Transgendered children

I watched Barbara Walters' 20/20 tonight on transgendered children. These are beautiful children who as early as two are trapped in their own bodies. It is so sad for them, for their families. And people don't understand and can be so cruel. As explained by one of the parents tonight, transgendered is wanting to be the opposite sex; to be gay is to want to be with the same sex. To see the tears running down the faces of these mamas and daddies--and to see these little children crumble in tears because they are different and misunderstood--will just break your heart.

And no one can tell me that a little child knows anything about gay, heterosexual or transgendered. I believe there are hormonal differences and I don't believe for one minute that one "inherits" this. I believe that they are born with more "female" or "male" feelings or chromosomes. It is so confusing for these beautiful little children, and their parents are heartbroken and lost and don't know what to do. Some are so ignorant and bigoted that they would turn their back on their own flesh and blood rather than accept them, love them unconditionally and seek professional help for them. The suicide rate is extremely high among these children. Can you imagine being so sad, so depressed at the tender age of six that you pray God will take you away? And it comes to my mind the way they used to tie the hands of left-handed children behind their backs, to make them write with their right hands. Another stupid idea and this, to me, is the same principle.

It was an awesome program. I taped it. I wish that everyone could have seen it. It will open your heart and your mind to the heartbreak of these little ones who, although born biologically either as male or female, in their hearts and brains believe that they are either a girl or a boy and cannot function in their gender in a child's world, much less an adult's world.

Oh, that the people of this world would learn to be tolerant of those who are different--sexually, racially, physically, and mentally. The world is full of bullies who make the lives of those different a living hell. What courage for these little children to just get through a day. Would to God that we would all remember, "but for the grace of God, there go I.”