Well if I have a child with a brain disorder I'd treat it. for example if my child had autism, which is also a brain disorder I'd try everything I could to treat her . If my my child had a eating disorder (which is a brain disorder) I 'd treat it even if she felt happier eating food. I wouldn't let my child eat until she dies just because it makes her happier. when the brain sends a wrong messages to our body  we will try to fix it whatever it is the message about. If the Brain sends a wrong message: Eat more you are not full enough after you have eaten more than enough, it's a wrong message and you'll treat it. If my child had dyslexia I'd treat it. If my child had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) I would treat it........Why when the brain sends a wrong message: "you're a girl even that you are in  a boy's body" people say it's normal it doesn't need treatment, we need to accept it . It's interesting  when it's about sex everything is normal and OK. Why not treat it like you would treat Any other brain disorder? I think I would never stop trying to find a cure  or a treatment if i had a child with any type of brain disorder or any other disease.

Hi Toni,
I watched the episode , Little Boy Lost,on Foxtel, Sydney, Australia, yesterday.
I had the very distinct impression you felt hijacked? That you were of the opinion that Dr Phil was going to discuss YOUR reaction and grief to 'losing" your son?
Instead of which ,the program turned into a debate about Transgenderism (for program ratings?) Then you were confronted with "experts" who drove you nuts because you were NOT there to discuss the decision itself,only its impact on you.
Am I right?
I have some comprehension of where you are at because I have 1 son who is homosexual and his younger brother ,who was autistic.(Also 3 daughters who are heterosexual and Neurotypical normal).
I understand the grief of "losing a son" while he is still alive. Compared to autism , being "gay" is a piece of cake ,by the way.
I have now recovered my son using DAN /Pfeiffer protocols . These are the same as Jenny McCarthy used for her son. My son now has friends, hobbies, will find employment and probably marry (well, as much chance as others!)
Yet, I have to sit and hear "experts" pontificate about "biological" being "untested, unproven" etc ......with THOUSANDS of recovered kids staring them in the face. I totally understand your frustration that ,just because 'they' have a university qualification , the parent is considered LESS expert than them!!!
As Karyn Seroussi (""Unravelling The Mystery of PDD and Autism") "I've found that an open minded parent can learn more in 6 months than a closed minded professional can learn in 20 years."
Trust your "instincts", intelligence-you earnt it the hard way, not as a mere outside observer!
Good lukh. God Bless
kerrie

Toni, you are SO right !

this nicolosi fella is downright evil ! look at the angry expression in his face when he says "we are loving". he's accusing another human being of being emotional, as if this were WRONG !!.  he's raping childrens minds!!

God loves you and your chil Toni, whether it's a he or she.

In order to help instill confidence and support to Dr. Nicolosi and his GID altering program for Transgender children, I have the following suggestions to Dr. Nicolosi. 1. In that Dr. Nicolosi is sure of his convictions that children born with GID are making a mindful choice in wanting to live differently than their anatomical sex would mandate, and not trying to live this way because of some type of birth defect,  Dr. Nicolosi should simply choose to live as a Transgendered person for one year and fully live every minute of each day during this year with the same feelings, thoughts, experiences and desires of someone that isTransgendered. 2. As Dr. Nicolosi would be a Transgendered adult,  living this year  would be easy for him as he would not have the usual restrictions that would be directed by parents towards a transgendered child. 3. At the end of this year, haveing fully lived in every way, every second of every day the life of a Transgered person having to deal with the mental feelings and thoughts of someone Transgendered, Dr. Nicolosi could then choose to change back to his 'normal', non-transgendered self. 4. Surely this experience would give Dr. Nicolosi much much more accurate insight and experience in the lives of Transgendered people and also give Dr. Nicolosi the credibility that he so tirelessly deserves.

There are two 'doctors' sitting on the Dr.Phil stage who make this world a worse place to live in. They claim that they 'care' about children, yet they are denying these children of their true gender identities. Why should two men who had the intelect to complete medical school be credible only on this basis? They are simply homophobic and are trying to deny science. These children are confused because of morons like this who claim to be 'experts' but with experience does not and should not come 'expert' status! SCIENCE is not behind them and neither should anybody else.
Gender identity is NOT a choice, it is pre-natal and cannot be 'cured' only REPRESSED. The parents who embrace their child's true gender identites may have saved their child's life. To you, congratulations and keep it up despite what these idiots try to tell you.
To the 'experts' who preach the ill ways of the gender confused or homosexual child, go to hell. Do not use your qualifications to PREACH your own OPINIONs on gender and homosexuality.

I would like to present my view on this topic, and I believe everone has the right to give their opinion whether you agree with it or not. I can understand  the mother of this boy is upset, it has turned her life upside down. Here is where my experience comes from. I am a woman, but was abandoned by my mother at aged 5 to be raised with my brother by my father. With my father being my major parental influence in my life, I was a bit of a tom boy. I even taught myself how to pee like a boy. I wanted to dress like a boy and was always taking my brothers clothes. I never really wore a dress, and loved getting dirty. It was never really discussed, and I was sent to school in the school dress etc. Aside from school clothes, I started wearing dresses at around age 18, and realise I sort of have to work at enjoying being a woman, and I am glad I am. My husband thinks I am beautiful. Even though I was a real tomboy, and never felt girly, I didn't speak about it, and it didn't go beyond that. I still struggle to this day, feeling feminine, and beautiful, but realise that I am a woman, and I am now glad how my life has turned out. I have had children and I am married. I think the parents are looking too deeply too quickly. I think you need to guide your children gently. A 3 year old can't make important life decisions, thats why we have parents. I also believe some children have that kind of personality that can become fixated on a particular topic. I feel sad for the turmoil these children go through, whatever they decide to do with their gender. I don't think this should be an issue of deciding what gender you want to be at 4 years old. Let your children play, and enjoy being a kid, whether that is with dolls or dirt, there should be a balance and it will work itself out.

Not that I had a problem with Dr. Phil allowing these people to voice their opinions or anything. I just find them incredibly offensive.

Dr. James Dobson heads Focus on the Family - In his book, Bringing Up Boys, Dobson claims that the gay rights agenda is "the biggest threat to your children". He claims that gays have an agenda to molest children.

I mean, c'mon! You can't draw parallels between pedophilia and homosexuality - pedophilia is a paraphilia and homosexuality is a sexual orientation. That difference may seem arbitrary, but it does outline a very distinct difference (indeed, 98% of pedophiles are straight). What I mean is that with pedophilia, the motive is not to practice consensual love. A child cannot give informed consent. That is why children are the focus of the pedophile - they can be easily controlled, and the pedophile does not have the ability to form meaningful and fullfilling relationships with people their own age. Many pedophiles are blind to gender, in that they don't really care about anything other than that it is a child. A pedophile that prefers the same sex is a homosexual pedophile, while a pedophile that prefers the opposite sex is a heterosexual pedophile. Thus, the requirements for being a pedophile aren't equal to that of a homosexual. The two have very different motives.

That's quite the impressive post, and a delight to read.  I hope those who don't understand or currently choose not to understand those with struggles with gender give you a fair hearing--I think it's education about it that will save the day in the end.

 
Dear Dr. Phil, Robin, Guests and staff,
Thank you for educating the viewers about this subject.  Regrettably, I missed the airing of the previous show which you wisely recapped.  This is obviously a very sensitive topic.  In my experience our society's collective confusion about gender expression is the crux of many conflicts in our global cultures.  Gender equality, the roles of men and women, many marriage issues, sexual expectations, on and on.  I believe homophobia is at its apex, the discomfort with the seemingly crossed gender expression of homosexuals. Gay men, the effeminate ones, get beat up even killed and butch lesbians are ridiculed. Ironically, the fems are currently sheik and exemplify erotic desire.  Such as Katy Perry. Notice how upset some one gets when you “sir” a women and “ma'am” a man.   And heaven help the androgynous person (we saw how eager the Christians are to “fix it”).  Remember the Julia Sweeney character “Pat” from SNL?   People were so uncomfortable with – that person.  When a baby is born, what is the first question?  Is it a boy or a girl.  Why?  When I ask adults the majority answer, “habit.”   They are not sure of the genesis of the habit.   When I ask kids, they constantly answer less self consciously, “.. so you know how to treat it.”  I'll encourage them to elaborate, “... you have to be more careful with girls, and give 'm pink stuff, … boys like to be tickled...”.  It's very interesting.  I feel like Art Linkletter.

According to Dr. Nicolosi, 75 percent of people overly attached to their mother will be homosexual, or bisexual or transgendered.  That leaves 25% born natural heterosexual.  By my math that dives us up into even fouths, with 25% born natural homosexual, 25% born natural bisexual and the remaining 25% born natural transgendered.  I don't see much room for variation if one is, say, only casually acquainted with Mum.  Do we rollover to a different quarter category, like the Lotto, when there is no winner.  The emphasis being on no winners with the 'well intended's” theory.

I appreciate the way you wrapped up the show Dr. Phill, siting down with Dr. Siegel to talk about Toni’s situation.  I am grateful that you acknowledged the very real loss, to various degrees, for all parents.  Particularly poignant was your observations that this child is, still with her, and I concur, Toni's child is going to be more of herself.  Toni, trust your 'mother's intuition', you know your child.  Well done Dr. Phil for arranging for professional support for the family.  I have been surprised at the amount of criticism of you about your handling of the show, and subject matter.  As a transsexed man, I sincerely compliment you for your tact in a very volatile arena and for striking a balance of perspectives while disseminating information on a complex topic.  I do think a less confrontational forum would be more productive, informative and less confusing.

I also thank all your guest, specifically Toni.  I understand what she was intending, to educate the viewers, not defend her choice as a parent.  I too got angry at the 'well intended' self proclaimed healers.  It's infuriating when they aren't even listening!  We heard you Toni.  You are a tenacious protector of your child's well being.  Dr. Siegel and Dr. Angello were well spoken and exemplary advocates.  Dr. Cwynar and Dr. Olson had very useful information to contribute.  I have also recommended trans individuals and parents of trans children wait through puberty.  Also, I urge discretion to be employed to maintain the the families wellbeing and safety.  It is a case by case situation that needs to dealt with as a support team for the patient.  The hormones are very powerful. I am convinced we woefully under prepare males in our society.  Girls get the talk early on about the body changes and some about emotional effects of estrogen.  More could be understood and done in this area. But every T-man I've talked to are surprised by the effects of the influx of testosterone comparable to that of an adolescent male.  Hard core vegetarian, animal activists start to crave red meat, rare, bleeding.  We are disgusted with our almost constraint subconscious objectification of women.  The libido is seemingly insatiable, which is so frustrating when one has such a teeny weeny or as the majority of you would call it a clitoris.  Talk to your children in an age appropriate way about what to expect and what you expect in their healthy sexual behavior.  Get information and help with wording.  Talk to your doctors, the school nurse, your faith community leaders, call Planned Parenthood.  Bring someone whom you trust in and throw a sleep over.  Show a cool, not lame movie, which you preview.  Then let them talk and ask questions.  Address sex and gender differences.  Please be respectful even if you disagree or disprove of non-traditional sexual and gender expression.  Follow up on going through adulthood.  Love them enough to be informed.

If the 'well intendeds' have success without harming the child fine.  But the 'well intended' self proclaimed, healers are oblivious to how divisive their rhetoric is.  I don't fit their explanation either.  As Toni implied, been there, done that.  I was a trans-sexed child, raised in a Christian home.  I am the oldest, with twin sisters three years my junior.  One was a tom-girl (tom-boy is redundant) who grew out of it and the youngest twin was a girlly-girl like our mother.  We are all heterosexual.  My father was at work, 70 hours per week running his hospital.  He was absent during the week, like most of the dads on our block, but interacted with us on weekends.  We had Tonka trucks and Ballet Tutus.  My sisters and girl neighbors played with Barbies while I built a replica “Dream House”.  But I am the only one in the neighborhood that changed sex. Hummmm! I know thousands of trans men and women of such divers demographics.   We are all combinations of religions, races, cultures, birth order, family configurations.  Surveys done by real professionals say they can not find a common denominator among us.  The only factor of significance is that on average we have a higher percentage than the general population of higher learning degrees, many have multiple masters.  (Academia is a great distraction.)  Also, our parents, both mother and father, obtained master's level and higher educations.  So, we are really smart. This could impart higher intelligence and better coping skills to the trans-child which survived the dark ages of transology. 

As far back as I can remember, I spent most nights on my knees begging God to fix me. I cried and banged my head against the walls, dressers and bed.  Many times I'd wake on the floor, the side of the mattress still wet from my tears.  I am sure Glenn Stanton, of Focus on the Family, and psychologist Dr. Joseph Nicolosi have good, kind and loving intension.  They just don't realize they are encouraging spiritual, physical, psychological and emotional abuse of trans and gay persons.  What I know and am certain Toni, as a trans-child's parent and Doctors Dan Siegel and Michele Angello know is that this as a life and death situation for the trans-person.  Toni's child is not willful or pulling some power play. She means being this way is unbearable. And it is.  When I disclosed to my wife-to-be's mother. (Yes, I was legally married to a genetic female in 1998. And Toni, your child can find a loving partner too. They could even have children born of your child's DNA if you work with doctors and plan well.) My mother-in-law-to-be was so distraught. She had gotten to know me and care about me over two years time.  Anticipating her primary concern I asked, “Are you afraid I will have the surgery and then later realize I am living in the wrong body? Then have to live out my life being misunderstood, miserable, because there is nothing worse that you can think of than being in the wrong body?” “YES!”, She implore , “Yes, that would be hell, a nightmare! I don't want that for you or anyone!” I calmly responded, “Thank you for understanding, because that has been the day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute reality of my life for thirty years. It is hell on earth. I am miserable to the point of not wanting to go on. Now do you get it?”  And we all wept.  It was so sad.  I was pretty, with a knock out figure.  I was a mother, jeopardizing future contact with my kids for 10 years to indefinitely. I  had a career, which trans people usually have to forfeit.  I gave it all up to be able to exist in my body!  Who's parenting is so messed up as to make an otherwise balanced person surgically alter their sex identity?  Hemingway's mother put him in a dress and told him he was a girl. He rebelled. The 'well intended' are so wrong.  You can't make someone transsexed! Nor can you unmake them.

There is now enough statistical data about us, trans-sexed persons, to refute the claims of the “well intending healers”.  If anything the 'well intended' are making the situation for trans individuals, their families and the collective culture worse for everyone.  They are propagating a spirit of hate and fear and deny that effect.  We are not give a spirit of fear, rather empowered to Love.  I have yet to hear of any 'Exodus International' type, de-gaying, de-transing organization present documentation to backup their claims of overwhelming success or any success; in the contrast to the fulfilling lives that we, post gender-transitioned persons achieve via the 'Harry Benjamin Standard Periodical'.  They fall back on the “it's private” excuse. Real practitioners know the proper professional procedures for collecting anonymous empirical evidence.  I am part of several studies. Talk to the Ingersoll Gender Identity Center of Seattle, F to M International, the Seahorse Clinic in Palo Alto, Stanford University Gender Studies, Dr. Diamond of Hawaii University, the list goes on and on. In addition to my personal life experience I've heard thousands of other heart wrenching stories.  We are happy with our choice to transition. In fifty years I've only heard of three with regrets.  And they didn't follow standard medical procedures.  They jumped to a quick fix because parents died and the external locust of control was gone.  The cork was out of the bottle. 

Toni is doing the best thing for her child.  If the pictures came down at the trans girls request than I commend Toni for being so loving and sensitive to her child's needs. I believe that like myself, some day her child will want to revisit those photos with fond nostalgia and appreciate all the more the life journey the two of them and the extended family made together.  If Toni took them down as a way to avoid snooper's questions that's good too.  It is safest for them both at this time.  I had to teach my gregarious youngest child in an age appropriate way that introducing ones self as, “I'm Kyle and my Mom's a man, bet you don't have one of those!” is private and not safe.  Also, best not to call me Mom in the men's room.  They both, now in their 20's, still call me Mom, because I am and always will be.  This summer, at his Wedding in Houston Texas, it was very funny, but still dangerous! I am a man and I gave birth, twice.  There are dozens of us! And you can't tell who we are with our pants on. 

Statistically, the harsh alternative is that the repressed trans-child like the homosexual, will run away and become a sexworker on the streets and eventually die by their own hand or another's. If by chance they make it to adulthood and keep trying to be “normal”, and “a natural heterosexual”. It becomes a bigger nightmare.  Lives are lost and compromised.  Marriages fail repeatedly.  Spouses are heartbroken.  Parents agonize and blame themselves anyway.  Children are subjected to spiritual abuses over their queer parent's 'lifestyle'.  My sons anguished through their formative years about my “going to hell”, as they were told by 'caring Christian' family members(who are regular 'Focus on the Family' listeners); in spite of my decades of personal profession of the same Salvation as their father's, because I dressed like a man, cut my hair short (similar to Laura Bush's), and looked into corrective surgery.  I brought their Dad into the church where he got 'born again'!  I don't lead anyone to the Lord, the Holy Spirit does. I just drive'm to church.  So, then we have a second generation of children pleading with God to change me.  Now my daughter in-law has been turned against me, even though she says, “it doesn't seam right”, because I'm so much nicer than the 'Christian' step-mother in-law who convinced her it is a sin to like me. Is this loving?  What gender was Jesus.  He wore a long robe and hair down to his waist. In the 1960's men were teased for emulating the look.  Woman stopped shaving the hair God gave them off their legs and armpits. Isn't that the sign of a good Christian wife?  I know a genetic female that grows a natural full beard and gets grief for not removing it.  Deal with the lumber yard in your own garage before you come suggesting I sweep the saw dust out of mine.  Maybe I'm gonna have a Hoe-down!  (That's means a country and western dance.  It's not something perverse.) 

You can word the prayer any way you can think of and I promise you, I and others have said it sincerely, repeatedly, with fasting...  A thorn in my flesh to endure like Paul you say, here's your thorn.  God made me trans-sexed.  It is a birth defect like a cleft palate.  I had it fixed.  Deal with it.  I'm praying for you.  “Open your heart and discern in the Spirit what you can not comprehend in your flesh.  Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. What is God trying to teach each of us about the human experience and the nature of God through this issue?”  

My typical modus operandi is to educated others about trans-genderisum with a large side order of humor.  I've refrained because, like Toni, I am very upset and don't want to detract from the life and death seriousness of this topic.  Literally, the suicide rate is believed to be the highest in this demographic.  This accounts for the supposed number of individuals that don't live out their lives being trans.  Those of us that don't succumb to a tragic teen suicide give in to the immense social pressers to conform. 'Social norms' are easier on the trans-boys or tom-girls who become “the athletic type women” or just lesbians.  Nelly-boys, sissy, or trans-girls get the **** (trans) beat out of them.  [Try to imagine your 12 year old daughter looking just like a boy. But, everything about her internally is feminine, her psyche, emotions, personality, a girly-girl, but outwardly anatomically male, loathing the 'thing' that we prize so much in our culture.  Being a trans-girl, in the boy's team locker-room. (S)he feels out of place, ashamed, awkward, and self conscious.  Your feminine 'son' is being picked on by her male team mates with encouraged peer presser to conform to the male norm.  On the other hand being a trans-boy in the girl's locker room was not so bad.]  So we trannies do, until we can't, then, another suicide for no apparent reason.  Risky, extreme sports, is a lethal behavior often used by those struggling with their sex and gender conflicts to cover a trans death wish.  Military service is very popular and honorable form of self destruction.  I know so many special ops and highly decorated trannies that survived their voluntary service.  Drug use, including abusing alcohol to numb the overwhelming pain is common and often subconsciously, deadly.  Then there are the people who take it upon themselves to eliminate the world of us freaks.  Think Toni is being paranoid, over protective, enmeshed?  I've been told to my face that I and my kind would be dead if the individual could get away with it. This was in Texas.  There had been eight confirmed homicides of know homosexual/transgendereds in the six months I was there.  Then Matthew Shepperd was murdered and people started to think, care more and take action.  Violence against us happens everyday.  Please talk to your children.  Call their school. Find out what the policy is toward trans students and trans parents.  Demand a zero tolerance of abuse. 

I am trans-sexed, my term, derived from Latin origin meaning across or opposite sexed: born with one sex identity and identifying as the opposite.  My anatomically correct sex identity at birth was female, because I had and inny, not an outty.  So I was socialized feminine.  I always felt intuitively male, even before I had the words for it.  I first contemplated suicide at four.  My mother intervened. Thirty years later, when I came out to her as a trans-man she clearly recalled the event, once she stopped pleading with me to “just be a lesbian”. (This is where I employee humor and suggest if you are struggling with your parents understanding that your gay, tell them you want a sex-change. Gay or lesbian sounds more acceptable after that.)   

I believe the term transsexual is a misnomer.  My sexuality is heterosexual because I am a man who is attracted to and only is sexually active with females.  And while I was presenting as a women I was only involved with males because I could only conceive of a male to female relationship.  I didn't know what “gay” was until I was sixteen.  At that point I was bewildered, asking all the dumb questions, like, what do they do together?  Now, I get it conceptually, but it still doesn't arouse me or make sense. I get board watching the 'L Word'.  I was booed out of the first girl on girl film I watched because I unwittingly asked, “Where's the guy?”  (Two girls with a man, that I get.)  “There is no guy, that's the point.”  “I asked my question again, having already been told,  “What are they going to do together?”  Ten years later I found out there are homosexual trans-people.  Ya, that still surprised me!  “Let me understand, you were a lesbian and now a trans-man with other men, your gay?”  Emphatically, “Yes!”  (At this point some of you are asking the same, "... how does this trans-man have sex?" question.   Very well, so I've been told,  thank you. I am a guy, sorry."  

Transology 101 - Sex identity is biological, and I believe humans are male-sexed, female-sexed or trans-sexed men or trans-sexed women or inter-sexed (this is a whole nother, different, but related show that really needs to be done Dr. Phil).  Gender identity is social, and a spectrum in constant flux with its polarities at masculine and feminine which are defined by the combined cultural factors of any given time in history and geographic location.  (We need a lot more boxes to check on our drivers license applications.)  Sexuality is defined in relation to an individual's gender identity as compared to that of the individual(s) [Plural, dare I go here. The 'Focus on the Family' crowd are going to blow a gasket.] which they [singular or plural] are sexually attracted to.  (The 'parts' don't have to fit together the way Dr. Dobson thinks they should. News Flash - straight people engage in sex acts that aren't exclusively, the missionary position, penis to vagina intercourse.  Most of them are defined as 'sodomy' by Justinian I in 535 AD. Oh, those naughty straight perverts, being an abomination, like the rest of us shrimp eaters.)  So, if one is attracted to the opposite of their own sex they are heterosexual.  If one is attracted to the same of their own sex they are homosexual.  (By the same application of the Latin root of the word 'trans' mining crossed to 'sexual', the argument could be made that this means: the attraction to the opposite sex; ergo, 'straights' are transsexual.  As in, “The unnamed Doctor can act 'strait/transsexual', but he is still a repressed homosexual.  He is “trans-acting” on the Dr. Phil Show.”)  Bi-sexuals are able to switch comfortable between a male and female sexed partner, are proficient at both, have twice the options yet somehow only half as much rejection.

Other terms I created, circa 1989 – Transology: the study of trans gender issues. 

GID, Gender Identity Dysphoria: I know my gender, everyone else is confused/dysphoric about it. 

Trans-man: commonly referred to as a female to male (F2M), my term deemphasizes the former sex identity of the individual who feels incongruent with their anatomical birth sex of female. 

Trans-boy: juvenile of the proceeding. 

Trans-women: commonly referred to as a male to female (M2F), my term deemphasizes the former sex identity of the individual who feels incongruent with their anatomical birth sex of male. 

Trans-girl: juvenile of the proceeding. 

Trans-parent: is this a trans-person who is a parent, man-mother or woman-father, or should that be mother-man and father-woman?  You know, like sea horses.  Or, is a transparent the parent of a person that is trans-sexed?  (I'm still working on that one.) 

Transsexual: attraction to the person across from you or is it a person of the opposite sex or anyone on the opposite side of the bar from you. 

Addadicktome (my personal favorite): think this is self explanatory, the corrective surgery for a trans-man. 

Stereo sexual: this is one who prefers to have sex with two other persons, like the Ikki Twins, a participant of managea toi.  The more advanced Theatrical Surround Sexual: like stereo sexual but is mplified and includes a base, woofer and tweeter often it gets confused with -  

Cirque Du Sexole' which is not about the number of participants, rather the mental acrobatics a trans person does in between their ears in order to survive what is going on between their legs in a pre-transition socially acceptable heterosexual relationship. 

Ambigendered: like ambidextrous, able to switch comfortable between a masculine and feminine gendered identity, proficient at both. 

Pangendered: they run the gambit of the gender spectrum, going from manly-man to sissy-boy to androgyny to dipstick lesbian, to Boy George then Miss Congeniality and back again.  It's exhausting and the closet space required is daunting.  Omni gendered: of all and any gender at once, this would be God and only God, has nothing to do with Martha, in other words “God is It!” 

Seriously, I speak publicly about gender identity issues.  This is an opportunity to enlighten people.  I am grateful for your kind interest.  It is a much misunderstood and sensationalized birth defect.   I welcome any questions anyone might have.

tertiushand -- First, FotF has NO credibility in the legitimate psychological community -- none, zilch, zero! Their tactics is to try and change the behaviour, which is like dying your hair or wearing coloured contact lenses. All that does is disguise what's deep inside.

Second -- Read up on the David Reimer case (I posted links earlier in the thread). They tried turning a boy into a girl and it failedmiserably! This is a classic example of why forced gender changes don't work!