Poor Wisconsin. Terribly trapped in misguided ignorance and emotion of the past. So many still are. Fear of change. Fear of difference. Fear of science. Unwarranted fear is a curse on evolution.
"ONLY one side are out of their minds.... P - Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton's 'Rainbowland' Banned from Wisconsin Elementary School Concert P - "When will it end?" wrote first-grade teacher Melissa Tempel on Twitter after the Waukesha, Wisconsin school board banned rainbow-themed songs from an upcoming concert P - A Wisconsin first-grade teacher is speaking out after multiple rainbow-themed songs were vetoed from her students' spring concert. "
On reading yours i thought of similar against Disney years ago, so searched the one word, Disney, (for an individual's search i find one word is about the only thing that gives a satisfactory result. A board search is better for more than one word.) Came up with these, instead of the one i was thinking of. Top substitutes. The year is always just a guess, so got lucky this time.
2009, 14 years ago! The first in full:
Window into why girls will be boys and vice versa
Swinging feelings … research has started into gender identity disorder.
Photo: DarrenPateman
Danielle Teutsch February 8, 2009
A SYDNEY researcher has begun the first study of its kind on what are known as gender-variant children - boys who act like girls and girls who act like boys.
Sydney University doctoral student Elizabeth Riley is conducting an online survey, which will take in the views of families, health professionals and transgender people, and is setting up a support group. She has already had about 25 inquiries.
Ms Riley said in the past, professionals working in the field of gender identity disorder would not see patients until they were older teens or adults. But now, a new generation of more enlightened parents were seeking advice on the best way to deal with a young son who has a clear preference for long hair and dresses; or a girl who says she wants a boy's body.
"There's a real unmet need for help," Ms Riley said. "Parents want to do the right thing by their children. There's a fear their child could be teased or bullied and anxiety about what other parents will think."
She said little was known about gender-variant children, except about 80per cent turned out to be gay, with a small number becoming transsexual.
The chairwoman of perinatal and infant psychiatry at the University of Newcastle, Professor Louise Newman, welcomed research on such a poorly understood topic. "There are some children from very early on who have an absolutely clear sense of being trapped in the wrong body," she said. "The youngest I've seen is 2½years old."
There is still debate about whether biological factors - possibly caused by a hormonal imbalance during pregnancy - or psychological factors are responsible, although Professor Newman believed it a combination. "There's likely to be more than one reason," she said.
When Alex was five he decided he wanted to be called Courtney. He would grab the venetian blind cords and put them behind his ears to make "earrings". Now aged nine, he is still as uninterested as ever in sport, cars and all things masculine. He's obsessed with Disney princesses and often sashays around the house in a feather boa and tiara. With his $20 of Christmas money, Alex bought a sparkly purple butterfly necklace and bracelet.
"The stuff that thrills him is uber-feminine. The glitzier, the frillier the better," his mother, Melissa, told The Sun-Herald.
Sarah is the mother of a five-year-old daughter who has gone through phases of wanting to be called "Nathan", loves cricket, utes and football and says she feels like a boy on the inside. She loves clothes featuring Spider-Man - "the more boy-like, the better" - and wears her hair in a closely-cropped style. Lately, she has told her mother she no longer wants to wear a top at the pool so she can be like the boys. "Ever since she could speak, she has wanted to be a boy. She's really clear and sure about it," Sarah said.
Both Sarah and Melissa have spoken of their confusion at how best to parent their children - whether to accept and indulge their desire to behave like the opposite sex, or gently steer them within social norms. They did not want themselves or their children identified because of a desire to protect them. Alex is already ostracised at school.
"It's hard to get clear-cut guidance," Melissa said. "For the first few years I tried buying gender- neutral toys, but it didn't really work. This Christmas, I just abandoned all that and bought what I knew would make him happy - a Barbie bride doll. If you could have seen his eyes, it was just magical."
Damn how good is that. Almost brought a tear. If only we could remember all... Four replies later led to:
100% benz, honestly i thought you would agree with that .. think you said it long ago .. this is a very good article .. am going to post every page ..
November 2008 Atlantic
Since he could speak, Brandon, now 8, has insisted that he was meant to be a girl. This summer, his parents decided to let him grow up as one. His case, and a rising number of others like it, illuminates a heated scientific debate about the nature of gender—and raises troubling questions about whether the limits of child indulgence have stretched too far.
by Hanna Rosin .. A Boy's Life
Brandon Simms at age 5 in a Disney princess costume (Courtesy of the family)
The local newspaper recorded that Brandon Simms was the first millennium baby born in his tiny southern town, at 12:50 a.m. He weighed eight pounds, two ounces and, as his mother, Tina, later wrote to him in his baby book, “had a darlin’ little face that told me right away you were innocent.” Tina saved the white knit hat with the powder-blue ribbon that hospitals routinely give to new baby boys. But after that, the milestones took an unusual turn. As a toddler, Brandon would scour the house for something to drape over his head—a towel, a doily, a moons-and-stars bandanna he’d snatch from his mother’s drawer. “I figure he wanted something that felt like hair,” his mother later guessed. He spoke his first full sentence at a local Italian restaurant: “I like your high heels,” he told a woman in a fancy red dress. At home, he would rip off his clothes as soon as Tina put them on him, and instead try on something from her closet—a purple undershirt, lingerie, shoes. “He ruined all my heels in the sandbox,” she recalls.
At the toy store, Brandon would head straight for the aisles with the Barbies or the pink and purple dollhouses. Tina wouldn’t buy them, instead steering him to neutral toys: puzzles or building blocks or cool neon markers. One weekend, when Brandon was 2½, she took him to visit her 10-year-old cousin. When Brandon took to one of the many dolls in her huge collection—a blonde Barbie in a pink sparkly dress—Tina let him bring it home. He carried it everywhere, “even slept with it, like a teddy bear.”
For his third Christmas, Tina bought Brandon a first-rate Army set—complete with a Kevlar hat, walkie-talkies, and a hand grenade. Both Tina and Brandon’s father had served in the Army, and she thought their son might identify with the toys. A photo from that day shows him wearing a towel around his head, a bandanna around his waist, and a glum expression. The Army set sits unopened at his feet. Tina recalls his joy, by contrast, on a day later that year. One afternoon, while Tina was on the phone, Brandon climbed out of the bathtub. When she found him, he was dancing in front of the mirror with his penis tucked between his legs. “Look, Mom, I’m a girl,” he told her. “Happy as can be,” she recalls.
“Brandon, God made you a boy for a special reason,” she told him before they said prayers one night when he was 5, the first part of a speech she’d prepared. But he cut her off: “God made a mistake,” he said.
Tina had no easy explanation for where Brandon’s behavior came from. Gender roles are not very fluid in their no-stoplight town, where Confederate flags line the main street. Boys ride dirt bikes through the woods starting at age 5; local county fairs feature muscle cars for boys and beauty pageants for girls of all ages. In the Army, Tina operated heavy machinery, but she is no tomboy. When she was younger, she wore long flowing dresses to match her long, wavy blond hair; now she wears it in a cute, Renée Zellweger–style bob. Her husband, Bill (Brandon’s stepfather), lays wood floors and builds houses for a living. At a recent meeting with Brandon’s school principal about how to handle the boy, Bill aptly summed up the town philosophy: “The way I was brought up, a boy’s a boy and a girl’s a girl.”
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