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Dr. Eowyn posted: "Think back to when you were 6 years old . . . . At a
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self-awareness that you were a boy? Did you -- a female reader of FOTM --
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<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/> Crossdressing
summer camps for confused
boys<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/crossdressing-summer-camps-for-confused-boys/>
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Think back to when you were 6 years old . . . .
At a 6-year-old, did you -- a male reader of FOTM -- have a clear and
definite self-awareness that you were a boy? Did you -- a female reader of
FOTM -- have a clear and definite self-awareness that you were a girl?
I can honestly say I didn't. At six, I had just completed 2 years of
kindergarten and starting first grade. I don't think I even knew what the
differences between boys and girls were.
But we are to believe that children as young as six today already
*know*they're transgender (aka gender dysphoria)! -- that they really
are the
opposite sex trapped in the "wrong" body.
To top it off, some of those preternaturally precocious 6-year-old
transgenders actually go to a cross-dressing summer camp -- but boys only!
Happily, feminists need not bristle. There's always transgendered Girl
Scouts!<http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/transgendered-girl-scouts-you-better-believe-it>
[image: crossdressing
camp]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/crossdressing-camp.jpg>
*Transvestite boys frolicking in summer camp. Photo by Lindsay
Morris<http://lindsaymorris.viewbook.com/you-are-you>
.*
Kirsten Andersen reports for
LifeSiteNews<http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/crossdressing-camp-for-boys-as-young-as-six-draws-criticism-from-christian>,
July 17, 2013:
Young boys preening in front of mirrors putting on makeup, picking flowers
in skirts, and prancing in heels and dresses at a talent show: all these
are depicted in controversial photoessay, featured on *Slate* this week,
documenting *an annual summer camp for gender confused boys.* The images
are drawing praise from gay activists, and criticisms from pro-family
leaders.
For the last three years, *photographer Lindsay Morris* has attended the
four-day-long camp for “gender variant” boys from 6 to 16 and their
families *held in an undisclosed location in New England.* Morris refers
to the camp by the pseudonym “Camp ‘You Are You,’” although her description
of the camp closely matches the one given on the
website<http://www.camparanutiq.org/dates-and-rates.html>for Camp
Aranu’tiq <http://www.camparanutiq.org/about-camp-aranutiq.html> for
"transgender" boys, which was featured last year in the *Boston
Globe*<http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/09/01/camp-for-transgender-kids-builds-trust/7ziUvJtS6gAjKnSAiycKYJ/story.html>,
and which makes campers and visitors sign a confidentiality agreement.
According to the *Globe*, it is the only camp of its kind in America.
Morris, who recently published the
photoessay<http://lindsaymorris.viewbook.com/you-are-you>on her
website, told
*Slate*<http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/07/15/_you_are_you_looks_at_a_gender_nonconforming_camp_for_boys_photos.html>that
the camp is aimed at “parents who don’t have a gender-confirming
3-year-old who wants to wear high heels and prefers to go down the pink
aisle in K-Mart and not that nasty dark boys’ aisle.”
She said that the fashion show was one of the highlights of the camp, and
something that many boys and their families worked to prepare for all
year. “Some … create their own gowns with their mothers or friends of the
family,” Morris said. “The focus and enthusiasm is really pretty
incredible.”
On her own website <http://lindsaymorris.viewbook.com/you-are-you>, Morris
describes the camp as “a temporary safe haven where gender-variant boys can
freely express their interpretations of femininity alongside their parents
and siblings.” Adds Morris, “Here, they can be true to their inner nature
without feeling the need to look over their shoulders.”
On the website <http://www.camparanutiq.org/dates-and-rates.html> for Camp
Aranu’tiq, a parent testimonial offers similar praise, claiming the camp
gave her son “the BEST experience” of his life.
“[S]he [sic] grew into a confident and more outgoing girl during her [sic]
time there!!” the anonymous parent raved, adding that her son has “been
empowered through the validation and acceptance she [sic] received at camp.”
But *senior fellow for Policy Studies at the Family Research Council *in
Washington D.C., told the *Christian
Post*<http://www.christianpost.com/news/transgender-boys-camp-unnatural-restrictive-say-christian-leaders-100236/>that
he fears
*well-meaning parents may be doing more harm than good by bringing their
boys into an environment that reinforces and celebrates their gender
confusion.*
“There is a risk of locking children into a life course, which, if they had
been left to develop naturally, they would have outgrown,” Sprigg told
the *Christian
Post*. “You'll have children who are going through natural periods of
confusion and experimentation with their sexuality and all of a sudden you
have adults telling them, this means you're gay, you were born gay, you
will never change.”
He told the paper he worries that parents who allow their children to
attend the camp “run the risk of putting them on a path, and locking them
in a transgender identity when that may not have been the natural course of
their life at all.”
*Dr. Kenneth Zucker, chairman of the American Psychiatric Association
subcommittee on gender identity disorders*, would seem to agree with
Spriggs on that point. Zucker told
*LifeSiteNews*<http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/apa-still-considers-transgenderism-a-mental-disorder-just-changed-the-name/>in
December that he
*believes allowing children to act out their gender confusion can have
lasting harmful effects.*
“I think that when people…label a child as transgendered, it kind of has
the connotation of immutability,” Zucker told LifeSiteNews. “I take a very
developmental approach to the treatment of gender dysphoria. * I don’t
think that gender dysphoria is something that is only going to respond to
biomedical treatment.* The real question is, when in development does the
desire to be the other gender become locked in or fixed?”
According to Zucker, *young children experiencing gender confusion may
respond better to therapies that help them embrace their biological sex.*
*“With young children, I think there’s much more pliability,” he said.
“Often, the gender dysphoria remits, for whatever reason. These kids don’t
grow up wanting to be the other gender.* People need to be cognizant that
there are other developmental trajectories.”
***
See also "Psychiatrist says scientifically, there is no such thing as
transgender<http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/psychiatry-expert-scientifically-there-is-no-such-thing-as-transgender/>
."
*~Eowyn*
*Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* |
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