They think they’re accommodating and doing good things, instead of being parties to child abuse
Transgender day camp among first to include 4-year-olds
In some ways, Rainbow Day Camp is very ordinary. Kids arrive with a packed lunch, make friendship bracelets, play basketball, sing songs and get silly. But it is also extraordinarily unique, from the moment campers arrive each morning.
At check-in each day, campers make a nametag with their pronoun of choice. Some opt for “she” or “he.” Or a combination of “she/he.” Or “they,” or no pronoun at all. Some change their name or pronouns daily, to see what feels right.
The camp in the San Francisco Bay Area city of El Cerrito caters to transgender and “gender fluid” children, ages 4 to 12, making it one of the only camps of its kind in the world open to preschoolers, experts say. Enrollment has tripled to about 60 young campers since it opened three summers ago, with kids coming from as far as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. – even Africa. Plans are underway to open a branch next summer in Colorado, and the camp has been contacted by parents and organizations in Atlanta, Seattle, Louisiana and elsewhere interested in setting up similar programs.
They and the parents should all be locked up for perpetuating this staggering abuse of children.
Studies show transgender adults have higher rates of suicide and depression than the general population. A 2016 study by the University of Washington’s TransYouth Project, published in the journal Pediatrics, found trans children who live as their preferred gender and are supported by their parents have the same mental health outcomes as other kids their age.
That’s what happens when people with mental illness do not get proper treatment, and, instead, are patronized into continuing the belief that they aren’t their actual biological gender.
TEACH: From what medical school did you graduate? What residency program in psychiatry did you complete? Or did you receive training in clinical psychology? Are you a registered therapist?
Or are you just another ill-informed Con Man with an opinion? My uncle Charlie used to say, “opinions are like assholes, everybody has one”.
Every bird, every reptile, and every mammal has the ability to tell the differences between males and females of their own species; only human liberals have become so f(ornicating) stupid that they have lost this ability.
You are what you are, and you ain’t what you ain’t! If you have a penis and testicles, you are male, period; if you have ovaries and a vagina, you are female, and nothing else. (Anyone who is born without these two combinations, or with elements of both, has a birth defect.) If you think you are the sex other than what your physical body indicates, you are delusional. It does not take a medical degree to understand this.
Neither surgery nor hormones can change a person’s sex; they can, at most, mutilate someone. We may have sympathy for people who suffer from such delusions, and perhaps psychiatric treatment can help them, but the solution is not to reaffirm their delusions; the solution is to tell them the truth and help them accept the truth.
As for the notion that children aged four to twelve can reasonably take such decisions, that’s utter madness. Our host is right: having this ‘camp’ ought to be considered a criminal offense, and both the camp owners and the ‘parents’ who send their children there ought to be thrown in jail.
Imagine: if you are 17 years old, you can be thrown in jail and permanently labeled a sex offender if you send a naked picture of your 17 year old girlfriend over the internet, but if you are aged 4 to 12, the left believe you are mature enough to decide that you are the wrong sex.
Oops! I see that I had forgotten to change my handle back in the last comment.