Possible gender identity issue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oye. People, gender and sexual orientation are unrelated. He is 6 so I wouldn't put much meaning into anything, but liking "girly" things has nothing to do with whether he will be gay.

Actually, recent research has found that boys with gender identity issues are overwhelmingly most likely to be gay adults, as opposed to transgendered adults.

Care to provide a legit source for that claim.

Don't have the exact link, but look into research by Dr Norman Spack and his colleagues at Harvard & Boston's Children's Hospital.
A quote from Dr Spack:

The majority of children who express recurrent interest in being the opposite sex are not transgendered, although many become homosexual. 4 A small percentage of children who are emphatic and consistent in their desire to be the opposite gender (less than 20% of the above) prefer to be called by a pronoun and name consistent with their gender identity.

I attended a conference a year and a half ago at which some of the latest research was presented. If I can find my materials with specific research, I'll post it. Fascinating stuff.

[Anonymous]

Also:

In the 1970s and 1980s, parents of gender-variant children had even fewer chances to connect with other parents. They were more likely to try to change their children than to learn to accept them. Back then, some mental health professionals theorized that children with persistent and multiple gender-variant interests--which for boys include pretending to be female characters such as Snow White, dressing up in girls' clothing or expressing the desire to be a girl--were likely to develop gender identity disorder (GID) and seek to become transsexuals as adults.
But in 1987, psychiatrist Richard Green, MD, published a seminal study later corroborated by other researchers that found that extreme boyhood gender nonconformity was associated with a homosexual or bisexual identity in adulthood--neither of which are disorders.
In fact, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition) states that "only a very small number of children" with GID behaviors will continue to meet the criteria for GID in later adolescence or adulthood, and only a small minority change their gender as adults. "That means we can really see that sexual orientation is set very early in life," says Lehne, pointing out that about 75 to 80 percent of gender-variant boys become gay. "Unfortunately, in spite of some progress, many of these kids are still tormented and teased."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am 32 married with 2 children and still want to be a man. I am not transgender, and I don't have any identity issues, just always thought it was way cooler to be a boy, and definitely easier to be a man in our society. Give your son a chance who knows what's going on, most likely just a phase. None of my gay male acquaintances like pink or want to wear high heels. They also seem to have more male friends than female friends. I think he is just going through this phase because all his friends are girls.

My understanding is that Transgender isn't about wanting to be a . . . (whatever doesn't match your genitalia). It's about being, that is, knowing at your core that you are a . . . "

Sometimes I want to be a man. I want to get more money, and not have my period, and all sorts of things. These feelings don't make me transgender. If I were I'd already be a man, I'd just have parts that don't match.

[Anonymous]

Why the use of profanity? Just make your points without it.