It even happens here. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough is populated mostly by traditional, straightforward folks, but like any area, we have our outliers. At an unnamed town in the Mat-Su, an elementary school (unnamed due to the ongoing legal case and the fact that a child is involved) was persuaded to designate one bathroom as "gender-neutral," but that wasn't enough for the parents of a "gender-confused" child, nor was it enough for the Alaska ACLU, who is suing the school district to allow this girl to use the boy's bathroom.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska sued the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District on Wednesday, alleging that a girl in the district who identifies as a boy and is called a “transgender boy” in the lawsuit, is being prevented from using boys bathrooms and locker rooms at school.
The ACLU of Alaska represents a “set of parents bringing the case on behalf of their transgender son. Under this policy, every day, their child faces mental and physical challenges because he is denied access to the boys’ bathrooms, even though he is a boy.”
The ACLU is arguing that if a child says he or she is something, the world must agree and accommodate.
According to the Alaska ACLU, then, if a child says he or she is a ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on rye bread, the world must accommodate their desire to be smeared with mustard and placed on a buffet table next to the dill pickles. At some point we all, as normal, thinking people, have to just hold up a hand and say "No, this is just too silly." In this case, the school did offer a "gender-neutral" bathroom; in any sane world, that should have been far enough.
The child's history is interesting, too. And it raises a few questions:
According to the ACLU, X.A. always thought of herself as a boy, cut off all of her hair when she was age 3, and renamed herself to a masculine name when she was 7 years old. She “threw fits if anyone tried to get him to wear anything stereotypically girly: pink, rainbows, sparkles, and the like,” according to the ACLU.
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How does a 3-year-old determine that she is "transgender?" It's a safe bet she didn't cut off all her hair; did her parents do it for her? Are her parents encouraging her in this delusion?
It's a safe bet that this child would not have ever considered herself to be a "transgender boy" were it not for her parents. A three-year-old child has no real understanding of sex (or the nebulously-defined "gender" as defined by transgender activists) and can't be taken seriously when they do take such ideas into their heads. Case in point: When our oldest kid was three, she decided she was a cat and demanded to be fed in a bowl on the floor. We didn't allow that, of course, and had her sit at the table and eat like a person, but for an entire summer, she insisted she was a cat and careered around the house on her hands and knees, meowing.
She outgrew it. You know, like a normal child does. Would the ACLU have demanded we give in to her and fed her from a bowl on the floor? And, assuming this Alaska girl did demand a haircut at age three, normal parents would have done the same thing we did with our daughter, and like our daughter, she would have outgrown this. But having a "transgender" child is a brag point in some circles, and it would not be surprising to learn that this girl's parents encouraged the behavior, and now they are seeking to force the Matanuska-Susitna school district to comply.
Is this really anything other than narcissism?
According to one study, narcissistic personality disorders are common among transgender individuals seeking gender surgery. “The frequency of personality disorders was 81.4%. The most frequent personality disorder was narcissistic personality disorder (57.1%) and the least was borderline personality disorder. The average number of diagnoses was 3.00 per patient,” according to the study published by the National Institutes of Health.
In this case, it sure seems like the narcissistic personality disorder applies to the parents.
Parents, of course, have the right to raise their children as they think best, barring abuse; it is unclear just what steps they have taken to "transition" this child, although there is no mention of hormone treatment or surgery. However, parents who are pursuing an agenda should not be seeking to force the community at large to cater to their delusions. That's a bridge too far, and hopefully, these parents and the Alaska ACLU will be slapped down in court.
Enough is enough.
