12-Year-Old Transsexual Shocks School
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Sep 19, 2009 06:58 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crossdressing, Education, Loli, Medical, Mental Illness, School, Shota, UK
A school descended into chaos after a 12-year-old boy returned to school after the holidays as a girl, with teachers ordering pupils to address him as “her” and by his new female name; parents were given no warning and children were left bewildered.
The boy is preparing for a sex-change operation and hormone treatment after psychologists decided he had a gender identity disorder.
The boy, whose identity is a closely guarded secret, now attends a secondary school in the south of England; in his previous school he apparently had a long history of cross-dressing and “girlie” behaviour, wearing a bikini during swimming lessons and wearing pink ribbons in his hair.
With the start of the latest term he began attending school as a girl, wearing a dress and with his hair in pigtails, having legally changed his name to something more feminine.
Children at the school were simply told at an assembly that:
“You may notice one pupil is not present in this assembly – that is because the pupil is now a girl.”
Children not using his new name or referring to him as a girl were then threatened with punishment.
It seems the boy and his parents thought nobody would notice that he was now a “she,” as the children had just moved up to secondary school from primary school.
However, pupils from his primary were attending the new school as well, and immediately recognised him and spread the word. Unsurprisingly, taunts and bullying soon followed.
The fracas has seen the boy scared away from school, says one source at the school:
“His parents have accepted he has now chosen to be a girl, and that’s how he will be. She has not come into school since the assembly. There were things that went on in the community which have been extremely upsetting for the family.
It was a knock-on effect from what was said in school. So they can’t let her come in for her own safety. We have no idea exactly when she will be coming back, but she will be back.”
The school felt the best way around his problematic gender as to provide him with his own special toilet and changing room; his previous school had insisted he use the same facilities as other boys.
A taxpayer funded operation and hormone therapy will apparently have to wait until the boy passes puberty.
Via The Sun.
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For some reason, this article makes me want to cry... She shouldn't be bullied just because she feels she's a girl, even though she was born a boy.
I'll admit I don't understand more than a minor part of desiring to be the opposite gender (seriously, I'm sure that almost every girl wishes for just a moment to be male during a certain part of the month...), but I do understand that to some people, being their biological sex just doesn't make them happy and that it often makes them hate themselves. Why should those around them make it any harder on the person in question?
Not sure about my feelings on the government funded part... But I'm butthurt about anything the government does anyway, so it doesn't matter.
Also, Jun~!
Agreed, though I have to add there's also the "grass is greener" thing. I'm a girl too and when I was younger I went through a period of thinking I would fit in better with guys, and feeling that they have it so much easier because my habits matched up with theirs much better. I was so jealous of how they could practically roll out of bed and go out and still be socially acceptable. I acted that way and was ridiculed since I was a girl who didn't give a crap about makeup or fashion, and it gave me a serious inferiority complex.
As I grew older though, I learned to see all the social standards guys have to live with too, which are just as bad. Being expected to be tough and unemotional would have been hard on me too. They also seem to not be allowed to enjoy cute things D: and get constantly accused of being pervs and pedos, and can't even like kids in a totally platonic fashion without being under suspicion, which just sucks.
After that realization and maturing a bit, I'm happy to be a girl. I've grown to appreciate my body more, and my ability to indulge in a variety of cute things. It's great to be a girl... you practically get a free pass to enjoy all the loli you want. |D
Anyway, um.. my point is that at a young age it might be easy to feel like you'd rather be the other gender, but it could be because you are tired of all your own gender's problems and haven't yet recognized the problems of the other. Not at all to say gender identity disorder doesn't exist, but this is just something to keep in mind.
I understand the 'grass is greener' deal, though I've long since stopped caring about being bullied for not taking an hour to get ready. I was lucky and aside from my mom wanting me to wear dresses all the time (another stroke of luck being that I only had to wear them on special occasions. It would have been fine if they had fit my sense of style, but I'm getting off- topic now)I could play sword fighting with boys and was allowed to play with dolls when I wanted, and Hotwheels when I wanted. I don't fully understand the difference between males and females as far as gender roles go, anyway, so I look at the 'being a guy' thing as 'not bleeding for seven days without dieing, and the insult of being in pain from it as a bonus' rather than 'Uhg! If I was a guy I could get away with my hair being a mess.' Overall biology factors I can understand, but not being allowed to like dolls because of those biological features, I do not.
I have to say that both social standards are annoying as hell. It annoys me to no end that a man who loves his daughter is automatically assumed to 'make love' to her too. God help a guy want to be a teacher because he loves children when they aren't his own! He'll be investigated as a pedo by the end of his career even if he is sexually attracted to women with impossibly large breasts and no sexual interest in anyone under fifty. I think things would be better if people were more realistic about social standards. There's nothing wrong with a guy who can cry, or a girl who wants to participate in a male dominated sport. And while it seems more likely that a man will molest a child (I have done no research on this subject and am simply basing this on a few things I've heard, so consider this a disclaimer) that doesn't mean the odds of little Timmy's science teacher giving him an unwanted handjob are high.
Indeed on the free pass to like Loli! Heck, girls can like (and are practically expected) to like shota without problems, too. And we aren't assumed to be gay if we like traps. I really wish guys were allowed to indulge in cute things, too, without someone ragging on them. There's no shame in thinking somethign is cute.
True. The thing about this though is that she's not allowed to start hormone therapy until she's gone through puberty. That's at least 16 or 18 from what I can tell. In the mean time, there's nothing wrong with her taking a female name, she can change it back if she has a change of heart. Heck, even if she suddenly decided 'You know, I'm a boy, and I want to stay a boy, what am I doing?' I'd see nothing wrong with a boy wanting to wear girl's clothes, and that's not the trap lover in me speaking. I can wear men's jeans if I please, why can't a guy wear a sun dress if it makes him happy? I can't say I wouldn't have a double take if I saw a guy who would fit the description 'hairy lumberjack' walking around my local supermarket in a sundress, straw hat, and high heels, but if it makes him happy and no one is hurt, who cares?
Best comment anon chan and kudos to you musical note, by the way I do like cute thing especially cute girl
I strongly disagree. No offense but its just WRONG for a girl to try to be a man and a boy to be a girl. Seriously did you even see people like that in society? They are strange and creepy.
Ever read Hourou Musuko? Do it. It's great stuff.
If the kid is mentally a girl then it's outright cruel to expect her to continue living as a boy. If someone is mentally one thing and physically another then obviously what they are mentally is more important- that's what their entire reality is built around. You can change someone physically by surgery and hormone therapy, but the only way to change someone mentally is brainwashing. I'm glad her parents understand.
What makes one mentally a girl or mentally a boy? Gender differences are a social construct. Instead of telling him (and until scientists can swap chromosomes he'll always be a he) that he should have a sex change, they should be telling him and everybody else that there's nothing wrong with a male wanting to wear dresses or act femininely.
If people could just accept each other for who they are, people wouldn't be so obsessed with changing any part of them others don't like.
Exactly. Do whatever you want -- wear a dress, wear a garbage bag, bark like a fucking dog and drink piss if you want -- so long as it harms no one that doesn't wish to be harmed.
The exaggerated and unnecessary response is the product of an exaggerated and unnecessary response.
They fucked up because the world is fucked up. That is the way life is.
Looks like we have a new school shooter then. Getting bored of those emo kids -.-
Oh god.... I don't think I like that idea.
eeeeeew, what if some boy dates her and doesn't know shes a guy??? eeeeew!
That would be my ideal date. I'd keep him forever and ever. I also wouldn't let him get a sex-change operation.
traps want to stay male though and it doesnt start at twelve usually its started in late teens
A girl with a guy's body is even more appealing than a trap to me.
"A girl with a guy's body is even more appealing than a trap to me."
I agree to this, I want to be one myself ^_^
Man! It's hard enough avoiding traps on teh interwebz let alone IRL.
That would make the Guy , Gay which he dates a Former Guy . So yeah Gay Guy marries Transexual Female Guy
sexual preference is defined by attraction to sexual traits. If you like DD, small waist, round ass, long hair, and a pretty face than your straight. It doesn't matter if you find out they have/had a penis later it doesn't change the fact that they have tits.
This is pretty disgusting, honestly. "Psychologists said so" is the most rage-inducing reason to fuck up your kid's life to me and I'm seeing it happen more and more in both the people around me and the people in the news.
It's not so much a problem of psychologists diagnosing stuff, it's the methods of fixing them that they suggest. "Your kid has trouble paying attention in school. THIS CAN NEVER BE FIXED WITHOUT PERSONALITY-ALTERING DRUGS, SO BE SURE TO TAKE THEM." "Your kid hasn't even hit puberty yet and he wants to be a girl. THIS CAN NEVER BE FIXED WITHOUT PERMANENTLY ALTERING HIS BODY TO BE A FEMALE, SO BE SURE TO GET A SEX CHANGE." Yeah, sure.
The part that REALLY makes me angry, however, is how easily modern parents give in to this shit. Do they really not know how to raise their kids to the point where they have to hand them off to someone else and leave them in the care of modern medicine? EVERYTHING is a "disorder" now, and modern drugs are powerful enough to permanently destroy those "disorderly" parts. Depression? It also has another name: it's called sadness. Back when people lived as people, the common prescription for it was called "cheer up".
Dig yourself a hole. Climb into it. Pull the dirt over your head. Die.
err..i'm not one to forbid freedom of will..but..why change your gender when you're already the person you were meant to be =_=
Because not everyone subscribes to old farmers tales of Gods. Once one opens their mind to some rational thinking and truly takes a good hard look at their beliefs, they hopefully see the flaws in it.
Watch some QualiaSoup videos and open your mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wV_REEdvxo
It's not what he was "meant to be". He/she had a genetic mixup upon conception. Giving her a female mind, but a male body. She wants to correct this genetic hiccup so she can feel normal, not like she's been put in the wrong body.
A genetic mix up?
Are you sure? Can you demonstrate that objectively? Can you define normal without making a normative judgment? And what's the universally accepted definition of "a female mind?"
He's exactly what nature, genetics, and chance determined he would be. If someone can't survive, they die. If he can't attract a mate, his genes won't be passed on. Nature doesn't care because a single individual doesn't matter. Saying it's a mistake is like saying it's a mistake for a comet to fly into a star. It implies intent where none exists.
He doesn't want to correct nature's mistake. He wants to reject what he is in favor of what he wants to be. There's no problem with that, but if you're going to criticize belief in the Gods, don't then imply a will in nature.
A genetic mix up as far as mix up's go in life. Conception didn't work they way it usually does. Genetic code wasn't copied properly. This happens in life sometimes due to the chance of many variables.
A female mind is genetically different from a male mind. That is my definition of a female mind. Genetics determine your sex and general attitude. While experience as your growing up add-on to that base attitude.
I never said nature cared. Everything in life is the result of something else. There is no chance or free will. Just equal and opposite reactions.
What happened is a mistake as far as mistakes are defined in life. A procedure didn't go how it should normally go. And thus something went wrong.
Humans have evolved to a point where we have to take evolution into our own hands. Natural selection has little effect when we have created such a society where we take care of the stupid, lazy and retarded. Where in the wild they would have died off pretty quick in most cases.
Be proud of what you are boy.
With the state of UK schools / children as they are at the moment this boy will be eaten alive ¬_¬
This is the "gayest" thing I've ever heard of.
You know, my philosophy is strongly against guys who like to cross-dress and thus have surgery to become a "woman". No matter how I look it, they will ALWAYS be guys to me.
Will you know it's a guy until she tells you? After you finish having sex with what you would probably describe as (for the sake of lolzworthy irony) "the best pussy you ever had"?
Fail indeed.
Enjoy living in your box. I for one hope you suffocate in it.
I pity you
When we are still a embryo, everybody is both male and female. The main characteristics of the genders start in puperty and if you take hormones you can avoid turning into the wrong gender.
As embryos, everybody starts female. Primary sexual characteristics are determined before we're born, with secondary sexual characteristics developing during puberty.
A Y chromosome. You either have it, or you don't (ignoring extremely rare cases). He's either a boy, or a girl. He can think or act however he wants, have all the plastic surgery and hormone therapy in the world, but unless science makes some major advances in his lifetime, he'll always be a male.
A sex change is nothing more than a surgical form of dress up. It allows people to pretend they're something they're not, but it doesn't change who they are.
Good For Her! I'm behind her 100%
in more ways then one...
''Good for him''
Fixed
I wish I had been as brave as that kid when I was that age. I'm glad to hear she's starting so early. To this day, I seriously regret not starting on therapy and hormones back when they could have made a huge difference. If only I had known back then what was possible and preventable, I would have spoken up earlier. Even when I did my best to hide the truth from others (and myself), I was still constantly abused. So in retrospect, revealing the truth back then wouldn't have made that much of a difference with regards to how others would have treated me anyway. I would have been happier with my body and myself at least. Oh well, better late than never, I guess. I suppose my current body isn't too bad though, but I'll always wonder about what could have been.
Guess you best do what your mind tlls you ! I f feeling you to be a girl, act like a girl an the other way around as well ! For me it does'nt matter whjat you feel to be like, i just love (or don't love) the PERSON you are ! So for now : I LOVE you - as i am bi ... (Pete)
Change all his physical traits (voice, adam's apple, etc) to that of a girl, except for her breast so that we can have an everlasting DFC. Leave the penis too.. in case for yuri futa sex with his girl mates..
That sounds like an awesome course of action.
So now he's a futa(still have hot dog) or trap(no hot dog)?
Traps still have penises... Traps are people who could convincingly pass as the opposite gender.
Or, rather, males that look like girls are traps and girls that look like boys are reverse traps, to put it in a basic manner.
Futa are 'dick girls', possessing both breasts and penis. Sometimes the possess a vagina as well, but it seems to depend on the artist involved, as I understand it.
Unless she can pass as a girl, she is neither a trap nor a futa.
Either way, she's still got a penis, since she has to wait until puberty.
Futa's have vagina's as well.
You're thinking of newhalfs, lot of folks confuse them with futa's, but they're mot akin to pre-op transexuals. Boobs, dick, not vagina. Usually no desire to get rid of the dick either.
Thanks, I'm a trap lover, and only have the gist of futa (Natural breasts + a dick). I'm glad for the clarification.
futa has "dog" and then some. Trap just has "dog" but is a very convincing crossdresser.
The immaturity I see here is hilarious, if I didn't know better I'd say half the people here were twelve, have none of you ever heard of gender identity disorders?
you mean to say, you've never heard of trolling?
I kinda feel bad she is getting bullied for a mental problem. God knows it caused me not to trust anyone outside of my family. Idk I have a soft spot for those who suffer like that.
*British voice on*
Oi, what's all this then?
*British voice off*
This is the youngest account of a transsexual in the news. It's weird, but hey, it happens. No real need to threaten the kid though.
On that note, breast cancer victims in UK get shunned for wanting a medication that could've saved their lives b/c it's too expensive, yet this teen gets to have a sex change ok'd by same ppl? The world is indeed fukkd up.
Though his/her classmates are just like all other kids: Self-indulgent pricks. They will still pick on him/her even if he/her did not change his/her gender just because he acted like a girl!
As for breast cancer victims, I can kind of imagine that the British are trying to lie to themselves that breast cancer never existed.
You fail (Much like 90% of the other comments here) for saying "He/she".
Fails harder for thinking that the whole medical process gets held up for one person. You know there's more than ONE dollar right? They they can spend on OTHER people?
The more people in the world, the more weird it gets :/
Wow, I haven't read an article with this kind of thought put into comments in a while. Personally I don't see a problem with him wanting to turn into a girl, it's just that he should have been ready or at least be prepared for the public outlash that would follow. After all, society is hard-wired to reject the abnormal, that is to say, anything different from what is considered the norm in that particular society.
What kind of fucking retard parents let a 12 year old decide what gender he wants to be? Holy shit, a 12 year old confused with his identity? That's clearly a serious problem that requires a sex change.
Someone needs to tell him the truth. No matter how feminine he acts, no matter what they do to make him look like a girl, he's a boy and he'll always be a boy and nothing can change that.
If he still wants to go through with it when he's old enough to think somewhat rationally, fine. But letting him pretend to be something he's not just so he can avoid having to work through any identity issues he may have is asinine.
maybe you'll read the article...just maybe...what can you do after multiple visits to a psyche...
You can wait. Until you're brain is fully developed. Then you can go to a shrink and see what they think.
Sorry, but I don't put much faith in psychologists in general, and in particular those who think treating a boy as a girl is the correct way to deal with common adolescent gender identity confusion.
If he has a real condition, have him see a psychiatrist, not a psychologist. Have them document and treat it. Just don't let him ruin his life before he's even old enough to decide such things for himself.
So a 12 year old doesn't have the right to choose what would make him happy? That what the majority of these comments sound like just because he's "too young to think this through"
What if she never gets to grow up because all of the stress and bullying get to her and she goes and kills herself?
Yay, another fucking idiot.
Last I checked, he was diagnosed with GID, thus, he is not simply a confused child.
And secondly: learn to read the entire article before you post.
Then they'd probably fap to the corpse.
He may indeed simply be a confused child, since most children who meet the four criteria for GID have no symptoms post puberty. IE, all he probably needs is time to grow up.
There's some evidence that GID may have a neurological basis, and if that can be demonstrated by a psychiatrist, and the boy and his parents decide they'd rather have a sex change that address any underlying medical conditions, fine. But has he even seen a psychiatrist? Or were his parents so confused by his behavior that they brought him to a psychologist who decided he needs a sex change without even considering his neurological health?
There's no consensus of course, and many doctors feel GIDs a mental, not neurological condition. If that's the case, considering that many mental conditions expressed in childhood eventually disappear by adulthood, is 12 years old really the right time to decide what gender he should be? That's not even considering whether changing the body to meet the mind's perception makes more sense than counseling the mind to accept the reality of the body.
Just to be clear, I'm not denying that GID exists, or saying he shouldn't have a sex change. I just think that 12 years old is too young to make permanent decisions based on what may very likely be a temporary condition.
Maybe she'll win a gold medail in the next Olympic games.
Hahaha. Best.
Now if the world had more boys as cute as Watarase Jun.
That will actually be scary. How am I going to differentiate boys from girls?
The right answer is don't worry about it ;D
Just send him to a warzone or feed him to sex hungry girls so that his manly side kick in
Never heard of female soldiers, I see.
Oi, poor kid, good luck with that.
disorder in gender not in mental, dont scare !
For all the narrow minded losers and bigots out there, it has been scientifically PROVEN that some people actually have a brain more congurent with the opposite sex, than the one they were apparently born as. Also, most trans people say they felt they were the opposite sex at a very young age. Taking into consideration also, that a lot of pubertal effects are irreversable, (especially on the male body) then early treatment and intervention is the way to go. This kid will have far higher chance of blending into society as a woman, than if those highly damaging pubertal effects are allowed to irreverably change her body. If someone has felt the opposite sex from a very young age, and still feels that way by the onset of puberty, then it's almost certain they will feel like that for the rest of their lives.
What you narrow minded morons out there don't accept, or don't want to accept, is that these people CANNOT help how they feel. And if their brain is wired to that of the opposite sex, then parental "guidance" and psychological treatment to try and change how they see their gender won't work. Like it or lump it, some are just BORN that way. Some of you might not like that FACT, but it doesn't prevent it from being so. Just because the brain cannot be seen, does not mean it should be disregarded in assigning someone's gender. You will never convince someone with a female brain structure that they are male, because their brains are not wired to accept that. The fact they may have male sexual anatomy matters not a jot in that department.
And the title of this movie is "Girlyman"
That is soooo brave of her. Poor girl why do people have to be mean to her just because she used to be a guy.
The sheer ignorance and bigotry expressed in many of the comments on this article make me depressed for humanity.
Exactly. I was being sarcastic, in response to the person who said this: "So why let someone cut off his dick when he just might be teh gay?"
WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING IDIOTS GUYS!?
I'm so sick of reading some coments...
It's just a girl soul born in a boy's body! That's all!
But who are you to judge him/her? You real fucking idiots.
I just really hope people like him can find their way to live in that fucking planet with animals like you... pffff...
right the way i answered some others ! thanks for sharing my opinion ! (pete)
I'll be waiting for when he turns 18, he'll need some love :3c
""wearing a bikini during swimming lessons and wearing pink ribbons in his hair.""
:O
....
YES
I approve, mostly because I love traps, 2D and 3DPD alike, but also because the kid is going to reassign his gender sooner or later, and it probably helps to start this early.
Never ceases to amaze me that people assume that OTHER peoples lives and bodies should be dependent upon THEIR OWN notions of identity and self. Because we all know that "deviants" must have their affairs open to public scrutiny all the time, even when you don't.
poor kid, it IS a fact that the brain way of thinking may differ to the body. Heck I've even looked into this enough to know that there are studies out there to prove it, I'm not sure if you consider this as one but i have a link to a site that tests how you're brain works
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml
PLEASE if you click this reply to me if you're gender and mind are opposite. (apparently I think like a girl 'spite I'm a guy :'(
I'm 12 years old and what is this?
is some problem only few ppl get to - guess you are a nice and friendly boy or girl that doest'nt add all those that are not accepting nature's problems ...
At first I laughed, then I realized shit is serious and I became angry
If it was her decision then let it be.
Not everyone is born the way they want to be. Some people genuinely feel they are of the opposite sex (many possible events could occur after fertilization of the egg and sperm where someone is genetically a boy; XY but wrong hormones or signals were sent and moved them towards femininity. Or it could be he was XX, a girl but wrong signals were sent to make them develop into a boy. There is soo many possibilities...)
Why these people don't give her a chance. I don't think its creepy for her to be in a girls bathroom as she is a girl now. People just need to accept her decisions and treat her like a human.
ok cross dressing can be fun, yes i am a guy . but using tax money for retarded treatment or changing sex because you're a uncomfortable is plane retarded . What that kid needs is some good beating to knock some sense into him , not sex switch . and he feels like suicide , thats great too
Oh the irony.
He should have made halves and become BARON ASURA
Well i can understand this since some men act girly and i have read things which i don't remember enough to translate them.
Anyway how anybody doesn't want to have a penis anymore even if he wants to be a girl is beyond me.
Can't they make him in a futanari?
Things would be so much better if Earth got hit with a meteorite and we would be back to the ages of survival of the fittest.
Kid never watched enough anime. What you do is pretend you're a distant cousin trading places with the guy, and pretend to be someone else. Of the same name. And appearance.
Dude i like your way of thinking. And why would you tell the school that your boy is now a girl. They should have known that she was going to get bullyed.
why the hell do the other kids gotta change the way they speak to him? wtf is up with that, i mean being called a looser and all other names are hurtful but they allow that to be said. why do people need to say "she" just so cross-dressers and gender benders feel better about them selves...
note: no matter how much of your body you make look like a female, your still gonna be a male. its impossible to make a male body 100% female, just because he likes men and dresses like a fucking girl doesn't mean he's a real girl.
i accept the fact that he dresses how he wants to, but i won't give up my freedom to say it how i see it. let him deal with the teasing just like 99% of all the other kids have to do.
it fucking pisses me off that everyone takes special care of gender benders, while everyone else is on their own in this harsh world.
The problem is people have this sense of entitlement. They should go back to those pig farming days.
pics plz.
hi
"Everyone is born BI, its just the teaching of Elders, and religion that bends ppl to like the opposite sex."
so the boy wants to be a girl, than let him. sure he has not hit puberty, but that don't mean ppl still have to force him to be manly.
i agree that the surgery should be held off till then though!
but in my opinion: if the parents continue to support him and let him do as he pleases than even though puberty he may still want to be a girl and there is nothing wrong with it. i mean its 2009, "just because a bunch of bible thumpers want to say its wrong and teach there kids strictly by the book, don't mean it is"
And I suppose it's the teachings of the elders and religion that causes every single mammalian species to seek mates of the opposite sex?
The problem isn't that he wants to be a girl. The problem is that he's 12. If he were 45 nobody would give a fuck but 12 is too young to be making this decision, and instead of doing what they should be doing and telling him that he's fine just the way he is and that he doesn't need to change his appearance to be happy, his parents are letting him make a decision that will quite probably ruin his life.
All kids are confused about who they are. They don't need a sex change, just a supporting family and time to grow up. If he has to wait till after puberty to have the change anyways, why not treat him like a boy until then, since that's exactly what he is. By the time he's 18, he'll probably change him mind anyways.
with most trans kids, when people force them to "stay a boy" or w/e, they end up committing suicide or engaging in other self harming activities by the time they're 18 (drugs/cutting/etc)
you can't really know how things feel to the kid unless you ARE the kid...
Ah, so impossible for psychiatry to just brainwash him (while he's young enough) into believing he's the boy whose body he inhabits. Let him be a bit fruity, it doesn't harm anyone's tax money.
But nooo, they just have to put a superfluous burden on his classmates and society.