Japanese schools are struggling to accommodate skyrocketing diagnoses of “gender identity disorder,” which have seen boys as young as 8 attend school clad in skirts and said to be “girls.”
One Saitama school has admitted an 8-year-old boy as a girl after he expressed discomfort at being treated as a boy, and was subsequently diagnosed with gender identity disorder.
His parents had the school let him attend school in a skirt, still with his original name, taking PE with girls and using toilets and changing facilities intended for female staff.
The Saitama prefectural educational board reports it has previously allowed a female high school student to register as a male, but that this is the first time it has accommodated an elementary schooler in such a fashion.
With this serving as impetus, it since surveyed its schools and found dozens of potential cases in all years of school.
A Kagoshima school in similar fashion recently allowed a 13-year-old girl attend middle school as a boy, after she expressed feelings of sickness upon wearing the typical sailor outfit. A specialist helpfully diagnosed her as having gender identity disorder.
The school is considering whether to let her change her name and use male facilities.
A therapist specialising in the disorder insists the disorder must be accommodated by schools, saying that in addition to psychological counselling simply allowing affected children to change uniforms can ease their suffering; indeed, internationally there are already moves to ban gender specific school uniforms on just these grounds.
He explains that he expects many more such children to be “coming out” in future as the process is made easier.
However, not all Japanese doctors are so enthusiastic about creating infant transsexuals. Other specialists point out that even if the diagnosis is justifiable, there is no guarantee the disorder will persist into adulthood:
“Medically diagnosing children as having gender identity disorder is a dangerous thing. Children are still growing and they do change as a result. I do think any determination must wait until after puberty.”
Parents and schools are also concerned about the adverse effects such extreme treatment may have on the future of their children.
Similar cases of pre-pubescent children being diagnosed as having “the wrong gender” in the UK and elsewhere are also seeing ever younger diagnoses, with some as young as 12 or 9 – there too, many have questioned the wisdom of making drastically life altering decisions for children at such a young age.
Lolicons should be careful who they molest now. Just like in minesweeper.
I find this odd since in all but the most extreme cases anyone under the age of 18 cannot be diagnosed with ANY disorder whatsoever in most settings – there is just too much going on to know what will stick.
Why not just drop the gender-specific uniforms and avoid forcing the choice on them so young? Make gender neutral toilets and lockers, as well, if it’s such a problem.
“Medically diagnosing children as having gender identity disorder is a dangerous thing. Children are still growing and they do change as a result. I do think any determination must wait until after puberty.”
‘there they go again with the old “it’s just a phase and they’ll get over it’
well i wanted to be a girl at 11 now that I’m 18 It wouldn’t have been hell during my schooling years if i attended school as a girl then, now I’m attending school as a girl i still carry the sheer horror of one’s body body turning on one self, o how i wished i could’ve put up with the latest fashions and style my hair back then, but now the only chance of me redeeming my girlhood is to beat the clock and bloom into the girl in my dreams-that-was really-me -not -some-illusion but an essence to fulfill my girlhood as well as my last piece of the puzzle.
The problem with waiting until after puberty is that the longer you wait, the less normal the person will look as the opposite gender.
You can either run the risk of making the wrong call on whether to do the reassignment, or you can ensure that when it is done, it will turn the victim into a freak.
It sucks, and it’s sad.
Well we do need psychics to diagnose if the future of the boy as a tranny is well worth it.
What’s new about this?
I’ve heard of a MTF kindergartner here in the US.