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Transgender kids (not born hermaphrodite) NPR
OP - January 17, 2010, 09:11 PM

http://publicradioredux.com/2009/02/16/transgender-kids

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Boys play with trucks. Girls love the color pink. These cliches have dissolved into stereotypes, but most parents would still put their child into one of two categories: male or female.

For some kids, it's just not that simple. There's a growing transgendered youth movement which encourages children as young as elementary school to live their innate gender.

In this week's episode of This American Life, independent producer Mary Beth Kirchner documents one weekend in the lives of two families grappling with the reality of raising a girl who was born a boy.

Kirchner's documentary is sensitive and honest, allowing the 8-year-olds to speak for themselves. They giggle and gossip, but are far more self-reflective than your average second graders.

You may doubt their parents' motives. You may wonder how their lives will change once puberty hits. But no matter how you feel about the issue, you will leave this piece with a much better understanding of what it's like to grow up transgendered. That's the mark of a true documentary.
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Reply #1 - January 17, 2010, 09:21 PM

Is it because the freemasons made them so?

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Reply #2 - January 17, 2010, 09:31 PM

Its a sign of the end of times, teh anti-Christ is taking over, everybody start praying to Jesus.

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Reply #3 - January 17, 2010, 09:31 PM

It's funny you should ask....but, no. Secret societies worship hermaphrodites, but these kids are not hermaphrodites.
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Reply #4 - January 17, 2010, 09:39 PM

Quote from: Cheetah on January 17, 2010, 09:31 PM
Its a sign of the end of times, teh anti-Christ is taking over, everybody start praying to Jesus.

That too. But seriously, one of the moms was disappointed when the ultrasound said her baby would be a boy. Her husband left when after she kept letting her boy wear dresses and show up to his class in dresses (it was a progressive school), and the boy started insisting he is a girl.

I think the mom has been selfish and also indulgent to their boy. The father couldn't take it and now they are divorced. It's his fault too, and by the time he saw the damage, it was already too far gone.

The little boy says he hates God.
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Reply #5 - January 17, 2010, 09:40 PM

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The little boy says he hates God

Ah well, there's hope for him yet then.

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Reply #6 - January 17, 2010, 09:44 PM
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Reply #7 - January 17, 2010, 11:17 PM

Quote from: Cheetah on January 17, 2010, 09:31 PM
Its a sign of the end of times, teh anti-Christ is taking over, everybody start praying to Jesus.

Uhh yeah. Okay. Look. I'm not against anyone just because of the way they are ok. I mean, I get a lot of shit done in my name that I never even talked about, kinda frustrating. And praying to me won't help a bit.. how do I put this nicely.. well.. okay I'll just say it:

THERE IS NO GOD

Sorry, but yeah.

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Reply #8 - January 17, 2010, 11:22 PM

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Sorry, but yeah.

I believe this one requires an explanation.
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Reply #9 - January 17, 2010, 11:37 PM

Quote from: billy on January 17, 2010, 09:21 PM
Is it because the freemasons made them so?

Indirectly, yes. http://www.thevesselofgod.com/towardtheundivided.html

"The word "hermaphrodite" is a conjunction of Hermes and Aphrodite, a union of the masculine and feminine aspects of God. The symbolism of the Hermaphrodite and its central significance to alchemy is well-known. Its importance to occultists in the guise of Baphomet is likewise well-known."

"The well-known square and compass of Freemasonry is yet another symbol of the conjunction of masculine and feminine principles. The square is used to draw a square, a male symbol. The compass is used to draw a circle, a female symbol. The circle contained with a square thus represents, yet again, the same equilibrium of opposites."

The Fleur-de-Lys is the pre-eminent heraldic emblem of French royalty, and is said to represent a lily, symbolic of Davidic descent. While flowers in general symbolize the female reproductive organ, the lily is even more suggestive of a vulva than most. But unlike most flowers, the lily possesses a phallic rod which thrusts forth from its interior, making it uniquely hermaphroditic in its symbolism.
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Reply #10 - January 18, 2010, 12:13 AM

Please notice how the mouse with a frying pan is a typical combination of male and female symbolism.

If you look, for example, at the Spanish language, you will notice, that the word for mouse "el rat?n" is male while the word for frying pan "la sart?n" is female.

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Reply #11 - January 18, 2010, 01:51 AM

Quote from: NineBerry on January 18, 2010, 12:13 AM
Please notice how the mouse with a frying pan is a typical combination of male and female symbolism.

If you look, for example, at the Spanish language, you will notice, that the word for mouse "el rat?n" is male while the word for frying pan "la sart?n" is female.

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Reply #12 - January 18, 2010, 06:05 AM

Quote from: Shaneequa on January 17, 2010, 09:39 PM
That too. But seriously, one of the moms was disappointed when the ultrasound said her baby would be a boy. Her husband left when after she kept letting her boy wear dresses and show up to his class in dresses (it was a progressive school), and the boy started insisting he is a girl.

I think the mom has been selfish and also indulgent to their boy. The father couldn't take it and now they are divorced. It's his fault too, and by the time he saw the damage, it was already too far gone.

If what you are saying is true, then I would agree she was being selfish, but since none of that is actually mentioned in the linked synopsis, have you seen the entire documentary then?

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Reply #13 - January 18, 2010, 06:20 AM

I heard the entire documentary.
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Reply #14 - January 18, 2010, 06:22 AM

Ok, you wanna link us to that, then?

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Reply #15 - January 18, 2010, 06:51 AM

That's what
I tried to do in the first place. All they have is the redux version, for now, but if we wait a day or two. It just aired today.
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Reply #16 - January 18, 2010, 09:19 AM

Quote from: Q-Man on January 18, 2010, 06:22 AM
Ok, you wanna link us to that, then?

Here it is, but it is a few minutes into the show:

http://podcast.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/374.mp3

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