Originally Posted by LezGeri

Well some depressingly ignorant, ill-informed, thoughtless, and downright stupid comments from the majority of the people who have contributed to this thread so far. Including a few from people I thought might know better.

Why on earth shouldn't a seven year old be transgendered?

It's not as if there is anything particularly unique about this case.

YouTube - Out Of The Shadows - Transgender Children
Barbara Walters on transgender children
Would you let your son wear a dress to Kindergarten?
http://www.lauras-playground.com/tra...l_children.htm
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/062...l,73391,6.html
http://www.statenews.com/op_article.phtml?pk=24097
http://www.firelily.com/gender/gianna/dilemma.html
http://www.tsroadmap.com/early/stephanie.html
http://www.mermaids.freeuk.com/
http://www.critpath.org/pflag-talk/tgKIDfaq.html

And something else to consider - At least 1 in 2000 children born in North America are intersexed.
http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency

Intersexed children are frequently subjected to "corrective" surgery before they can even talk.

Now that is real abuse.
http://www.intersexinitiative.org/ar...icalabuse.html