{"id":270,"date":"2009-05-18T22:58:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T03:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2009-05-18T23:00:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T04:00:54","slug":"transgender-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/transgender-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<center><script src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/js\/2.0\/video\/evp\/module.js?loc=dom&amp;vid=\/video\/living\/2009\/05\/18\/dnt.ne.transgender.kid.ketv\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript>Embedded video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\">CNN Video<\/a><\/noscript><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try not to ruin this by saying too much, but, basically I think this is amazing. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/?\/video\/living\/2009\/05\/18\/dnt.ne.transgender.kid.ketv\" target=\"_blank\">watch the video<\/a> to see what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>I honestly believe that if all transgender people were given this opportunity &#8211; to live as who they really are from the youngest age possible &#8211; not only would society have less of a problem with it, but they would endure so much less pain, depression and struggle for acceptance (because people would know them as who they really are for a much longer period of time).<\/p>\n<p>I think it is awesome how incredibly supportive her parents are. I realize that it must have been a very hard choice for them to make, to allow their daughter to live as she is, and they probably face opposition to their decision every day.<\/p>\n<p>I only wonder if hormone replacement therapy or sexual reassignment surgery will be done at an earlier age (if she chooses to do either)? Will they be more\/less effective before\/during puberty? Will it result in a smoother transition, physically?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to get all <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Money\" target=\"_blank\">John Money<\/a> crazy here and start <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Reimer\" target=\"_blank\">changing a baby&#8217;s biological sex<\/a> before the age of one (PLEASE read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/As-Nature-Made-Him-Raised\/dp\/0060192119\" target=\"_blank\">As Nature Made Him<\/a><\/em>), but I do think if a child is old enough to tell you, repeatedly, that wish they were the opposite sex, or that they are a different gender &#8220;inside&#8221;, then they should be able to transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Embedded video from CNN Video I&#8217;m going to try not to ruin this by saying too much, but, basically I think this is amazing. Please watch the video to see what I mean. I honestly believe that if all transgender people were given this opportunity &#8211; to live as who they really are from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/transgender-girl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transgender Girl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielservadio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}