A disorder is something that's wrong and needs to be addressed. Calling it something besides a "disorder" doesn't change what it is.
There is no disorder that calls for being indulged instead of treated.
It's amazing what simple, obvious things people can manage not to understand.
A 5-year-old child with large dark eyes, full lips and a button nose stares out from the front page of the Washington Post Sunday edition. "Transgender at Five" declares the provocative headline. The child's hair is being cut in a close boy's cut by her father.
We learn from the article that "Tyler," who was born "Kathryn," began insisting that she was a boy at the age of 2. "'I am a boy' became a constant theme in struggles over clothing, bathing, swimming, eating, playing, breathing." The child's parents, at first uneasy and later accepting of their girl's desire to be...
I happen to enjoy my faults as an individual. It irritates liberals.
Physical afflictions are easier to identify then mental afflictions.