what would you say if your child wanted to change his sex?

I am often appalled at the mindless ,arrogant, and hateful ignorance I see here.

Shame on you who should love and care for your child!

First off this is about gender identity not sexual orientation. This manifests itself predominantly at extreme early stages as one begin to see our sad binary concept world. I knew at 3 that I was a girl and acted that way all of my life in one form or another. The one and only reason to reject this or have a difficult time with it is your own conditioning and not the child's. This is extremely painful to live with which is why nearly 40% of us do not survive. It is you who hate mindlessly quoting anything you can to hide behind. This includes religious intolerance, which is often escalated to violence. To put a child through puberty which is wrong for them is pure torture! Such hate is a sad commentary. I even know of a neo-nazi who is tolerant of us so what does that say about the rest here?

Sharon

Also it takes substantial therapy to progress through many hoops to even get to HRT!

I would be happy with what my child is happy with. It will take a bit to get used to (calling him a her or a her to a him) but that comes with time of course. But I would not shun them or disown them like many parents often do.

Before they would get any medical altering, I would strongly advise that they receive counseling (which often is required) to make sure that is what they want and to sort out any issues they can be facing.

I would require my child to wait til they are an adult to any altering or medications, but if they wanted to experiment with cross dressing, I would support, but strongly put them in counseling so they can develop the skills of how to handle negative remarks from society. The world is cruel and not understanding of ones desires. That is a strong thing they would need to be prepared for.

You should sit down and have a good talk with your child, find out why he/she wants something as drastic as a sex change. As been mentioned before nothing wrong with being homosexual, but it sounds like your child is confused and is making a decision based on a whim.

Personally I don't think it's a good idea for a child to have a sex change, because they might regret it when they grow older and becomes more mature and realizes that wasn't what they really wanted.

My toddlers can do what they sense they must do to be satisfied and that i visit assist them, in spite of if its not person-friendly for me to understand. even if, they are going to ought to pay for the operations themselves while they turn 18. Im not produced from money, and the operations are extremely costly. On acceptable of that, they have extra time to compliment no be counted if this is something they actually think of is well worth doing. in the event that they sense that way at 18 then they could make that govt call and have it achieved. Im basically not likely to sign my call to an eternal determination of that nature. Its completely changing somebody i've got widely used and enjoyed all their lifestyles. i could not carry myself to be an element of reducing them up and rearranging them. i visit settle for it and love them basically the comparable in the event that they bypass with the aid of with it, yet I wont help them do it. with a bit of luck they might understand.

We had custody of two of my cousin's children last year. Matthew is 6 and insists on wearing girls clothes and being called Madeline. We were really worried at first but in no time, he was just pretty little Maddy. He knows that he has to wear his boys clothes when he goes out.

If one of my own children decides they want to change sex, they can wait until they're 30.

I think in most cases like this, you notice that they feel uncomfortable with their gender around the age of puberty.. maybe even younger, maybe even older..

Once again i'd be a bit shocked at first, I'd possibly ask them why they felt that way..but if they feel that they wanted to change their sex then that is ultimately their choice. I'd be supportive of them no matter what their decision was..as they are my child!

I would do my best to accept it and be okay with it. I would not allow the surgery as a child but once they are adults and able to make their own decision I would be ok with it.

Yes, I would be okay with it. My only rules about it would be they have to pay for it themselves (the surgeries) and be over 18. My reason for number 1 is if I can't afford to pay for my child's college, I won't pay for unneeded plastic surgery. Rule number 2 is that anything this life changing shouldn't be taken lightly and there should be a lot of hard thinking on it.

The reason I'd be okay with it is because you have one life, why would any parent want their child uncomfortable in their own skin? Life isn't worth living if you're constantly sad about the person you are, so if you can change it to make yourself happy, why not?

The kid is expressing his/her own personality if they want to get a sex change... It may not be natural in any way but if that's what they really wanna do then who are you to stop them? I wouldn't care if I had kids that wanted to get a sex change... I would probably say "Good for you."

whoa big question.from what i have seen many children nowadays want to do that because they are either heart broken or because of their environment.i have a friend who is a guy and wants to be a girl because of his parents.so i would advice to ask the kid what exactly is in his mind.