Comments by "Sam Brockmann" (@SamBrockmann) on "" video.
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I think this is a simple thing. Before you decide to become a parent, realize a few things:
1) Your child will be born (or, in the case of adoption, was already born) with a gender. Male or female. That is all.
2) Your child will not understand sexuality.
3) It is your job as a parent to make your child realize that they were born with a gender. -- There are multiple ways to do this.
4) If your child insists they are the opposite gender than that with which they were born, CORRECT THEM. Simply say to your potential boy child, "No, you are a boy" or to your potential girl child, "No, you are a girl".
5) Just because your girl child likes trucks and GI Joes OR your boy child likes to have tea parties with his older sisters does NOT mean that your child has discovered they are gay or transgender. 100% of the time, this boils down to, "Your child wants to be included". Think of who your child's friends are or think about their siblings, etc. Figure out the whole picture.
6) Your child is not gay or transgender. You're repeating this, Sam?! Yes, I am. Your child doesn't understand sexuality, and it is your job to teach them sexuality /AT AN APPROPRIATE AGE/. It is not your job to suddenly discover at age 3 or 5 or any other time before puberty that your child has discovered what their preference is regarding their own and others' private parts. Yes, that sounds a bit gross, doesn't it? That's because it IS gross to think a prepubescent child has figured out sexuality.
7) If somehow your child does not know what gender they are by the time they are pubescent (oh, and that'd be entirely YOUR AND YOUR CO-PARENTS' FAULT, parents!), then seek mental health treatment for them. Transgenderism is simply gender dysphoria. - SAM, THAT'S SO MEAN! ARE YOU TRANSPHOBIC?! No, because I don't fear transgender people. Non-acceptance is not fear. - Remember that Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current (at the time, the below article is from 2015) Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, arguably one of the top mental health experts in the USA explained this already:
https://cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change
Do NOT normalize gender dysphoria!
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