Message from @James
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The hell. Does anyone know any more about this ^
No but it looks insane if it's accurate
Whether it's accurate or not idk but it's definitely insane the way it's portrayed... If I can find out more about it and it is, then it wouldn't be the first thing that surprised me about how backwards the world can be
The article keeps using the dichotomy of what the child does when he's with Mom or what he does when he's with Dad. Nobody has independently talked to the child on their own. Or observed him in a neutral environ
Environment
Even if that's true, the courts are telling the father things like he can't choosevhis child's clothes for him, while the mother's taken him to some specialist and worked with them to diagnose him with gender disphoria based on her word
And I don't think it is true
"Eyewitness accounts from friends corroborate dad’s observations of James preferring to be a boy. Bill Lovell, the senior pastor of Christ Church Carrollton, wrote: “Based on the three occasions I’ve spent time with him, I’d say he acts and looks unmistakably like a healthy six-year-old boy. … I am praying for James, an average six-year-old boy, a sweet-natured, intelligent, lovable and at this point particularly vulnerable young man, caught up in a titanic clash of worldviews.”
Ellen Grigsby shared in an email her observations after meeting James and his fraternal twin brother for the first time: “They were both ‘all boy’ and were having a great time. Both boys were absolutely dressed as boys and behaving as boys.”
Sarah Scott is a family friend and mother of three boys who frequently play with James and his brother. She and her husband are sensitive to allowing James to lead the way in gender choices such as names, pronouns, and clothing. I asked her the obvious question: “How do you know James does not want to be a girl?” Sarah responded in an email with several examples she’s seen of James’ desire to remain a boy:
So depending on the situation I could see the use of the laws. Protecting a real transgender child from an abusive parent.
The issue comes from the family court bias against him as a father and nobody is willing to assess whether the mother is being vindictive
This is why a 3rd party evaluation should be the first go to
Without it is an explicit example of taking the mother's side over there father with no evidence other than what the mother has presented.
The issue being is I've seen that happen
I don't even get why children as young as six, *six* for the love of God are being diagnosed with gender disphoria. I mean wtf? And the courts and everyone else just goes along with it, ignoring the father for what reason? Because he exists? Would they do the same if he wasn't involved in the child's life at all? This story needs more publicity
Well the article makes it quite clear that there are strict criteria to diagnose gender dysphoria.
The problem here is the fact that there is conflicting evidence. Not whether or not the diagnoses exists in a wider context.
This is just completely ignoring the father which is A HUGE issue
You can't determine for yourself at 6 years old what gender you belong as
You literally can't
Like when I was that age, I jokingly wore my blanket as a dress and said I was a pretty girl
It was a big joke
God knows what would have happened to me if I was born today
I think it's stronger than that
Like when you reach sexual maturity, maybe
But for Christ sakes, the kid's hormones haven't even kicked in yet
Like at least wait until 12-13
That's the point. Good or bad
And the mother plans to get him chemically castrated, he won't properly even reach sexual maturity.. and petitioned the court to have the father pay for all this much needed "therapy*"
*read: screwing your child up one session at a time
It honestly just makes me sick
Like, words can't really describe exactly how this story makes me feel
There's some basic wording you can use to write to local officials regarding this if you are in the US
@Jango Harrison Support is a great idea. I don't know why I didn't think of it because nits one of the three major things every good forum has.
@Rai Amen to that. This is her deciding to 'customise' her son. Either to hurt dad or get leverage or just because she wanted a girl and got a boy.
Truly. And the fact it's all court sanctioned and nobody that is in charge bats an eye.
Urgh. Few things in the world make me want to strangle people like a court screwing up some child's entire life. I don't rate his survival chances.
<#517296790098280448> channel made, btw
Another one for the collection.
Eye roll*
Is there any word on what the "fix" might be?
This is the problem in grouping entire demographics together in this kind of way, it can’t just let people live and let live, if your goal is the whole with no vision of the individuals, then there is something wrong, some things are just better to live and let live
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