Think About The Children!

There was story in the news about a child whose parents allow him to paints his toenails. When you read this, think about how we adults create anxiety in them by trying to force children into someone they are not.

J. Crew Ad With Boy's Pink Toenails Creates Stir
Social Conservatives Call Ad 'Propaganda;' Transgender Groups Say Reaction is 'Ridiculous'
ABC News
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
April 13, 2011

A mother paints her son's toenails hot pink because it's his favorite color. Does that mean he'll become gay or transgender? That is the controversy surrounding a J. Crew ad that is swirling around the Internet.

It began when a photo of J. Crew's president and creative director Jenna Lyons painting the toenails of her son Beckett in an ad was sent to customers last week in a feature, "Saturday with Jenna."
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Social conservatives reacted with outrage. Fox News' Dr. Keith Ablow ran an opinion piece on the issue and Erin Brown of the right-leaning Media Research Center called the ad "blatant propaganda celebrating transgendered children."
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One of Brown's online readers wrote, "A small child, with no secondary sexual characteristics, cannot be considered 'transgendered' or even a transvestite. On the other hand, a fully grown person such as yourself can definitely be considered a small-minded a**hole."

OH MY GWD! Panic, indignation, that is how conservatives act when they hear anything about a transgender person. Republicans and Tea Partiers mantra is to get government off our back, less government; however, when it comes to gender identity or expression and sexual orientation, it is lets deny them of their rights to live their lives and pass laws banning their freedom. Let’s treat them like societal piranhas.

The article goes on to say…

"I [Dr. Jack Drescher, a New York City psychiatrist, who wrote the 2010 paper, "Queer Diagnoses," which was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, serves on the American Psychiatric Association's committee that is addressing sexual and gender identity disorder for the DSM-V] can say with 100 percent certainty that a mother painting her children's toe nails pink does not cause transgenderism or homosexuality or anything else that people who are social conservatives would worry about," he said.
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Friction can result when someone outside the family -- a friend or perhaps a "horrified grandmother" -- tries to tell parents "what is right and wrong."
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"The idea that a parent is indulging a child's interest in unconventional gender behavior does something to the child has no scientific basis," he said.

This whole brouhaha that the conservative are raising is creating anxiety in hundreds of parents and teaching the children to withdraw into a shell.

We have to stand up to the Republicans and Tea Partiers and stop them from passing these draconian laws like the amendments that they want to pass here in Connecticut to the anti-discrimination bill and in Maine from passing LD1046. Please standup and help us. We cannot do it by ourselves; we need our allies to speak up.