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taking his medication again and things can go back to the way they were.
It really is quite good luck that he has decided to be vegetarian, because I can make him a separate meal and slip his medication in. So much of vegetarian food is just sloppy mushed up stuff anyway. It’s not ideal, but hopefully we should see it take effect in the next couple of days.
I understand now why he must have been feeling so crazy and mixed up. Hormones are such powerful things, and being a teenager on top of that. I am sure his moods will stabilise after this.
I can’t tell you what a weight this is off my shoulders!
The only thing is that now he’s decided he wants to be a model! Yes, a female model! Modelling clothes. It’s got to be one of the only careers that requires that you actually are a girl. It’s typical. Still I expect he will stop all of this very soon once the medication has kicked in.
Heather
COMMENTS:
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Dee Dee wrote:
That explains so much of what you’ve been going through!
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Vic wrote:
Heather, I understand this is a really confusing time for you, but don’t you think dosing up your child with testosterone without telling her is wrong? Is it just me? That’s wrong, isn’t it? Shouldn’t you sit down and talk to Alex about what she wants?
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Dee Dee wrote:
If my three-year-old twins refuse to eat vegetables, I don’t sit down and talk about it, I bribe, cheat, cajole and browbeat until the vegetables get eaten. That’s what good parents do. Theydon’t let their kids decide what’s good for them. Parents decide what’s right. That’s what parenting is. That’s how you make good, law-abiding adults.
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Vic wrote:
Alex isn’t three.
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Dee Dee wrote:
Ok, what if Alex had ADHD and decided to stopped taking his medication? Would you advocate sitting down and talking about it? What if it was cancer? Or diabetes? What if it was schizophrenia? No, you would make sure the kid took his damn pills!
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Vic wrote:
Alex doesn’t have cancer. She doesn’t have a disease, and it’s not up to Heather to decide Alex’s identity. It’s up to Alex, and right now Alex is not being allowed to make an informed decision about her own body and wellbeing. This is really serious. Some of the changes her body is going through during puberty will not be reversible. She will have to live in that body for the rest of her life. I’m sorry, but in my opinion this is abuse.
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Cheryl wrote:
I understand you feel very strongly about this Vic, but with respect, you haven’t met Alex. It really is up to Heather to decide what’s best for him until he turns sixteen.
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Vic wrote:
*Her. Alex is a girl.
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Heather wrote:
I appreciate your concern, Vic, but the doctors have examined Alex thoroughly all of his life, and they have made a determination that Alex is actually male. It’s not a disease, but he does have a medical condition. He just needs hormonal support to help him develop into a male as much as he can.
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Vic wrote:
Isn’t it time someone told Alex?
18
WE CATCH THE school minibus to the first rehearsal. There are ten of us. Amina, Julia and I are the youngest. There are three girls from year ten and four from year eleven. Miss Angela is at the front, and another teacher—a balding man that I haven’t met before—drives the bus. When we arrive he pulls out a newspaper and tilts the seat back a little more.
Will we go bald? Alex asks. Because Dad is balding and Poppy—our mother’s dad—was bald too. I put my hand on the crown of my head. Plenty of hair there now. But. Something else to worry about.
I assumed the shop doing the clothes for the fashion parade would be a normal shop in a mall somewhere, but it’s a warehouse with shiny insulation lining the ceiling and spinning whirligigs that chop up the light. There are clothes on wheelie racks lined up higgledy-piggledy everywhere. In the middle there is a stage. I’ve seen thisbefore in a bridal shop. You stand on the little dais and
It really is quite good luck that he has decided to be vegetarian, because I can make him a separate meal and slip his medication in. So much of vegetarian food is just sloppy mushed up stuff anyway. It’s not ideal, but hopefully we should see it take effect in the next couple of days.
I understand now why he must have been feeling so crazy and mixed up. Hormones are such powerful things, and being a teenager on top of that. I am sure his moods will stabilise after this.
I can’t tell you what a weight this is off my shoulders!
The only thing is that now he’s decided he wants to be a model! Yes, a female model! Modelling clothes. It’s got to be one of the only careers that requires that you actually are a girl. It’s typical. Still I expect he will stop all of this very soon once the medication has kicked in.
Heather
COMMENTS:
----
Dee Dee wrote:
That explains so much of what you’ve been going through!
----
Vic wrote:
Heather, I understand this is a really confusing time for you, but don’t you think dosing up your child with testosterone without telling her is wrong? Is it just me? That’s wrong, isn’t it? Shouldn’t you sit down and talk to Alex about what she wants?
----
Dee Dee wrote:
If my three-year-old twins refuse to eat vegetables, I don’t sit down and talk about it, I bribe, cheat, cajole and browbeat until the vegetables get eaten. That’s what good parents do. Theydon’t let their kids decide what’s good for them. Parents decide what’s right. That’s what parenting is. That’s how you make good, law-abiding adults.
----
Vic wrote:
Alex isn’t three.
----
Dee Dee wrote:
Ok, what if Alex had ADHD and decided to stopped taking his medication? Would you advocate sitting down and talking about it? What if it was cancer? Or diabetes? What if it was schizophrenia? No, you would make sure the kid took his damn pills!
----
Vic wrote:
Alex doesn’t have cancer. She doesn’t have a disease, and it’s not up to Heather to decide Alex’s identity. It’s up to Alex, and right now Alex is not being allowed to make an informed decision about her own body and wellbeing. This is really serious. Some of the changes her body is going through during puberty will not be reversible. She will have to live in that body for the rest of her life. I’m sorry, but in my opinion this is abuse.
----
Cheryl wrote:
I understand you feel very strongly about this Vic, but with respect, you haven’t met Alex. It really is up to Heather to decide what’s best for him until he turns sixteen.
----
Vic wrote:
*Her. Alex is a girl.
----
Heather wrote:
I appreciate your concern, Vic, but the doctors have examined Alex thoroughly all of his life, and they have made a determination that Alex is actually male. It’s not a disease, but he does have a medical condition. He just needs hormonal support to help him develop into a male as much as he can.
----
Vic wrote:
Isn’t it time someone told Alex?
18
WE CATCH THE school minibus to the first rehearsal. There are ten of us. Amina, Julia and I are the youngest. There are three girls from year ten and four from year eleven. Miss Angela is at the front, and another teacher—a balding man that I haven’t met before—drives the bus. When we arrive he pulls out a newspaper and tilts the seat back a little more.
Will we go bald? Alex asks. Because Dad is balding and Poppy—our mother’s dad—was bald too. I put my hand on the crown of my head. Plenty of hair there now. But. Something else to worry about.
I assumed the shop doing the clothes for the fashion parade would be a normal shop in a mall somewhere, but it’s a warehouse with shiny insulation lining the ceiling and spinning whirligigs that chop up the light. There are clothes on wheelie racks lined up higgledy-piggledy everywhere. In the middle there is a stage. I’ve seen thisbefore in a bridal shop. You stand on the little dais and
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