https://www.yahoo.com/news/mom-says-9-old-killed-133439707.html

[Joe Bagadonuts]

Well, I'm no authority, but I thought I recalled something regarding high tolerance in Native American societies, and came across this, FWIW....

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/11/two-spirit-people-north-america

https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Native-American-Berdache-Tradition

Good points. When I typed my post I had my friend who had spoken to me about their surgeries on my mind, so that's what I really meant by first world problems. This person had some irreversible stuff done to their body and is only just now recognizing that instead of making them feel better it is making them feel worse. It's really quite tragic. It does not seem likely to me that they will ever find peace.

There are several kids in my kids school who have recently come out as trans. It's interesting to me how accepting my kids and other kids are of this decision. It would not have been that way if someone had made a similar decision (which I don't believe they would have) when I was in high school. So I'm happy these kids aren't being bullied, but I still have a hard time believing that their lives are going to be improved by these sorts of decisions. I'm sure glad that I never felt those sorts of urges.

 

[Gameface]

There is essentially an "explosion" of people identifying as trans. My question is whether there has always been this number of people who felt this way, but it wasn't even a thing that seemed to exist, so they expressed their self differently, or if there is something else, environmental, socially, whatever, that is leading so many more people to identify as trans.

Regardless of the answer, I think all people deserve respect and have every right to live the life they want to live (within their ability to create that life) and should not be harmed based on who they are. It is very scary for me to think of the hate and the ill-will that exists in regard to trans people. The world trans people face every day of their lives in which people want them to be dead, to be out of sight and mind because for whatever reason a person being trans is threatening to them in a way that causes them to react violently or with hate.

I don't really understand this one story about this child, but there are many stories. There are many tragedies.