude that is why they are not allowed to vote until 18.. duh!

In Leviticus 18:22 God calls homosexuality an abomination. People who think God would agree with sex changes definately need to look up the word ABOMINATION in the dictionary. The fact that this is even a topic is sickening. Our country definately needs prayer now more than it ever has.

As North America gets farther away from God, the more more sinful stupidity things are happening, this is not part of the way God created this world to function, and sadly too many people are going to realize it when it is too late and are spending eternity in Hell. Maybe everyone needs to start reading Gods word-the Bible- more often.

There is no gay gene and the twin study proves that as well. Social and family dysfunction, traumatic incidents are what cause this confusion in children as well as adults. If transgender, homosexuals etc. were born this way there would be alot more then 3% walking around. Social pressures, political correctness, mental illness and just plain idiotic thinking also nurture this type of thinking. It is also wrong to try and declare this a civil right as issue because you are not born gay and it is choice made due to some mental problem or gender confusion.

It is a very, very sad day in American when judges overule the voters voice and then to want to shoot up our children with a drug to allow them to choose what sex they would like to be. God have mercy upon us.

This story is one of the reasons why Muslims love to hate the US…and in this respect, in this story, I can almost understand it. Why?????? Why is this done to children?

This is nucking futs. Kids these days already have it hard enough, and now we’re throwing sex changes at them. Christ Almighty, see how fast this world is going down the shi*ter, i’ve decided that im never going to have kids. Its just unfar to bring them into this world and have to have them deal with all this junk. Personally I do find myself wondering what it’d be like to be a female…from time to time ( I think females have it easier than males), but would I EVER consider a sex change? Fu*k no!
Transgenerism is a mental disease, not a medical abnomily. Being born with 2 heads. Having 3 hand instead of a foot. THOSE are medical conditions.

If we are going to let them make decisions such as this that affects the rest of their lives, thatn they should decide then what they want to do when they grow up, get married, hell, lets have them move out, after all they know who they are and what they want at 7 right?

I hear there’s a pedophile gene…a beastiality gene… an a incest gene also. Get real.

Just when you thought you’ve seen it all… another liberal squeezes out another thought like this. Forget global warming… I predict we’re going to implode in 20 years if they’re allowed to have many more thoughts.

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Comment by declan
May 19th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

Dear “declan”:

Hitler was also made by God. Should we have just let him have his way as well? If you believe in God, then you must know that there is a satan too. He is also at work. Evil is not of God. Satan works really hard to be heard and seen in what men do. EVERYDAY.

I seriously think people need to stop bringing god into every issue.
This is a free country and there are many different beliefs…that is what makes us so unique.
None of you have any right to say what others can do with their own body…only god is allowed to judge; so read what you preach.

How dare you say what others can do with their body; you do not have to live with that feeling.

The only thing I think that may cause problems is that it might be a little dangerous for a young child to go threw that process. Your body does not stop growing till your in your 20’s so maybe there should be an age limits for health reasons.

Besides that, I have much respect that these poor children can admit how they feel to the public and doctors. I feel this way because of how many people are going to look down on them just because they have courage about their feelings while everyone else hides and judges them because they think they are important.

Live your own life.

ENOUGH !!!!!!!! Our Lord Created every one Special, I am SICK of HEARING about HOMOSEXUALS ,,WHO THINK THAT THE WORLD IS AFTER THEM, AND HOW THEY WANT ALL THESE SPECIAL RIGHTS,, GOD’S PLAN IS FOR MAN AND WOMAN TO BE AS ONE,, NOT TWO WOMEN AND NOT TWO MEN,, AND NOW WE HAVE A DOCTOR WHO IS OFFERING SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS TO OUR CHILDREN *** LEAVE OUR CHILDREN ALONE*** FORGIVE ME FATHER, BUT, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, IT BREAKS MY HEART TO WATCH SO MANY PEOPLE BEING DEVOURED BY SATAN, ONE DAY WE ALL WILL COME FACE TO FACE WITH OUR CREATOR ** LORD JESUS CHRIST** AND THE THOUGHT OF SPENDING ETERNITY IN A LAKE OF FIRE SCARES ME,, IT SHOULD SCARE ALL OF YOU ALSO,,, I FULLY REALIZE IT IS THE SIN,NOT THE PERSON, THE DEVIL IS A LIAR, THE DEVIL DESTROYS FAMILIES, PLEASE OPEN YOUR HEARTS,PLEASE DO NOT BE FOOLED,,,, JESUS LOVES US ALL SO VERY MUCH,,BUT,, HE DOES NOT CONDON HOMOSEXUALLITY,MURDER,LUST, GREED, STEALING, I COULD GO ON,, PROTECT OUR CHILDREN,, I SINCERELY PRAY THAT THERE IS NOT A PARENT OUT THERE CONSIDERING THIS SURGERY FOR THEIR PRECIOUS CHILD,, THE GREATEST GIFT YOU WILL EVER RECEIVE IS THE GIFT OF A CHILD,,, TAKE CARE OF YOUR CHILDREN, PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN, I HAVE HEARD SOME DISGUSTING STOMACH TURNING THINGS LATELY, BUT, THIS TOPS THEM ALL,, THIS DOCTOR “MUST” HAVE HIS LICENSE REVOKED ASAP, FOR THE PROTECTION OF OUR CHILDREN,,,,THIS DOCTOR IS DETERMENTAL TO THE WELFARE OF ANY CHILD!!!!!!! PEOPLE PLEASE OPEN YOUR HEARTS, OPEN YOUR EYES, IN A SENSE THIS DOCTOR IS A SEXUAL PREDITOR,,, AND SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BE AROUND ANY CHILD…. I PRAY THAT OUR LORD COMES BACK SOON, IT IS TIME,,,, THE EARTH IS COVERED WITH SO MUCH EVIL , SO MUCH EVIL…….. AND IF ANY OF YOU “DO NOT” THINK THAT THIS DOCTOR IS EVIL , THEN, I PRAY FOR YOU,,, SINCERELY,,, TRISHA HEROM

Oh, good lord…..it’s nearing the end of times, is it? Well, get this…..there have ALWAYS been transgendered people on this earth. It’s not something new; not a new biological phenomenon; Not some dark aura depicting a dark shadow upon the world and ushering in the ends of times.

You doomsayers need to get a life.

Every day children are born with visible, physical differences, be it one arm, one leg… Why is it so hard for people to accept the fact that children may be born with genetic differences, that are not visible to the eye??? While I do think childhood is a little young to start making physical, sexual changes, I fully understand the mental suffering that these children are going through. Anyone that can look at a transgendered 5 year old and talk about “choices” has bigger problems with their own lives to worry about!

This has to be the sickest crap I have heard in a while…just when you think you have heard it all!

These doctors need to stop playing God and maybe pick up a Bible. It might teach them a thing or two about respecting God’s creation. Remember what it says about people who hurt “one of these little ones”?!

The moral relativists are shoving their way to the front again soliciting our reverence for their phenomenal wisdom, ironically, in moral affairs! Remember preaching to us there are no absolutes? They sound pretty absolutist about this.. . . how loving and compassionate it all is! It’s like listening to a rapist trying to convince his victim he’s performing a surgical procedure.

May God have mercy on this man! This is another example of how distored this country has become. The world is so lost right now and does not even know what morals are anymore. This nation needs to repent before its too late. We are going to start and see more and more natural disasters, because of Gods judgement on this world.

I do not understand why doctors feel the need to utilize technology in such a manner of changing the gender of a child before they are even old enough to realize who they are or have formed an identity. At such a young age, they are making a permanent decision that will affect them for the rest of their life. Where is the logic in this? Step outside of your normal way of thinking and your perspective, and look at how we act these days (and no i’m not a ninety year old woman), but what is this world coming to?! We as society are creating things that are not natural. I am not descriminating against homosexuals, however, by changing the gender of a child, what are you doing to that individual. When you were seven years old, did you know what you wanted to do with the rest of your life?…Or did it take you several years and many changes to your origional plan to finally figure things out and get it right?
I don’t know why you feel the need to mess with how God intended things to be. If we accept abnormal behavior now, what will things be like twenty years from now? It’s to the point now that even though I love children, and can not imagine my life without the love of a child, I am not sure if I would like to bring child into the currupt world!
You need to think about this logically…What the hell are you doing making it okay for children at the young age of only SEVEN YEARS OLD to have a sex change???

This doctor has taken an oath to help his patients. By offering this “service” with accompanying long-term results at such an early age, he is doing “more harm than good”. …stated mildly. Shame on the powers that be at the hospital to allow such a grotesque scenario to occur.

Norman Spack is no doctor. He should be fired, then prosecuted, certainly lose his license.

This is insane. Do his superiors tolerate this. Find this man, where he lives and make his life terrible. He’s finished as far as medicine is concerned.

Nobody should be allowed to continue to practice medicine that wants to perform a sex change on a 7 year old. This man is a psycho.

Doesn’t Dr. Sills own commentary about the identical twin girls seem to indicate that this is predominantly a societal influence and not a genetic one. Identical twins (also referred to as monozygotic twins) share identical or nearly identical genetic sequences. They are formed by the splitting of a single fertilized egg into two embryos. This seems to indicate that there was no genetic inclination for one of the girls to become more masculine. It was likely the result of some incident in her life which was either different of perceived differently from her twin. Possibly it was some internal desire to differentiate herself from her twin, a common observation among identical twins. Saying that the two were brought up in exactly the same environment is a bit misleading as well. It is difficult to discern how a single event can impact the manner by which we perceive later events.

This is a perfect example of liberal doctors going wild (playing God) with humanity. The biggest problem is that this time they’re taking advantage of children, individuals lacking the mental aptitude to make these decisions for themselves. Although there are plenty of things I would love to do to any doctor performing such a procedure, they should at the very least be prohibited from practicing medicine at all.

As a child we all go through identity issues. To have a “doctor” act on a an identity issue with a child that does not have any reasoned understanding of the implications other than adolescent “confusion” is beyond belief. To me it sounds like another “specialty” being explored by the medical profession, not for the purpose of the healing arts, but for the profit margins of the “practitioners.”

The belief in god nowadays is a lil outdated people, please remember that, not everyone believes in the ever-jealous, angry, hypocrytical but “loving” christian god, it is NOT the answer to everything. As for the other argument, it is too young for them to really feel they should be the opposite sex. I think they should wait til later on in life when they are absolutely sure.

So—if a 7 year old boy picks up a Barbie, we whack off his willie??
or if a 7 year old girl plays with a GI Joe we sew one on??

How sick is this??? This is twisted and wrong…and knowing the wonderful state of affairs in Massachusetts–this will probably be funded with taxpayer dollars. Thanks to all of the sickos who have allowed this to even be topic for convesation. I wonder if the “doctor” who is opening his doors for such a procedure would be willing to perform one on a member of his family…

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What a very sad thing to see and hear about! This is crazy!!! Our children have no chance in this world with adults who have no moral values and do not take GOD’s word for truth! Very Sad!!

This is the true definition of a childhood mistake, but with Adult assistance.

yuck

If you are born a boy and “think” you should be a girl instead of giving hormons to be a girl give them hormons to be the boy they are…why change them? It’s the “I think, I feel, I want”…all about ME…fix it to fit ME type of life. Even if you mutate someones body you are still a boy…you can never stop being medicated or have children. It is an artificial life…just like being gay is a choice…I know that it is my choice who I am with. Gay people are saying they can not love or have a relationship with someone of the oppisite sex, why? Probable because you have chosen that and if not…then gay’s are very discriminating…
The human race has become a sicence experiment…in a couple 100 years humans will no longer know what love(not sex) is and there will be such a nothingness… Bless the poor little children who are always the first to be hurt by such acts by adults who think they know what is best for the human race. What is really sad they are the children’s worst enemy.

All i have to say that it’s an abomination with what so called science in doing with children . People should be outraged over this !!!!! It needs to be stopped ! What ever happened to a Gov’t by the people and of the people and for the people . But I guess it’s how 4 or 5 judges in calif. can over the vote of millions of people who oppose gay marriage . It’s getting worse in America. Just wait and see what happens if God forbid o’bamma becomes president , God help us!

Maybe it is time for our society to reject the dichotomization of gender and sexual identity, so that we can all finally realize that human beings are born within a spectrum of each. Once this takes place, children and adults who identify as transgender will not feel forced to conform to what society deems is normal. However, until this happens individuals who are born feeling like their gender does not match thier biological sex will strive through hormone therapy, surgery, etc to be “normal”.

Ok, this is nuts to think a child of the age of 7 knows that they want to be a girl or boy. When I was growing up I wanted to be a boy. Always told my mom I should of been one that God got it wrong with me. I have no women qualities in me at all. Still to this day I am a big tomboy but I am older now and wiser. God made me the way that I am. I am a women even though I don’t always act like one. When I want to be a girlie girl I am and when I want to hang with the guys I can be that also but God made me a girl.

Our founding fathers of this country must be spinning in their graves. This country was founded on GOD. To all you people out there who think christians should open their minds. Why don’t you open the bible and open your minds up and see the truth and the light and that is Jesus…….

So this is what is next? We aren’t satisfied with trying to change what God created as adults, but now we are spreading this terrible travesty to our children. What could a 7 year old child possibly know about “transgender problems”?

I think these procedures should be outlawed if they are not already and this doctor should be jailed for child abuse. And, the parents who opt for the procedure for their children should be prosecuted as well.

I am a pediatrician. All I can say about this is that in my opinion, this doctor and the hospital policies that allow him to operate are disgusting and harmful to the profession. Our fundamental oath as a physician includes a promise to “do no harm.” These procedures harm these kids physically, mentally, socially, and permanently. Personally, I think he should immediately have his license revoked. I’m not sure that he shouldn’t go to jail, along with the parents who allow this. I assure you that not all physicians subscribe to this insanity, and the ones that do should be purged.

Brent

Dr. Spack is an amazing doctor, and very much in tune with the needs of his patients. He is an expert in the field, and this article in incredibly distorted. This isn’t therapy he imposes on children — he very cautiously offers his patients time… the time to decide who they are, before the permanence of puberty sets in. You have to weight the risks and benefits, as with any medical procedure, and the latter clearly outweighs the former in all of his cases. Please, don’t be lazy — require more from your news service than reactionary rhetoric.

If our children are “mature” enough to make such serious and committed decisions about their bodies when they are only 7 years old, then why do we have laws in place that place age limits on smoking, drinking, driving, entering the service, getting married, having sex legally, etc. I thought those laws were in existence to protect the young and immature until they are old enough and mature enough to make such life altering decisions. At the age of 7, my boys were playing with cars and toy dinosours not making decisions as to whether they want to be girls! I wouldn’t even allow my son to get a tattoo until he was 2 years into the service because I wanted him to get one that meant something…one that he could live with the rest of his life…not one that he would regret. The thought of a 7 year old making such a committed decision is absolutely ridiculous!

I am speechless. If our society continues down this wicked path, we are doomed. It seems that we as a human race take a step away from God every day. And it is hearing things such as this that makes me think that soon we will be hearing a trumpet and that will be the end of this earth.

This is absolute garbage. Someone needs to stop this idiot before he ruins the lives of any more families.

It is an outrage against innocent children. and to the mother of a transgender child, you don’t deserve to be a mother! There has been murder since the beginning of mankind, does that make it right?? This world is going nuts… and there will be an end to it. believe it or not.

Some children can feel as if they are the opposite sex as a protective mechanisim as a result of sexual abuse. Its called dissociation…It may or may not last in to adulthood depending on the severity adn longevity of the abuse

What many people are failing to realize is that absolutely no medical alterations are done at pre puberty ages. The child simply lives as whichever gender s/he feels comfortable in. If they should decide at a certain point that they’re comfortable living in their birth gender role, they can revert to their birth gender with no harm done. In addition, when they do reach puberty, the blockers would be prescribed only if the child was in extreme distress about the lasting effects of puberty. Finally, as a person who is transgendered, I knew from early childhood that my perception of my gender did not match my birth sex.

One component that is not being discussed is the part that parents and other adults play in how a child sees himself or herself. If a child senses that an authority figure wants a certain type of behavior from their child – the child will try to meet that expectation. This may play a part in whether a child likes being a girl or boy. Parents often want either a girl or boy and then treats the child in a certain manner. Children want to be accepted!!! If adults would become more loving and accepting of their children – their children could love themselves as they are. Also, if the parents don’t really love themselves, how can we expect those same people to show unconditional love to their children.

Sick and wrong, children should not be subjected to this. Why isn’t this guy up for child abuse?

Liberal philosophy at work…

This is a sick doctor and he should be jailed. Where is God in all of this, the end of the world is really at hand.

Puberty Supression isn’t ’sex change for kids’.

As a parent of a gender variant ten year old, I know what I’m talking about. This behavior is inborn, innate, and inalterable. Sometimes brains don’t match bodies.

Nobody asks for this. For some parents the choice is between accepting their children as they are, and compelling them to pretend to be something they aren’t. Children who are rejected, who are forced to conform, have elevated risks for depression, suicide, and self mutilation.

Until you’ve had YOUR five year old child threaten suicide, over and over and over again, for years, you don’t understand this. When that same child, once accepted for what they are, goes off of all psychiatric medication, succeeds in school, and becomes a happy and whole being, then you begin to get it.

If you don’t have one of these kids, just shut up. You don’t know anything. I certainly didn’t before my son was born. (I have a gender normative child who is a yea younger, too. This has nothing to do with parenting.)

No child abuse. No sexual abuse. Intact nuclar heterosexual white-bread family. No trauma.

This has nothing to do with God. God makes intersexed people (people with both sets of genitals.) God makes conjoined twins. God has allowed us to pollute the rivers with estrogenic pesticides, filling them with transgender fish. God also makes transgender people.

So far, all those studied who have gone through early transition have had good outcomes. All those studied in a the recent literature are happy about their decision.

This decision cannot be put off for some. Puberty wrecks these children, in many cases.

I’ve met transitioned teenagers. They appear perfectly normal. The MTFs don’t look like John Lithgow in a dress; the FTMs look and act like normal teenager boys.

Some of these kids will grow up to be gay; some will grow up to be trans; some will grow up to be heterosexual. The important thing to listen to them, and let them be who they are.

Puberty suppression buys some time. It’s reversible. It allows the child to put off a puberty which could wreck their life, while they gain maturity to make the irrevocable decision.

These aren’t easy questions for parents, doctors, or kids. All we know for sure is, that left to ‘nature’ these kids commit suicide; frequently, they leave their unnaccepting families and become prostitutes to afford hormones and surgery.

If you would condemn your child to a lifetime on the streets as a prostitute…well. That doesn’t strike me as being particularly good or Christian. And that is the alternative for many of these kids. That is how this plays out in the real world.

Shoot Norman. Shoot the parents. Get the kids to a home where they will be loved. Harry, You’re a sick freak.

Transgenderism is a very difficult and complex problem. The world is not, unfortunately, black and white on many issues. There is no easy solution to the people who are born with both sexes and I contend there is no reason that transgendered people should have to fight the stigma of being a social pariah. Transgenderism has little or nothing to do with homosexuality and I cannot see that it is ungodly, unless we believe that any operation is against God. That would make my mother’s cancer treatments ungodly also. I cannot accept that.
Transgenderism does, unfortunately, condemn many to very unhappy lives. If we as a society were understanding maybe we wouldn’t try and chase these people away from the God who is rightfully their own. Self-righteousness and ignorance are greater sins than having a sex change. They don’t want to live perverted lives. They just want to be the person they have always known themselves to be. Of course even the procedures in place now should be followed very carefully in the case of children. The standards are very exacting, if you care to read about them.

God never makes a mistake. Never. Just google “Nick’s Testimony”(Rita’s utube)

This is absolutely insane. Kids play in gender differences all the time; it’s a part of how they learn who they are. Also many kids will have traits of the opposite sex as they get older, and it’s just a part of who they are.

How can these doctors say that there’s a gene for wanting to be the opposite sex? Has it been isolated? The case study with the twins means nothing. The twin who was pretending more than likely just wanted to be different from her twin, and, to kids, the most obvious way to do that is to pretend you’re a different sex.

How can these parents go through with this? Can they really believe that a 7yo fully understands the consequences of what is happening to them? To a kid, changing sex is just a matter of dressing like mommy or daddy, whoever is the opposite sex. They have no idea of what makes a person a certain sex, other than appearances. And a 7yo is supposed to understand what infertility is, and what it will mean when they get older?

What crap..
This is a direct quote from Dr. Spack..
“In some cases, it can take weeks to decide what’s best for the patient,”

from: http://www.childrenshospital.org/views/april07/new_clinic_addresses_intersex_and_gender_issues.html

Really weeks to decide what is best for a seven year old child. Weeks to decide how the rest of the childs life will be spent.. Weeks to determine if the theropy is worth causing all sorts of physical and mental problems that will not be obvious until adulthood. Really, it takes weeks to make all these hi powered desicions for what is best for the children. Who the hell put you in charge of creation? A child with this “condition / mental disorder” has no idea what the hell they are doing and neither does the Doctor apparently. Doesn’t the hypocritical oath say “I shall do no harm”. Somebody take this nut jobs liscense and lobby your goverment officials to stop all federal funding to this butcher shop of a hospital. A hospital of that size gets some federal funding im sure. If an adult would like to change his/her gender fine i don’t care, but i shouldn’t have to see my tax dollars go to any part of it. Children are not of sound enough mind to come to this conclusion on there own. This is about parents who are ashamed of the children trying to justify the way a child acts. Face it people kids are not perfect but they grow up to be who they are supposed to be. If your going to do hormone theropy then do theropy to accomidate the body the child has. not the one they think they want. No matter what they do the chromzones will still be the same.

Are you kidding me??? This is horrible. This gives no right for a doctor to open his doors to kids as early as age 7. A kid at the age of 7 has no clue what is going on with there body. Just because a young girl likes to wear baggy jeans and dress like a boy or a young boy likes to play with dolls and wear dresses, does not mean they need a sex change. They are experimenting, it is part of growing up and understanding yourself. What is this world coming to. Which ever sex you are born, it was meant to be. This doctor just wants more money.

Wow! I am truely amazed at the number of individuals who have commented on this story, who, invoke “God”! And Then ‘damn’ the Doctor! Until “YOU” have walked in the shoes of a Transgendered person be them Male or Female, Young or Old, How dare you “JUDGE” them! I assume that all of you, who have so self-rightously commented, have looked in a mirror today! You are so perfect, so have it all together? I think not! One of the biggest and worst weapons in the universe is the weapon of “Religion”! It is used by some of you to beat, mame, and kill your fellow man. You make me sick with the spewing of your hate and venom. The religious radicals in other parts of the world use car bombs and terrorism. The religious radicals in America use self-righeous judgement and condemnation, and HATE! And, you both think you are justified in this behavior? When Judgement finally comes, I do not wish to know the punishments that you will receive for your actions and deeds to your fellow man.
May God Truely Have Mercy on Your Souls!

IS THIS HOSPITAL AND DOCTOR ARE KIDDING ME RIGHT HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET

Dr. Spack’s critics would have those of us with transgender children force them into roles that are unnatural for them. Many of our friends who are parents of transgender children have had to face either accepting their children’s inherent gender as different from their biological sex or else losing them to suicide. We rejoice in the availability of treatments that allow our children to be themselves!

No loving parent would choose their child’s suicide.

Gender is inherent, determined before birth. Ask yourself, how did you know YOUR gender? The children Dr. Spack treats KNOW their gender differs from their biological sex. I applaud his work!

I can’t believe anybody could call this illegal while we still circumcise babies against their will.

I feel this is totally wrong. Look at the woman that took hormones to be a male and now decided to have a baby and is having one. Looks like she went back to what she was born to be, a female. I believe that God made the way you are for a reason and no person should ever try to change that.

I had a boss, games collaborator, and friend that decided late in life (after he had been married with women twice) that he wanted to be a woman himself. He had the operation and later regretted it greatly.

“Being my ‘real self’ could have included having a penis and including more femininity in whatever forms made sense. I didn’t know that until too late and now I have to make the best of the life I’ve stumbled into. I just wish I would have tried more options before I jumped off the precipice.” Quote: Dan/Danielle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Bunten_Berry

Dan/Danielle was in his 40’s at the time of his rash decision… not 4 or 14. Sex change operations for children is insanity and pure greed.

I am a post operative transexual, adult. This is not something I woke up one morning and decided. It is something that was with me as long as I can remember. Had I transitioned as child there is a chance that I could have had a much more normal life as a teenage girl etc. The male hormones have left their mark on me and this could have been avoided had I had hormone therapy beginning at age “7″ than at age 25 .

I find this article crass and sensational. Comparing Dr Spack’s treatment to castration is really over the top. What an insensitive way to present this important topic.

KR

THIS IS ONE OF IF NOT THE SICKEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD OF. IF A PARENT HAS 2 BOYS AND WANT A GIRL WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO NOW TAKE ONE IN FOR A SEX CHANGE. OR A FATHER NEEDS A SON TO CARRY ON THE FAMILY NAME POW GIRL NOW A LITTLE BOY.

This is insane! Seven year old CHILDREN don’t even understand what a sex change is. I hope the parents of these children take ALOT of time to really think about things before they send thier children off to have a sex change.

This article is a great example of why I am increasingly leery of doctors. Unfortunately the medical and science communities are pretty much owned by lobbyists and pharmeceutical(sp?) companies to the point where you can’t trust anything they have to say anymore. Doctors are nothing but drug dealers and butchers now who are no longer really interested in healing people (with very few exceptions). I love to study science and am a 3.9 GPA biology student, so it makes me sad to see that real science (the study of the natural world) has become confused with “scientism” (the philosophy of science, in other words ‘how can we manipulate scientific studies to fit our preconcieved notions or desires’). As a result we now have secular humanists and athiests using the guise of real science to support their political and personal agendas. Unfortunately the victims of this biased agenda are people such as these who are ‘gender confused’ and could probably benefit greatly from counseling and carefully controlled, short-term drug therapies. Unfortunately, no good research will ever be done to help these folks because this ‘trans-gender’ dysfuncion is like gold to secular humanists who want to push their goal of how society should be….where everyone does as he or she pleases with no consequenses for one’s actions because nothing is wrong or right.

this doctor has lost his mind,your fired,,,,,,,,

This doctor has serious mental issues and should not be allowed to treat children at all. However, wehre are the parents during all of this? Or are they just as mentally deranged as he is?

I thought that Childrens Hospitals were a place that children could receive medical help and be safe. However, Boston Hospital has now made me realize that ethics is not a part of the medical profession any longer. The AMA and others will let any one practice medicine….on anyone.

As a medical student, I could go into the things I have learned and act like I know more than I do, but bottom line, this is a warped, perverted idea. If an adult wants to do it that’s there business, but it won’t be me overseeing the “treatment”… but kids, abso-freakin’-lutely not!!! Any parent who claims they love their child and lets a “doctor” like him do this is unfit as a parent.

I can not see any reasonable excuse to let this even be an option for children. This is a another opportunity to sling the all-too-famous phrase SLIPPERY SLOPE around. If this is permitted, what next? I dread to think.

All this is is child abuse with the assistance of a someone from a traditionally respected position.
Dr. Spack has totally lost my respect, and I had never heard of him prior to this article.

I appologize for not being very eloquent, but this really burns my buscuits! And I’m going to shut up before I overstep my bounds.

And now, from the land of Ted Kennedy + Barney Frank, may we proudly
present Dr. Norm Spack, the doctor who knows more than God ……
I would presume they will figure out a way to have the sheep-like
citizens of Massachusetts pay for these bizarre experiments with
tax dollars …….?

#1) Nobody is butchering anybody. We are talking about hormones, not surgery.

#2) Dr. Spack is giving patients the choice. That is the point of his clinic. To delay puberty to a point where patients can decide for themselves after taking an appropriate time for reflection and maturity.

I expect this sort of reaction from your media demographic, but it still ceases to amaze me the ignorance that runs rampant in America.

I am a father of eight children, all from within the same marriage of my wife of twenty years. These Dr.’s and supposed experts obviously have an agenda. Every one of my children ages three to nineteen have differing moods and reaction from year to year. None of them are the same and all have their own personality. These children with these identity issues is not a matter of gender or science or anything else. It is a matter of a father and a mother in a loving relationship, showing that same love to their children. A father taking on the responsibility of fathering and a mother likewise. Sure its unfortunate that these children are confused and my heart goes out to them. Its not the medical field that is their answer. It goes right back to the parents. No child has the capacity to make the judgment on changing his or her gender with the mind of a child that is why God gave parents to raise them to become men and women. That is the responsibilty of parents. People who want to alter these poor confused children should be hauled in for child abuse and place these kids in a loving home where they can be raised in a proper invironment.

Sincerely,
Steve , an exstremely upset parent.

I couldn’t believe I just read this story!! I am very disappointed in Boston’s Children’s Hospital and with Dr Norman Spack. I thought this was a hospital dedicated to saving children’s lives. instead I am reading about sex change operations and hormonal treatment to slow down puberty in children. I am appalled!!! The reason the suicide rate is higher in transgender youth is because they are playing and portraying an unatural role they were never intended to in the first place. That is where the inner tormoil lies within mentally, emotionally, then eventually, physically. If you want to help in this area, concentrate on the mental aspect. Help these children to correct they’re thinking. Don’t help them go with there feelings, feelings come and go. Tell them the truth!! If you were born a boy, you were made to be a man!! If you were born a girl, you were made to be a woman!! You weren’t born to be with the same sex intimately, if you were you would have been born the opposite sex!!!
I intend to tell everyone I know about this article and about the things be considered and practiced by Boston’s Children’s Hospital!!
Signed: SHOCKED!!

It is not these doctors choice to play GOD or not. Kids are born uneducated and confused and it is our job as parents to educate and explain things to them. Just because they feel one way one day the may change their minds. Look at how often kids change girlfriends and boyfriends growing up each time claiming they are so in love. Let them be kids and become educated and make this decision later in life. There are lots of happy gay men and women in this world that are happy being just that. What happened with kids being kids?

These doctors are whacked. God help any parent who listens to them!

A three year old needs correction and direction from it parents, not a medical procedure. What are they teaching in our medical universities? Moronism?

Folks, we have absolutely become a GOD-less society!!!! By our actions, it is evident that a believe and obedience to GOD no longer exist in this nation!!!! Take God out of lives and nothing is left!!!!

We will continue to pay dearly in our nation!!!!!!!!

IF IT IS OUT THERE, SOMEONE WILL GO FOR IT. THE THING IS, IT SHOULD NOT BE OUT THERE, FOR CHILDREN. THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHERE WE ARE GOING AS A SOCIETY TODAY. SAD ISN’T IT, BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT WE WILL BE ALLOWED TO GO JUST SO FAR BEFORE OUR CREATOR STOPS ALL THE SICK THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON IN OUR WORLD TODAY. I KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY GOOD PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE PRAYING FOR THIS POOR PLANET OF OUR’S AND HOPEFULLY MOST OF YOU THAT ARE READING THIS ARE TOO. IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN ANYTHING, PRAY ANYWAY, IT CERTAINLY COULDN’T HURT, AND WE NEED ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET, AFTER ALL YOU’RE ON THIS PLANET OF OUR’S TOO. GOD BLESS US ALL.

When I was a little girl, I was a tomboy. I liked to behave like a boy and do all the things a boy does. As I reached puberty, my hormones started kicking in and I started doing all the things girls do and felt totally feminine. How does a seven-year-old know what’s going to happen in the future, expecially when the teen years hit? Our society continues to play God, usually with dire consequences. When will we all learn that God’s creations can never be immproved upon?

This was tried in Canada several years ago, 1970’s, and the children is was done on have ALL had miserable adult lives. Everyone of them has been treated for depression and anxiety, a couple tried to have the horrible procedure reveresed and several of them have committed suicide. Those still alive filed a class action lawsuit against the doctor and the hospital.

The ‘good’ doctor who performed those horrific acts said the same exact thing the two nut doctors in this article are now saying.

As for the person who goes around to hospitals ‘educating’ doctors on transgender treatments for children in Asia, and Europe, it’s funny how they left out the horrific statistics of suicide rates among children and teens in these countries.

We need to protect our children and allow them to grow up before hitting them with this kind of garbage.

To the person who “knows the 11 year old boy who makes a lovely little girl”, just because the father isn’t recognizing the child’s gifts and abilities doesn’t mean he needs an sex-change operation. It means the father needs help realizing that you don’t have to hunt, love auto-racing, play football or go camping to be a man. Quit sterotyping everything!

I would be very interested in how well-ordered Dr. Spack’s mind is. The first thing I would look for is a thirst for the unusual, tendencies towards perversion, covert or otherwise, and other passive-aggressive/covert hostility-type behavior. He might want to change his name to something more appropriate to his inclinations also — like maybe Mengele-Light?

Cheers!

OK, I’m a Christian, but to approach the topic at that level would amount to “preaching to the choir” for some of you, and “casting pearls before swine” for the rest. Here’s my initial thought on this: The PC, liberal types seem really wishy-washy now on the importance of gender differences. Currently, if you go to some malls, colleges, etc. you find gender-neutral dressing rooms, restrooms, dorm rooms, and the like, because we were told “gender doesn’t matter”. Gender also doesn’t matter if you want to get married in the state of Massachusetts – men can marry men, and women can marry women. So….help me – if gender doesn’t matter, why does this doctor feel so compelled to make Little Junior’s outsides fit his Miss Thing insides? If gender didn’t matter when I feel the need to use the facilities (and, being female, it’s OK that I’m peeing in a stall next to a guy), why does it matter that someone “feels” like a girl when they are built like a boy? If there are no differences, then there are no “guy” feelings and “girl” feelings, so why alter someone’s body based on “feelings”? Any other time, calling something a “guy” feeling or a “girl” feeling would be considered stereotyping by this people, but now it’s not? I don’t think it’s the kids who are confused – it’s the scientists.

Dr. (I use that term loosely) Paul Mchugh is a right wing idolouge who is against any science. He is bush’s science adviser and is against abortion, stem cell research but will kill someone in prison…. Total hypocrite. The doctor in Boston is counseling these kids and giving them the chance to make a decision when they are emotionally, legally and intellectually able to make a very important decision. Transsexualism, Homosexualism and HETROSEXUALISM… does not go away with therapy the only thing you can do is support the patient and let them make informed decisions about their life.

All you “this is against God” should ask yourselfs a question… where is your compassion and what if someone came to you and asked you to go to therapy to be Gay…. Think it would work?

Grow up Conservative Republicans, this is America. This doctor is a God send. All you conservative freaks are ignorant. Transgender is not a mental problem it is a gene problem. If you want to be a male Wonder Woman as a child and then grow up normal and be a lawyer thats fine. But if you grow up as a boy and you acted more normal as a girl thats a different story. I say if your child is happier as a girl instead of a boy then when he fully understand what’s going on then let him decide what he wants to be. Once again, GROW UP you freaks this doctor is a GOD send.

To all of you “good” Christians, who find treating Gender Identity Disorder (GID) harmful or disgusting:

for the men: Imagine yourself forced to wear dresses and panties, and berated every time you act like a man.

for the women: Imagine yourself forced to wear boxer shorts and bind your breasts, and berated every time you act feminine.

Now ask yourself; how long could you face life living in a gender that you did not feel was natural to you?

That is what happens to children with GID.

The condition is not new, and has existed in every culture. There are records of individuals who have suffered from GID throughout recorded history. NO ONE wants GID, and it is not a psychiatric disorder. It is a CONDITION which causes extreme emotional discomfort. Untreated, the disorder is responsible for extremely negative psychological repercussions – severe depression and suicide. Fortunately, the condition is fairly rare. There is NO form of counseling or therapy that can alter an individuals natural identification with their gender. Medical treatment and counseling to assist in a transition to their target gender is the ONLY hope currently available. With this intervention, individuals suffering from GID have the potential to feel comfortable as the human beings that THEY are. Before any person – child or adult – is provided medical intervention, they receive a thorough psychological evaluation. It is NOT provided capriciously – especially in the instance of children. Gender reassignement or sex change surgery is NEVER performed on children under 18. Hormone BLOCKERS are provided to children with GID to delay the effects of puberty until the child is older and more certain of their own decision.

Dr. Spack is a courageous and caring human being. If you were educated on the subject, you would already know it. Unless you find all surgery and medical intervention against God’s will. Unless you hate a surgeon who would slice open a child’s mouth to correct a cleft palate.

Now you can go back to being the gender you feel comfortable with. It should only be that easy for those poor kids.

I believe it’s absurd that any adult would think this is a good idea. Simply because, there are many things in life that I myself didn’t know about myself until I reached adulthood. Of course at the age of 15 or so I felt I was grown and knew everything, I felt my parents were just being hard on me. I, myself, went through many changes from the time I was a little girl until now, I used to be somewhat of a tomboy, all my friends were boys, and even when I was in college I would go from one day dressing preppy, and the next day dressing in baggy pants and a oversized shirt. Point being, EVERY child goes through different phases throughout their lives, let these children be children. Nowadays everybody want children to grow up so fast, and i really don’t believe hormonal drugs are the key. Who knows what side effect this would have on individuals 40 years down the line…..would it really be worth it? We really didn’t know the effects that smoking would have on our bodies, until many years later, now look, it’s being prohibited everywhere. Cell phones, just read an article today where cell phones can be bad for an unborn child. LET GO AND LET GOD!!!!

Patriot, you are an absolute idiot. If you even took the time to read the website you would have realized what you were quoting as needing only mere weeks to make a determination about are conditions that used to be treated as needing immediate attention. Read the damn article before you start making irrational judgements and you may learn a thing or two about actual medical conditions. For those of you on the far wacko extreme of the Christian (laughable) right, just because it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, means it might be a wolf in sheeps clothing.

http://www.childrenshospital.org/views/april07/new_clinic_addresses_intersex_and_gender_issues.html

I would like to say something to those of you who act out on your attractions to the opposite sex. First of all we all experience a desire to do things that are wrong. Doing them doesn’t make it right. If a man acts out on a desire to have an affair behind his wifes back does it make it right? Are his desires to cheat any less viable then someones desire to act out on same sex attraction? Of course not. We all have to resist temptation and it comes in many different ways. Some of the posts talk about how miserable they are because they are acting out on same gender attraction and they blame their misery on society. They blame us because we don’t accept their actions and choices. Have you ever thought that you are not happy because the choices you make are wrong and against your potential? There was a professor at West Virginia University who was hired by the university to teach Gay and Bi students how to avoid getting AIDS and he contracted it himself through multiple homosexual relationships. He then wrote an article blaming “disrimination” for his contraction of the virus. WHAT? People take responsibility for your own actions and stop forcing innocent children to choose your lifestyle to make you feel better about the poor choices you have made!!! Many of you will be offended by me saying that but remember we ALL have a right to free speech and the right to say what we think is right and what we think is wrong.

FOR MR. O’REILLY,

I HAVE BEEN WORKING AND MINISTERING TO THE HOMOSEXUAL COMMUNITY FOR OVER 30 YEARS….HAVE READ MOST REPORTS ABOUT CAUSES ETC…EVERY REPORT (FIND ONLY ONE THATDOES NOT) INDICATES THAT A CHILD IS NOT BORN “THAT WAY”…AS FAR AS I CAN DETERMINE THE SEXUALY ORIENTATON IS CAUSED ( NOT CHOSEN) BY PARENTS DELIBERATELY OR BY ABUSE . A CHILD OF 6,7,OR 8 HAS NOT IDEA OF SEXUAL CHOICE.
THE MINISTRY THAT I AM A PART OF IS CALLED “COURAGE” . THE MAIN OFFICE IS IN NYC,
AT: CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, 210 WEST 31ST ST. NYC; WEB SITE: CourageRc.net or Courage RC.org Email: NYCourage@aol.com. It is national and international Also as a part of its ministry is Encourage–for Parents. I am becoming flustered at the greater inundation of TV and politics trying to indicate that homosxuality is normal–but don’t give the stats on suicide, sicknesses and human suffering. We are told quickly and often that there are genetic, or chromozone or brain size, or ????. Show me one authentic proof….just one! We get all sorts of polls and percentages….Does anyone ever ask the oercentage number of homsexuals in USA–the entire 50 states??? Take a guess? Most are off a lot….Some say 25%…As far as the study can determine it is only 4% ! 2.? men and 1.? women.. I am “speaking our” now because the Media is jamming the opposite erronious material at not only adults,,, but our children. Thank you for looking into this matter.
Retired Pastor and founder of 2 new parishes , Teacher at several of our High schools and Chaplain at UNC chapel Hill. (Fr.) Tom Palko, OSFS

Its the responsibility of the parents to nurture their children and take an active roll in guiding them through their developmental years. A child’s mind and comprehension of rolls and the ever changing condition of their own bodies brings questions and doubts.

Children are their own worst enemies. Especially in the early teen years. They are some of the most cruelest of humans when it comes to their peers. Its a parents job to counter those voices.

Parents who ignore the truth but buy into this modern day lie that a child’s feelings and choices supersedes an experienced adult’s aren’t fit for parenthood, and need to be enrolled back into school themselves.

Dr. Spack is a Quack, and so is anyone else who can agree with him.

Only in Boston could this take place

I believe this is a terrible precedent! Regardless of hormone treatments and surgeries, at the heart of the matter is the person’s DNA still determines if a person is a male or female. What you have after these treatments is a hormone-induced and/or mutilated body. While the person’s current psyche may think this is what they want there is no going back if they change their mind. Age and a better outlook on life can do wonders. We too often want a quick fix for how we think the world views us or how we view ourselves. We need to encourage those who are unhappy with what they have been blessed with at birth to understand how to accept who they are and what gender they were born. Isn’t this the true calling of psychiatry? For people to learn to accept things they cannot or should not change and learn how to deal with them.

I agree with the others that have stated that as we “progress” in medicine we lose more of our spiritual gounding and come all that much closer to believing that we are God and not Him. We should all pray for our nation for the end cometh nigh!

Interesting comments from those who know absolutely nothing about transgenderism/transexualism/intersex conditions. From what fountain of knowledge do you all gain your wisdom? Please don’t bring your Bible to the table. This is an importtant topic … parents who get this far in searching for treatment usually have two choices: 1 – a dead child … 2 – A child who might (but might not) choose to transition their gender. Delaying puberty is not an irreversable process … but it could be a life-saving one. No-one is actively advocating surgery for any of these kids. Maybe you shoud take the time to actually consider gaining an understanding of the topic before commenting. You have no idea … stop acting and writing as if you do.

That’s just wrong. These are kids. The girl mentioned earlier is probably just a tomboy. Dear God, this is insane!

Well, I guarantee you that this doctor is a liberal, and, this is exactly how the modern liberal mind creates a delusional reality and attempts to justify their delusional behavior onto the rest of us. THis doc ought to loose his ability to prctice medicine. LIBERALISM REALLY IS A MENTAL DISORDER!!!!.

Transgendered, born gay or lesbian – give me a break. These kinds of beliefs and behaviors are created by an unhealthy mind as a result of some past emotional impact or event. There is no such thing as gay/lesbian/transgendered – only a sickness that causes them to believe these thoughts.

It is ridiculous to think that children are capable of making a decision to consent to a surgery or treatment that will have life long physical and psychological effects when developmentally they are not capable of understanding the consequences of such decisions, or even why certain effects of such actions might be important to them when they reach adulthood. Can a child fully understand a decision about fertility when they have not even reached puberty? Adults debate reproductive rights at length, and yet there are professionals who want to give children the option to have their ability to exercise these rights as an adult taken away before they ever reach adulthood? The slippery slope of thought that allows for this is not too far from saying children are capable of deciding if they can have pornographic photos taken of them or if they can be in a sexual relationship with an adult because they believe they are “older” or “more mature” than their biological age would indicate. There are reasons we distinguish childhood from adolescence, and adolescence from adulthood.

Wish gender reassingment had been an issue when I was a child..I have always wanted to be a female. Good luck and bless those who can now carry out their wishes….

This is highly unethical. If Children’s Hospital’s medical board have gonads, then they will not hesitate to suspend Dr. Spack’s privileges. I would like to hear what Dr. Russell of the American College of Surgeons has to say about this.

Close minded people always think the worst when confronted with something that can change the world for one individual. The differences of who we are make us who we are and there’s no changing that.

I won’t even begin to count how many of you called on “god” in this. If “god” caused them to be this way then “WE” have an obligation to correct it if we can. We do this all the time and have done so since the beginning of time it’s self. Ask yourselves this; if god is so loving and caring, why then do we have illnesses and accidents? Why are so many people “taken before their time?” Simple people, if he/she does exist, he/she doesn’t care enough. We make excuses for why someone left “before their time”. What if it was in fact their time to go? Who are we to question it?

And for those of you who have this way out belief that the homosexual community has something to do with trans-gerderism, GET A LIFE!!! Some of you are hypocrites and have “half baked” ideas of what and who everyone in the world should be and how we should all act. Go back into your little world and leave the rest of us alone.

Some of us like to think for our selves. We do not believe everything we read, hear or see. There are many things in this world that we cannot even begin to understand nor should we. Be happy and live your life as if it were the last one you have. You never know when it will be.

Stop picking on one doctor for calling this what it is. There have been many studies and they all, except for the religious doctors, say this is real and hold a strong belief that they can change it for the better. YOU back seat doctors, hypocrites and evangelicals stay out of real science because you are AFRAID of change.

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This is the sickest thing I have ever heard! The Bible says “Woe unto them who call evil good and good evil” This society is going to hell in a hand basket!! Oh yea, didn’t we just go through hearings in congress that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars to convict ADULT pro sports players for steroid abuse, and now we’ll give them to our kids at a drop of a hat!! Put this deadbeat ass of a “Physician” ( I use the term loosley) in jail for peddling performance enhancing drugs!

Is not if the children have this problems, it´s if the parents are sick enough (in their head that is) to seek such an aberration for their children, THERE ARE NO MISTAKES MADE WHEN THE INTELLIGENT CREATOR MAKES THEM.

Are you kidding me???!!! Kids that age don’t know what they want. I am saying this not only as a parent but also as a teacher of junior high kids. This is a life altering decision and one that should not be dealt with until a much older age. Kids are extremely confused about a great many things and I think most normal, rational adults would agree thus the reason they need parents so that they can have someone guiding them and giving them advice. I would hope no parent would agree to allow their child to make a decision like this at the age of 7, 10, or even 16. This doctor should be ashamed of himself for offering this to kids so young and I really hope the medical board looks into this as well.

God does not make mistakes! Why do these Dr.’s think they know better than our Creator?!

I often hear about a gene that enables homosexuality or “transgender” behavior. Homosexuals don’t have children. Transexuals don’t either. If there ever was a homosexual gene, don’t you think it would have faded away long ago?

Studies and statistics point to this behavior as a response to juvenile sexual abuse. For some reason people are afraid to bring the studies and stats to light and call it what it is.

This is a milestone… you’d be amazed the amount of suffering that will be prevented by letting these children be(come) themselves… I was butchered by a doctor as an infant and beaten brutally by my parents and others because I should “wait until I’m an adult to make that kind of choice… its not natural” As children, we know whats wrong with us… and until recently no one would listen. Heres cheers to Dr. Norman Spack. We are gods creatures, we were created by him and we are his example of Love thy neighbor… Allowing this at such a young age will allow these children to develop into who they are supposed to be, rather than who you expect them to be… and allows them to bypass hellish pubertys with the wrong hormones coursing through there veins doing irreversible damage. Knowledge defeats biggotry… Id rather eat of the tree of knowledge than be blissfully ignorant of the diversity of gods great varied and wonderful world.

My little girl thinks she is a dog. What kind of sicko mother would I be if I obliged her by allowing her to eat off the floor and stuck her in a kennel to sleep? But perhaps it would be considered inhumane to venture outside our species….for now. This is blatant child abuse and legal action should be taken immediately. These parents with all of their best intentions, should not have custody of children. And this doctor should be in jail.

The concern is that the doctor is NOT following the patients out for years. He is making claims that his therapies are beneficial and that they are NOT associated with suicide, however, he simply doesn’t have enough data to prove it. We all know how fickle children are… and unfortunately the consequences of his therapies are NOT fickle, they are permanent.

I would like to congratulate all the enlightened, free-thinking and educated people who have fought so hard in this country so that we can have these sorts of things available. Thank goodness that they have overcome all of us ignorant and close-minded folks who, let’s just face facts her, are so backwards as to think that this should not be available. I mean, just because God has punished nation after nation for this sort of thing (and all other types of perversions, I mean personal choices) in the past, it surely couldn’t happen again. Of course, that’s if we are even acknowledging that there is a sovereign God nowadays.

Proof that going to school for 7+ years and receiving a PHD doesn’t guarantee intelligence. It’s good to see other Dr’s condemning what I believe to be an atrocity. If you can’t get a tattoo until your 18, you sure as hell aught not be able to get a sex change. This is along the lines of the Nazi experiments conducted on the Jews. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

His license to practice medicine should be revoked and I hope that statute of limitation does not expire till one or more of his patients grows up and sues the crap out of him and their parents!

You have be 16 to drive. You have to be 21 to smoke or drink. Now we are going to let children, who can’t legally decide if they can get a tattoo or a piercing, to decide if they should have a sex change. Come on’, we Americans have been educated into imbecility. You know the next respond we will be… well, the parent or guardians help the child when making this very difficult decision. That is to say, any child who opts for this surgery has been brainwashed and will suffered for someone else’s mistake.

God have mercy on us.

Dr.Spack belongs to a psychiatric asylum. He capitalizes on deception and a fascist-grade cruelty toward children. On the other thought he belongs not to psychiatric asylum, but to a jail. Or if he twists human nature to such a caricature, why not perform a lobotomy on such a creep supported by his insane institution, where he works.

To all of you “good” Christians, who find treating Gender Identity Disorder (GID) harmful or disgusting:

for the men: Imagine yourself forced to wear dresses and panties, and berated every time you act like a masculine.

for the women: Imagine yourself forced to wear boxer shorts and bind your breasts, and berated every time you act feminine.

Now ask yourself; how long could you face life living in a gender that you did not feel was natural to you?

That is what happens to children with GID.

There are records of individuals who have suffered from GID throughout recorded history. The condition is not new, and has existed in every culture. NO ONE wants GID, and it is not a psychiatric disorder. It is a CONDITION which causes extreme emotional discomfort. Untreated, the disorder is responsible for extremely negative psychological repercussions – severe depression and suicide. Fortunately, the condition is fairly rare. There is NO form of counseling or therapy that can alter an individual’s natural identification with their gender. Medical treatment and counseling to assist in a transition to their target gender is the ONLY hope currently available. With this intervention, individuals suffering from GID have the potential to feel comfortable as the human beings that THEY are. Before any person – child or adult – is provided medical (hormonal) intervention, they receive a thorough physical and psychological evaluation. It is NOT provided capriciously – especially in the instance of children. They NEVER perform Gender Reassignment Surgery (sex change) on children under 18, and only at 18 with the parents consent. Without consent, the age is 21. Read what some of the parents of transgender children have said on this thread! Their children are tormented! Treatment allows the children to live happy and healthy lives.

Dr. Spack is a courageous and caring human being. If you were educated on the subject, you would already be aware of this simple fact…..unless you find all surgery and medical intervention against God’s will. Unless you hate a surgeon who would slice open a child’s mouth to correct a cleft palate. Or maybe you just hate anything that you are too lazy or too ignorant to understand.

Now you can go back to being the gender you feel comfortable with. It should only be that easy for those poor kids.

This is just another example of a lazy intellectual who has spent too much time around his own opinion among his closed peer group’s tea party. If you have more letters behind your name than in your name, it’s a problem.

As an ER nurse for who has worked in more than 30 different Emergency Departments across the country in the past 17 years, I have had the sad occasion to run across his ilk in the profession. Without getting into a debate over genetics, which has become more political than empirical, there is not one shred of legitimate scientific study or statistical truth that supports any theories on children being born transgendered or attracted to the same sex for that matter. Not one. Not according to my opinion. Everyone has search engine access. Look it up for yourself.

This entire movement is related to socially defined junk science. It is bad enough that parents allow their beautiful children to have plastic surgery before the age of enlightenment but this is a crime against humanity.

I am a twentysix year old Transgender male. I have no problem with someone who is eightteen and older having a sex change opperation if they choose to, but anyone who would want to do that to someone who isn’t even old enough to drive much less vote is just SICK.

everyone who thinks that transgenderism is a mental disorder and needs to be treated with behavior modification needs to spend time with someone who’s actually going through it!
‘behavior modification’ is just a glorified term for brainwash!!
these doctors are giving children a chance to lead their entire lives in a body that matches up with their mind, how can that be considered wrong?

I am so tired of hearing this crap about religion and “the homosexual agenda”. You are letting your ignorance and fear destroy any hopes of rational thinking. If all you ignorant fucking fools out there would take a minute or two and actually LEARN about transgenderism you would see that it is a birth defect and nothing more. For anyone who has not went through the hell of being transgendered to say that “we should not meddle in Gods work” or “God does not make mistakes” needs to learn to use your brains for a change. If it is possible to save a child from a lot of misery and sadness by doing this then I say great!! Anyone who would say that this is wrong obviously takes enjoyment from the suffering of others because by denying kids the opportunity to have this done at an early age you are just setting them up for a lot of mental turmoil. Plus, I am not so sure if a lot of people are aware of this but: This does not affect you in any way, shape, or form, so what the hell do you care? People like you who truly DO force YOUR agenda on people make me sick!!

For a child…this is insane! When my oldest daughter was young, she was very much a tomboy. She was the only girl in the neighborhood and acted like one of the guys. She is now a prissy tween worried about hair and makeup. Kids change their ways as they grow older. My three year old acts like a cat alot….does that mean i’m going to take her to a vet!? Gimme a break…..

Dr. Spack,

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I’m a transsexual male and I am 60 years old. Had I had known of the possibility of understanding, hormone therapy, and of gender resignment surgery as a prepubescent, I would have presented myself for transition to female at 7 yrs. I knew I was a girl before I was nine. My parents did their best to beat that idea out of me; and they succeeded, for a while. Now my body is male and no amount of surgery will change this sow’s ear into a silk purse.

All I’ve ever wanted in life was to live my life as a woman in the company of other women. Now, I’m approaching old age and eventually death, I believe my life has been wasted, because I couldn’t interact with it as a woman, for which that communication is so necessary. What a waste.

To all of you “good” Christians, who find treating Gender Identity Disorder (GID) harmful or disgusting:

for the men: Imagine yourself forced to wear dresses and panties, and berated every time you act masculine.

for the women: Imagine yourself forced to wear boxer shorts and bind your breasts, and berated every time you act feminine.

Now ask yourself – how long could you face life living in a gender that you did not feel was natural to you?

That is what happens to children with GID.

There are records of individuals who have suffered from GID throughout recorded history. The condition is not new, and has existed in every culture. NO ONE wants GID, and it is not a psychiatric disorder. It is a CONDITION which causes extreme emotional discomfort. Untreated, the disorder is responsible for extremely negative psychological repercussions – severe depression and suicide. Fortunately, the condition is fairly rare. There is NO form of counseling or therapy that can alter an individual’s natural identification with their gender. Medical treatment and counseling to assist in a transition to their target gender is the ONLY hope currently available. With this intervention, individuals suffering from GID have the potential to feel comfortable as the human beings that THEY are. Before any person – child or adult – is provided medical (hormonal) intervention, they receive a thorough physical and psychological evaluation. It is NOT provided capriciously – especially in the instance of children. They NEVER perform Gender Reassignment Surgery (sex change) on children under 18, and only at 18 with the parents consent. Without consent, the age is 21. Read what some of the parents of transgender children have said on this thread! Their children are tormented! Treatment allows the children to live happy and healthy lives.

Dr. Spack is a courageous and caring human being. If you were educated on the subject, you would already be aware of this simple fact…..unless you find all surgery and medical intervention against God’s will. Unless you hate a surgeon who would slice open a child’s mouth to correct a cleft palate. Or maybe you just hate anything that you are too lazy or too ignorant to understand.

Now you can go back to being the gender you feel comfortable with. It should only be that easy for those poor kids.

Shame on these doctors for changing the body that God gave us. And shame on all of you who wear glasses that change the eyesight that God gave you. And shame on all of you taking drugs to control diseases that God gave you. And shame on all you ignorant fools who would deny happiness to someone because it offends you.

When will the medical field stop playing god? This is tantamount to using our children as guinea pigs. It is nothing fo this hospital to be proud of. Is it any wonder our country is seeing less and less of God’s blessings we once knew in this land. I pray God will touch that doctor’s heart. I pray the hospital will not permit such detestable experiments on our children. And may God have mercy on us if we permit this atrocity to our children.

BARBARIC!

i think that children dont know what they want or need at a young age ,if they did they would not need parents ,this is whats wrong with kids these days ,people give them to many choices and they dont stay children long enough,it sick people trying to make a buck that hurts our children and prevents us from being parents or atleast good ones

This is a GREAT idea. The sooner you can treat a medical condition the better. These children can finally live a full, happy, healthy and complete life.

I am a 39 year old transgendered woman and I swear I wish I could’ve taken these pills when I was a child. I have a BIRTH DEFECT, it’s that simple. Males and females are 98% the same, and there are more possible birth defects under the sun than we can count. Are people honestly saying that in the 100,000 year history of humans on Earth no one has ever been born with the wrong genitals? I guess the genitals are so sacred that there is no way possible for anything to ever go wrong with them, is that it? If it is then please someone explain hermaphrodites. It has been clinically proven that babies have been born with BOTH genitals. When I was in the womb, I was accidentally given testosterone instead of estrogen. I am now, after 39 miserable horrid years, correcting that defect. It’s just the same as when a blind person has a surgery to allow them to see. Would anyone deny a person a surgery to correct a ciongenital heart condition? Maybe scared little people who are too afraid to think for themselves need to follow the heard, but people like me have a kind of courage that all of you could never even begin to conceive of. Don’t feel sorry for me, and I promise I won’t feel sorry for you. Just get out of my way and let me live my life, because as the bible says, “GOD IS LIGHT AND IN HIM THERE IS NO DARKNESS.” So, as far as I’m concerned God loves me as much as anyone. If I’m wrong it’s between me and God. God created the enire universe without asking for your opinion, so I’m pretty sure he doesn’t need your help in determining where my immortal soul spends eternity. In other words, mind your own business.

This man should lose his license to practice medicine.

Some individuals have claimed transgenderism cannot have a genetic cause, becuase there have been cases, where one twin has been affected, but the other is not. That is not always true, we know many genes have the property of incomplete penetrance. That means one twin could be affected and the other is not.

Contrary to some people’s opinion that children do not know who they are, at an early age, there is overwhelming evidence children do know which gender they belong to by the time they are 3 years old.

As to the effectiveness of treatment to make the children fit in their birth assigned gender, I would suggest people read the NPR series on Transgender Children, comparing the cases of Bradley and Jona. Read Carole, the mother of Bradley, describing his behavior. Remember Carole is in favor of making the child adapt to his birth gender. Bradley seems to be developing into a highly neurotic individual, who may quite possibly attempt suicide. Bradley seems to be unable to accept himself in his birth gender.

Don’t dismiss the possibility of suicide, for these children. There was a recent account from England, where a 10 year-old transgender boy had killed himself by hanging.

The object of Dr. Spack’s treatment is to buy time for therapy. If the puberty blocking drugs are removed, puberty will resume. Children have begun puberty as late as 17, and still retained their puberty.

As for NARTH and McHugh, they are in a fringe minority in regards to the treatment of gay and transgendered individuals. The APA has about 400,000 members. NARTH has less than 1000 members

Many of you are missing the message here. No where in the article does it say that SRS(sex reassignment surgery) is being performed on these children. They are only treating these transgender children with medications that will make their physical transitions easier once they reach an age where they can legally decide for themselved. I only wish I has this choice when I was a child. Instead I must find other ways of erasing what testosterone did to my body. Being Transgender is not a choice, and the therapies and lack of treatments suggested by the Alliance Defense fund and the other conservative groups do a tremendous amount of physiological harm to these children, far more damage that would be caused by the puberty delaying medications being used. It is sad that there are still people out there who do not want to let people live their lives and make their own decisions.

By the way, to those who are posting about the fall of Rome, it was not sexual promiscuity that caused Rome to fall, but rather the gradual introduction of mob rule, letting too many people tell others how to live their lives. If you want to reference history, at least get it right, just as the right wingers out there cannot get their Bible references correct.

“anything goes”…naturally, we will see bizarre events like this because the closet door is wide open (and parading down America’s streets in pride). It will only get worse when tolerated by society* and not nipped in the bud (*or by a miniority who control that society).

Dear God, Please have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Where are the children’s rights groups now?! This is the world gone mad. There was an outcry with Kavorkian, but what about someone defending these kids? Think of all the phases we all went through growing up. The stuff we were attracted to that we should not have been, the things we tried (remember some of the hairstyles that we are glad we are not permanently stuck with) and left behind as a distant memory. This guy should have his medical license revoked and placed into intensive therapy.

In order to have an “intelligent” discussion about this topic, it is important to define some terms which seem to be confused regularly on emotional issues such as this.

Ethics is what we “ought” to do according to our culture as a whole.

Morality is what we “chose” to do as a result of individual or collective beliefs. These beliefs may or may not be based upon ethics. In this day and age it is not uncommon for ethics and morality to clash.

For example:
Our culture says is it wrong to commit murder. That this is an ethic that I think the majority of our culture would agree with. On the other hand, most religious communities say it is wrong to be a practicing homosexual. That is a moral based upon a sub-community of our culture. Not everyone agrees with this, yet people are entitled to their opinion.

So is it moral for children to undergo gender reassignment? That depends on your sub-community of our culture. Some will say it is immoral and others will say it is not. It would appear that much of the passionate dialogue about this topic has its bases in individual or collective morality.

The question that we really need to ask is it ethical for a child to undergo gender reassignment. Sound arguments have been made about the physical damage that can be done to a child by such a therapy. However, from a psychological point of view good arguments have been made about the emotional trauma a child goes through when he or she believes / feels they are the wrong gender.

So how do we look at this topic ethically? Let’s look at what the law says a child cannot do. As several people on this blog have pointed out, children are not allowed to purchase cigarettes, alcohol and firearms until they reach a certain age because our culture says they should be mature enough to make good decisions. Likewise children are not allowed to drive cars, enter into contracts, get married or join the military until they reach a certain age. Why, because once again our culture says until a child reaches a certain age they are not mature enough. If a parent or any other adult where to willingly allow a child to violate any of the restrictions that our culture places on children, he or she would be engaging in unethical behavior and quite possibly be breaking the law.

Now some may argue that as long as the parents and the doctors say it is okay then we don’t have an ethical problem. Well let us look at the law based upon our culture once again. In all states it is illegal to beat your children. Our culture says it is wrong. So beating your children is unethical even if you feel the child needed to be beat. Likewise, in most states it is illegal for children to get genital piercings. You, your child and the piercer may feel it is perfectly okay, but chances are it is against the law and therefore unethical.

So, based upon the very rudimentary restrictions that our culture places on children and those responsible for them, it is reasonable to conclude that based upon the nature of gender reassignment therapy it is unethical for a child to be allowed such a treatment. Once a child reaches the age of consent (normally 18) then the child can make the decision him or herself and it would be ethical. I know some reading this will cringe at the thought of this, but remember ETHICAL is not necessarily the same thing as MORAL.

Now having said that, being a parent of a very confused teenage boy I can symphonize with those that are dealing with a child in such a situation, however, there are other treatment options besides gender reassignment to help children cope.

And now a final word; in science, just because we can do something, it does not ethically follow that we have to do it. Gender reassignment therpy in children fits into this category.

The thing that really bugs me is the fact that all these so called bible bashers and “old school” shrinks haven’t the foggiest idea about what it is to be Transgendered, go through puberty as the gender that isn’t desired, and have to spend incredible amounts of money to make the person look like the other gender after thier bodies have undergone the puberty stage of their birth gender. I am a Transsexuak who has had to live my lifwe secretly, in fear of being exposed and then discriminated against. Dr. Spack is actually one of the nicest doctors that has actually been a help to the transgendered kids in the United States.

All you critics can buzz off, and find someone else to judge, cause that’s just what you are doing.

Okay first of all Dr. Spack is not “cutting off a penis” or “removing the uterus” of these children. He is simply delaying puberty and providing counseling for these children. It is outrageous to compare his work to castrating young boys. You people need to do more research before going on rants about God and judgment day.

i wish i could look upon this problem with the eyes of the ignorant. however for me that is impossible. for those who dont know what being transgendered is like it must be easy to point a finger and shout how profane, disgusting and perverted we are. when in truth all we are doing is trying to live our life the way we want to.
i, along with many other transgendered people, know when we are young that we need to transition, and it takes a very brave person to go through this journey. who are you to say how they feel or what they should do. would you listen to someone elses advice on how to live your life? for example, if i told you that following your god was wrong, would you listen. i would tend to think not, because i am sure you have your reasons for believing in what you believe in. all that can be asked for here is the same courtesy. these children know their bodies a lot better than you or i do. so please dont ridicule them, their supportive parents for, or the doctors for helping to ensure that these kids dont have to go through any more years of living as the wrong gender than they have to.
one more picture needs to be painted here. imagine waking up tomarrow in the body of the opposite gender. would you change it…would you do whatever it took to make the necessary changes to be as close to yourselves again. or imagine if you or your child had been born with a ‘fixable’ disfigurement. wouldnt you do whatever you could to surgically alter the disfigurement. i would take a chance and say you would. but why do that, if it was gods will to disfigure a child and where do you draw the line. this type of body modification is not barbaric at all. rather a necessary alteration to help the person live their life. so please in the future use measure of understanding before casting stones at subjects you have no first hand experience with.
thanks for reading this if you have any further questions, or would like to learn more you can contact your local LGBT center. they can point you in the right direction.

madison
33 year old transgendered male to female

Okay first of all Dr. Spack is not “cutting of penises” or “removing uteruses” of these children. He is simply giving these children hormones to delay puberty and counseling so they have more time to decide what they want to do with their lives. This is not some story of a tomboy or a sensitive boy, these children are going to the extreme and trying to commit suicide. I am happy to see someone helping these children instead of degrading them. It is outrageous to compare this doctors work to castrating young boys. You people need to conduct some research before going on your rants about God and judgment day.

As young kid during the 1940’s I was amazed at the transformation of creating life. At that time I wondered if someday we would attempt to change something that never was. To fit a criteria out of someone’s little mind it was Frankenstein. Now we are doing the same thing going against nature and creating out of our realm of thinking or beliefs. We need to examine the problems of the individual and make constructive determination. Because one a decision has been made there is no turning back, and a future maybe destroyed mentally, because a decison was made for them and they had no impute at the time.

To start off with, sex changes in children and been going on for many years. Some children were we not asked which gender they wanted to be. Back in the 60’s and 70’s it was a choice made by the medical profession and parents. This procedure is damaging to the child, I am not a doctor, nor to I profess to be, but I am a victim of such a procedure that was preformed on me in 1971. I ask the medical profession to first ask the child and second to a chomosone test to see if maybe the child is the other gender.

Unbelievable. Spacks is more an idiot than a Doctor. His license to practice medicine needs to be revoked as soon as possible, before he harms any more children. If he was near me I would be tempted to give him what he deserves. How can the people of Boston allow this guy to walk the streets, let alone practice medicine? More people in Boston need to get involved with this. Take up a collection and hire a lawyer or do something pragmatic.

I first recognized that I wanted/needed to be a woman at the age of 11, when puberty started and that I wanted to take female hormones to become a woman. But because of the brain washing of my fundamentalist Christian parents, I suppressed my desire to be a woman until the age of 39, when I first learned of the transsexual civil rights movement. By then I had developed life threating depression, which was started by inability to date as a male, which was made worse by chronic pain, caused by be