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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I don’t think it’s weird at all for any particular 12 year old to know who they’re attracted to.[/quote]

Me either.  What I do think is weird, is when a child that has been cruising along as the gender assigned at birth with crushes and romances on the opposite sex, suddenly change and do the opposite.

Another thing, when you teach children that not being comfortable in your own body is a 'sign' that you are not your birth gender, it is going to confuse them when puberty hits.  How many girls are comfortable with surging hormones, breasts, hair in new places, body odors, your first period, and everything else that comes with puberty?  It is 100% normal and natural not to feel comfortable in your own skin at this time... it does not make you trans/pans/etc.  It makes you a normal kid.  God help you if you are an early bloomer and do not have a comrade in puberty to go through it with - it is a lonely, confusing time.  T[b]his little vessel that has been your body for 10-14 years is all of a sudden betraying you. 
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I am sorry, maybe I am not woke enough to be a parent today or hang out on this board.  But it makes me sad to see my child, who was so confident and secure in who she was, all of a sudden filled with self doubt and gender confused.  She was the first girl in her school to start puberty and she hates her body now.  I blame a lot of it on the schools that are going overboard in trying to make everyone feel included, our culture that has made it taboo for parents to guide their kids, and the Internet that is just full of stuff that is in many cases just not accurate.

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Your body is not "betraying" you and that is never, ever a message that a child should hear. It is developing naturally, as is intended. They are growing up. This is what happens.

-- a pedicatrician [/quote]

Oh FFS.  Since you are a pediatrician, I would hope you have a good enough bedside manner to understand human speech and phrasing.  Do you really not get what the PP was trying to say?[/quote]

I actually do think that is exactly what PPs child thinks; it is very common at that age. I’m saying that PP as mother needs to correct that thinking. [/quote]

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