In particular, there is one typically girl thing — now banned — that her son absolutely cannot resist.
"He really struggles with the color pink. He really struggles with the color pink. He can't even really look at pink," Carol says. "He's like an addict. He's like, 'Mommy, don't take me there! Close my eyes! Cover my eyes! I can't see that stuff; it's all pink!' "
What kind of society are we that makes it okay to torture a little boy into thinking everything he likes is wrong?
As his pile of toys dwindled, Carol realized Bradley was hoarding. She would find female action figures stashed between couch pillows. Rainbow unicorns were hidden in the back of Bradley's closet. Bradley seemed at a loss, she said. They gave him male toys, but he chose not to play at all.
"He turned to coloring and drawing, and he just simply wouldn't play with anything. And he would color and draw for hours and hours and hours. And that would be all he did in a day," Carol says. "I think he was really lost. ... The whole way that he knew and understood how to play was just sort of, you know, removed from his house."
This is a little boy who from a very early age has insisted he is a girl, who loves "girl things". His parents took him to therapy because he got beat up by a group of older boys...deciding to change the child instead of address the bullying.
There's a lovely example in the article of a kid who's being raised with his own gender preference, which is a good contrast to this poor kid.
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this is just killing me
Date: 2008-05-08 07:00 pm (UTC)In particular, there is one typically girl thing — now banned — that her son absolutely cannot resist.
"He really struggles with the color pink. He really struggles with the color pink. He can't even really look at pink," Carol says. "He's like an addict. He's like, 'Mommy, don't take me there! Close my eyes! Cover my eyes! I can't see that stuff; it's all pink!' "
What kind of society are we that makes it okay to torture a little boy into thinking everything he likes is wrong?
As his pile of toys dwindled, Carol realized Bradley was hoarding. She would find female action figures stashed between couch pillows. Rainbow unicorns were hidden in the back of Bradley's closet. Bradley seemed at a loss, she said. They gave him male toys, but he chose not to play at all.
"He turned to coloring and drawing, and he just simply wouldn't play with anything. And he would color and draw for hours and hours and hours. And that would be all he did in a day," Carol says. "I think he was really lost. ... The whole way that he knew and understood how to play was just sort of, you know, removed from his house."
This is a little boy who from a very early age has insisted he is a girl, who loves "girl things". His parents took him to therapy because he got beat up by a group of older boys...deciding to change the child instead of address the bullying.
There's a lovely example in the article of a kid who's being raised with his own gender preference, which is a good contrast to this poor kid.