Do you think that...

this is sad?

Boy of 12 wants to become a girl

I think the parents are wrong, and badly wrong here, they shouldn't of considered this to be done to that boy, to young to understand the consequences

Maybe the parents wanted a girl in the first place, and they made the boy feel that he was wrong to be male? The parents seem to welcome the change.

Why is a mutilated pretend woman better than a healthy gay guy? And if they are doing surgery on the kids penis when he is barely a teen? You would think someone should be an adult to make the decison to mutilate themselves like that.

There are some people who are born with half developed genitalia, then the doctors or parents choose what stereotype sexual identity they will be... life has to be rough for those kids, no matter what.

let the kid do what ze wants.

I like how if the article is opened in Opera it has all these random "?" thoughout it, puts a whole new spin on the writer's feelings on the matter:

Psychiatrists treating her say she was an ?exceptional case ? a person clearly in the wrong body?, even though the decision to grant her wishes when she was so young is still the subject of intense debate.

Her identity and medical insurance cards have been changed to her new name and sex.

But she has not been placed at a different school in case of taunting from children who knew her as him in days gone by because, according to her parents, ?her friends fully accept her as she is?.

She dresses in trendy clothes and told Germany?s Stern magazine that she ?dreams of moving to Paris to become a fashion designer?.

The family?s full identity has not been made public. But Kim?s father, known as Lutz P, told Stern that as a child, Tim liked to play with Barbie dolls, enjoyed wearing dresses and, from the age of two, insisted that he was a girl.

?We saw Kim as a girl, but not as a problem. Our life was surprisingly normal.?

0_o wrote: Maybe the parents wanted a girl in the first place, and they made the boy feel that he was wrong to be male? The parents seem to welcome the change.

My wife had a friend with a boy like this. She had four boys and really wanted a girl the last three tries. The last one she decided she would make into a girl. I saw this kid being dressed in dresses, with long flowing hair, and all this Hello Kitty stuff (but the mother confirmed that it was BLUE Hello Kitty stuff, so it was 'ok').

The family moved away when the kid was about 7... and it was the most confused and screwed up kid I had ever know. Felt really bad for the boy...

... always wanted to do something about it, but my wife always held me back telling me it wasn't my business... Wife wanted me to hang out with the husband, but I always refused... i mean what type of dad sits back and lets his wife do that to one of his OWN sons?!?!?!?!?