Confused Sexual Identity

An article in this morning's newspaper sort of upset me.  It was the story of a very young boy whose parents are divorced.  The little boy likes pink and girl's toys so the mother encourages him to wear girl's clothing and refers to him as "her".  The father burnt the girl's clothing.

If this isn't a little boy who will grow up to have huge mental issues, I don't know what is.  Both parents are screwballs, making a young boy make monumental decisions about his sexual identity based on the child's choices of toys and color.  How ridiculous!

I was a major player in the lives of my grandsons and saw how some enjoyed playing with dolls.  So what?  Their father and grandfather were repelled by the idea but all my boys grew up to be heterosexual men.  My daughter loved playing with toy cars and trucks and she's a heterosexual woman.  A child's choice of toys or colors does not have anything to do with their sexual identity but, if a parent makes a big deal out of it, it will confuse the child so they don't know what the heck they are.

It's true that most parents begin early to push our little girls to play with feminine toys.  We push our little boys to play with more masculine toys.  If left to their own choices, children will simply choose what looks like more fun for them.

Also in today's newspaper, there is a large billboard showing a half naked person (sex undefined), put there to make us all aware of people who are neither male nor female.  Do we really need this or are we having it shoved down our throats by a small minority of people who can't decide what their sexual identity is going to be?

I don't much care about the adults who want to live as a different sex from the one they were born with but I do worry about the influence that mother has on her little boy.  It seems there's no way she won't confuse the hell out of that child and he's the one who will grow up to suffer the consequences.  My heart does go out to his father who is in a no-win situation.

Bruce Jenner's sexual identity change has made the news as though it's a wonderful thing he is doing.  Crap!  He's not a woman no matter how much cosmetic surgery or make-up he has.  He's a man who feels he'll be happier living as a pseudo-woman.  Good for him...but it's not normal.  Jenner is an adult who is free to make this choice but the little boy in question is a child under the possibly destructive care of his parents.

People are too quick to jump on bandwagons and might take a little boy's preference for the color pink as a sign he's really a little girl in a boy's body.  So very sad and so very stupid.  I hope so much that little boy survives his crazy parents but he's going to need some kind of counseling to do it.