Title: 'I am a girl': The plight of Tammy, the adopted son of two lesbians who started sex change aged 8 because he has always maintained he is a girl Source:
Daily Mail Online URL Source:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... ormone-blocking-treatment.html Published:Sep 29, 2011 Author:John Stevens Post Date:2011-09-29 22:29:04 by Sebastian Keywords:None Views:126677 Comments:212
'As soon as we let him put on a dress his personality changed to a very happy little girl thrilled to be alive'
A boy who started the process of changing sex at age eight has told how he always knew he was meant to be a girl.
Thomas Lobel, who now calls himself Tammy, is undergoing controversial hormone blocking treatment in Berkeley, California to stop him going through puberty as a boy.
His two lesbian mothers, who adopted him aged two, say that they have been criticised by friends and family, but insist they have not forced their son to become a girl.
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Therapy: Thomas Lobel, who now calls himself Tammy, is undergoing controversial hormone blocking treatment
No pressure: The boy's two lesbian adopted mothers, Debra, left, and Pauline, right, say that they have not forced their son to become a girl
They say that one of the first things he told them when he learnt sign language aged three, learned because of a speech impediment, was, 'I am a girl'.
Tammy, now 11, wears dresses and effectively lives as a girl.
His parents, Pauline Moreno and Debra Lobel, say that their son, who they claim was depressed at a younger age and threatened to chop of his own penis, is now much happier.
The couple were married in 1990 by a rabbi, according to Pauline's Facebook page, and have two older sons and grandchildren.
PROUD MOM: Two photos of Tammy from one of Pauline's Facebook albums called 'My Sweet Sweet Princess'
Here is Tammy with her mothers and older brother Edgar at his recent bar mitzvah. Mother Pauline said Tammy was shy and unhappy as a boy when compared to her older, outgoing brothers
Unlike his older brothers who are both described at outgoing and athletic, Thomas liked to read Wonder Woman comic books and play with dolls.
He shunned baseball hats, preferring rhinestone hair accessories.
At age seven, after threatening genital mutilation on himself, therapists and psychiatrists diagnosed Tammy with gender identity disorder.
A year later his parents allowed him to start the first step of his transition to becoming female by letting him pick his own clothes and wear bras.
Tammy favor headbands to baseball hats and picked out bras and dresses to start wearing when given choice in clothing to wear
'As soon as we let him put on a dress, his personality changed from a very sad kid who sat still, didn't do much of anything to a very happy little girl who was thrilled to be alive,' one mother Pauline told CNN.
This summer, Tammy started taking hormone-blocking drugs, which will stop him from experiencing puberty.
The hormone-suppressant will postpone the 11-year-old developing broad shoulders, deep voice and facial hair.The diagnosis has been hard to accept for Tammy's parents, but they insist their sexuality has nothing to do with it.
As Pauline said, people think 'we're pushing her to do this. I'm a lesbian. My partner is a lesbian. That suddenly falls into the fold: "Oh, you want her to be part of the lifestyle you guys live".'
Unhappy: Tammy was adopted aged two by Debra Lobel and Pauline Moreno
But they insist that is not the case and the decision has been difficult.
His parents say the hormone treatment will give him time to figure out if he wants to fully transition to being female or go through puberty as a boy.
If he chooses to stop taking the drugs, he will undergo natural male puberty at a later stage and his future fertility would not be impacted.
Should he decide to transition to an adult female, he can take female hormones as well, which would raise his voice, grow breasts and develop other feminine physical characteristics.
Pauline and Debra have been married since 1990, when they were joined in a commitment ceremony by their rabbi
San Francisco, right by Berkeley, is one of four cities in the United States with a hospital that has a program for transgender children.
The University of California San Francisco is home to the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health.
Children are seen at length by mental health professionals and then treated by pediatric endocrinologists.
Others cities with youth programs are Boston, Seattle and Los Angeles.
My claim is as follows: homosexual acts between humans (as gratifying as those acts may be) cannot and will not result in the furtherance of the species via biological inheritance.
No argument there.
The argument is with the line of thinking that allows (yeah,just like it could be prevented!)heterosexual couples to enjoy recreational sex in private,while denying homosexual couples this same right,and then basing your prejudices on the fact that homosexual couples can't reproduce.
I am NOT saying this is what YOU think. I am saying this seems to be what a lot of people on the anti-homosexual bandwagon seem to think.
I have no particular love for homosexuals or the "homosexual lifestyle",but this is America,and ALL Americans have the same legal RIGHTS. If the government can get away with using their power to arrest or fine homosexuals for having sex,the government also has the same authority to arrest heterosexuals for having sex.
We are either all free,or none of us is free.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
"Then you might wish to cite the medical case where human homosexual activity has resulted in pregnancy."
I already have. It's very common for homosexual couples to add to the ranks of people willing to give good homes to kids that need them. They also use surrogate means to create children other then the ones they may of had with an opposite gender partner.
This is a pointless dance on the point of a needle by you as you pick on one way people can be together who do not have the means to bear young. Unless you are a proponent of having means testing to prove fertility for bearing young and prohibiting all others to not be married, you are wasting my time with this foolish argument.
It's more than that,it has always been a communist enclave within the US. Is it Eugene or Portland that has a city park with statues of prominent communists that helped overthrow the Czar?
Statues? We have the venerable Rosa Parks in the city bus mall downtown. Eugene Skinner who gave Eugene and Skinner's Butte their names by being the city founder in the 1850s and 60s. We have a statue of Ken kesey at broadway and Willamette Street, which is ground zero in Eugene.
And at the Lane County Courthouse is Wayne Lyman Morse in the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza. He was a man who served oregon in the Senate well as both a Republican and a Democrat.
most notibly he voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution getting us deeply ensconced into the Vietnam War.
his ranch is also a city park and is where wild animal rehabilitation takes place locally.
The only city museum though is the Sheldon McMurphy Johnson house build by Dr. Shelton on the foot to Skinner's butte in 1888 to replace his first Queen Ann's lace residence which was burned down by disgruntaled workers.
he was one of the founders of the Knights of the Golden Order and was very racist, believing non whites should not be allowed perminant residence in Oregon.
On the Butte used to be a huge Cross which Eugene Sand and Gravel had put up in the early 60s to replace the series of wooden ones that initially were meant to warn African Americans, Chinese ethnic and other non whites not to hand around should they rail road into the Eugene Rail Station.
The cross overlooked that. Prominant local lawyer and former District 4 Representative to the U.S. House of Representatives Charlie Porter lead a long fight that eventually got thhe cross removed as a religious icon that did not belong on public land.
that is the long and short of Eugene statues and the like. Except for the other expectibles like the generic Pioneer Woman seated in her 1800s finery at the University of Oregon which also has a couple more that are just blurs in my brain housing group.
"Yes, it does. It ALSO protects the majority from the whims and caprices of minorities.
Somehow you and the other leftists always seem to overlook THAT."
A small religious minority is more in danger of a large one, and the Constitution addresses that. The majorities often have more then enough means to defend themselves and to flourish. The Constitution in this sense just levels the playing feild and makes things fairer for all.
You don't believe that,or you wouldn't support shit like the Civil Wrongs Act of 1964,busing,minority preferences in hiring and promotions,quotas,affirmative action,etc,etc,etc.
I support and have supported Civil Right Legislation, and preferences were meant to be a temperary measure to help make up for some of the injustices of the past. You may not agree with this point of view, which is your right.
I also support further legislation to help protect people against bigotry directed at homosexuals, transgendered folks and other people who get turned into wedge issues.
And that sort of support is not limited to people on the left side of the political spectrum, it is a great place for righties to reside too.
"Special protections from what? Being legislated against?"
'Special protection' has been the code words for fight for the status quo since the start of the Civil Rights Movement.
We had the Oregon Citizen's Alliance rehash that in their unsuccessful attempts to criminalized and oppress gays, Lesbians and the Transgendered in Oregon in recent decades, and this deceptive labelling of actions that fight the hatred and oppression such as Sebastian and others enjoy to support will always be popular with them.
Must be Portland,then. One of the statues they have is of an American doctor from Portland that was Stalin's personal physician,and who went to Russia to help fight the Revolution there. He was played by Warren Beatty in the movie "Reds".
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
A small religious minority is more in danger of a large one, and the Constitution addresses that. The majorities often have more then enough means to defend themselves and to flourish. The Constitution in this sense just levels the playing feild and makes things fairer for all.
Nice spin. All those words and you STILL manage to ignore the rights of the majority while still defending the special un-Constitutional "rights" of minorities.
DOES the majority have the same rights as minorities or not,and if they don't HOW can you justify special laws promoting women when they are a majority?
I support and have supported Civil Right Legislation, and preferences were meant to be a temperary measure to help make up for some of the injustices of the past.
Uh,huh. I suspect those laws will end once whites become a minority,since they were never about anything other than holding whites back from the start.
I guess you feel good about that?
I also support further legislation to help protect people against bigotry directed at homosexuals, transgendered folks and other people who get turned into wedge issues.
M0RE leftist bullshit. They are ALREADY protected by the Constitution. What you and the other leftists want is SPECIAL protection given to them.
And that sort of support is not limited to people on the left side of the political spectrum, it is a great place for righties to reside too.
WRONG! Those of us on the right support EQUAL treatment for all citizens,but do NOT support "special rights". You can NOT give one class of citizens special rights without trampling on the rights of the other citizens.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
HOW can you justify special laws promoting women when they are a majority?
I've followed this thread with interest and, at times amusement as you fall over each other trying to "define" words.
The "majority" to the Framers had nothing to do with raw numbers and everything to do with WHO COULD CONTROL THE LAWS AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM. It's why they rejected democracy, or "majority" rule, and opted for a system of both proportionate representation - the House - and disproportionate, yet co-equal, representation - The Senate as the means for law making.
Our whole system was designed to be one of consensus in which the majority would prevail WITHOUT trampling or diminishing the rights of the minority.
Do you get it? MAJORITY being the consensus that emerged and prevailed. MINORITY being those who were not part of the process or who did not prevail.
And while I can accept the argument that the Framers never anticipated a society in which gays and lesbians could live openly, they were wise enough to craft a system that allowed FUTURE generations to determine what laws, protections and immunities were necessary to their CONTEMPORANEOUS needs.
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Us on the real right consider you as somewhat of a leftist. You would redefine words to give the homos a special right to change meanings of words.
"Us on the real right..."???? Give me a bleeping break! There is NO way you can be a religious freak and be a right-winger. Christianity INVENTED leftism,and Marx recognized it as his greatest competition.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Do you get it? MAJORITY being the consensus that emerged and prevailed. MINORITY being those who were not part of the process or who did not prevail.
So,what are you trying to say? Are you saying that the the typical Dim voter is now the majority and that things are as they should be because ignorant people and even dead people vote Dim consistently?
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
You and your homo propaganda isn't fooling anyone freakypete. Lefty.
LOL!
There is no need for me to fool you. You have fooled yourself into thinking you are a conservative,even though you think there should be different classes of citizens with different rights.
Mussolini,Hitler,Stalin,Mao,and Castro all agree with you,not me.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
"There is no need for me to fool you. You have fooled yourself into thinking you are a conservative,even though you think there should be different classes of citizens with different rights."
You have the root of his problem; an addiction to hatred. Stone has dehumanized in his mind anyone who doesn't love in the party line of his version of religion.
Even someone who is beyond any doubt a conservative, if you refuse to dehumanize someone he hates like they were a demon and a different species.
He is hard to put up with. I feel sorry for him, but that only goes so far. I have pretty much had enough of his crap.
If people like yo were not here, I wouldn't be here anymore at all.
He did the same crap in 4UM he does here, but he can't play respectful or nice, so he gets banned most places because he is so hard to tolerate. If he didn't have his own pop stand here, the poor tyke would be virtually without a forum to go to.
When I was a little boy, I loathed black people and fat people like they were the devil incarnate. I remember one horrible occasion where I made a cafeteria wide scene crying and pouting because I was forced to sit next to a very overweight girl.
Yiu see, I was reflexting my Mom's disease of bigotry and hatred. When I got older I started reading books by Richard Wright, John Howard Griffin, and many other accounts of people who triumphed over the hatred of bigotry and I healed.
There is one man I can never get his face out of my head from my Army days. He was a friend who worked in PAC and was one of those typewriter commandos who actually went the extra mile to searve people well who needed administration actions, record and other work done.
He had been promoted ahead of his peers and I got to kow him well enough to be invited over to his trailer in Raeford, N.C. It was eye opening to have a group of friends like that who helped distroy my last remaning bigotry toward homosexual people.
No one in his circle who were gay ever went beyond checking where my head was at and my sexuality was very much respected. I came to realize my dislike of gays was also an affactation. It remained long after I should of known better then to hate because like other hetreosexual boys and men, I absolutely did not want any harrassment or mistake made about my sexuality.
I lreaned my hatred was based on my fear of the people who viewed themselves as the enforcer of homophobia. Once I learned homosexuals were no different then other folks, I no longer feared or hated a sexual imprinting of their's that affects no one adversely.
I no longer hare who speeps with who as long as they are consenting, and not related biologically too close.
He was outted by someone who picked the lock on his personal briefcase and eavesdropped on personal mail he had in it from his boyfriend.
I remember seeing him after he was forced to move back into the barracks, was busted to E-1 and was bullied unmercify by the baiters and haters with mindsets like stone.
He didn't deserve what he got, and it made a huge impression on me.
Which is why when the idiot here tried to bait me as possiblt being gay or whatever, I ignore him knowing he's responsible to handle his own hatred, and it can't infect me or hurt me anymore.
Now the only time I hate a gay guy or lesbian is if they steal, lie, or are a general scoundrel and SOB anyway. If they function well in society, have a good job and care about their community at large, then what they do in their own bedroom does not bother me in the least.
Whom they love ain't my affair or business.
Stone can keep on using his religion as an excuse, but he does not fool me. His hatred and intolerence is a disease that has no real standing even in the Christian faith. And one can be conservative and gay or lesbian or not bigotted against them.
Maybe he'll wake up and realize this one day. I sure hope so, but I'm sure glad I don't have to put up with the SOB live and in person in my home city.
And there it is. All the other words you wrote were filler,and the ones above are the hard core of reality.
Beyond that,it makes not one bit of difference at all who anyone,including you,I,or Stone,likes or dislikes because ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS. MY rights are NOT dependent of your approval,any more than YOUR rights are dependent on MY approval. If they did,they would be permissions,not rights.
It ain't even about liking or hating someone or even liking and hating their politics because all that is irrelevant. None of us are required to like anybody despite the PC police being out in full force everywhere you go trying to insist we all MUST think the same.
What we are ALL required to do by the US Constitution is to accept that other American citizens have the same rights WE have,and you have to be a total fucking idiot to not be able to recognize the indisputable FACT that if we ain't all free,NONE of us are free. ANY government that has the authority to tell homosexuals what kind of sex they CAN'T have also has the authority to tell thee and me what kind of sex we MUST have.
It boggles the imagination that people can't see something that blindingly obvious. It ain't like it hasn't be proven over and over all through history.
Probably the most famous example is "I didn't protest when they came to take the Jews away because I wasn't a Jew......".
Whether some people like it or not,we are all passengers on the same boat. With all that implies.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
When I was a little boy, I loathed black people and fat people like they were the devil incarnate. I remember one horrible occasion where I made a cafeteria wide scene crying and pouting because I was forced to sit next to a very overweight girl.
I'm with ya, dude.
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Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
#171. To: Ferret Mike, sneakypete, A K A Stone (#162)
I lreaned my hatred was based on my fear of the people who viewed themselves as the enforcer of homophobia. Once I learned homosexuals were no different then other folks, I no longer feared or hated a sexual imprinting of their's that affects no one adversely.
Mike, I admire your peace and love approach to life....well, mostly. You mean well. HOWEVER, your hatred of Tea Party/Conservative folk is your one exemption of your Life's Rule. Oh btw - homosexuals ARE different than other folks, and so are transvestites and transgendered people. VERY different.
Moreover, your acceptance and blind obedience for the queer militancy movement is obvious. Yes, there ARE militants and "enforcers" *of* that movement as well. Even you inferred some kind of stereotypical "southern sheriff-like" retribution in this thread for those who demonstrate "homophobic" behavior in Eugene. What an effed up place it must be. Geez....
Stone can keep on using his religion as an excuse, but he does not fool me. His hatred and intolerence is a disease that has no real standing even in the Christian faith.
The gay militancy and entitlement is what Stone hates. I can relate. WTH must we be compelled to "tolerate" gay militancy? The gay Nazis don't want "tolerance," they *demand* respect. Nope, ain't happening.
You unfortunately support this retributive war, hatred and entitlement by gays - which is the same retributive war, hatred and entitlement ALL the "minority" tribes and groups demand these days. The focal point of their guns and convenient bogeyman "oppressor" of their respective fascism is white/Christian/Euro/hetero society.
This is about....POWER. Not equality. NOT "rights."
"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama
"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama
You've nailed in in this thread; War and his selectively-tolerant Leftist brethren aren't not exactly interested in the truth of the matter. He and they are just stoking the fires of their anarchical socialist wet-dream uprising of misfits, freaks, and mutants. ANY-thing that bolsters their warped vision of a total cluster-FUBAR America.
"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama
Doesn't give you that familiar sense of comfort of home because there's not enough pee on the floor?
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"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama
Eugene is a university town and was an enclave for the counterculture that has molded it's character and the flavor of life here quite a bit.
IOW, it's a socialist, parasitic diseased cuckoo's nest of mental cases, poly-sexuals, new age freaks, and anti-family misfits who publicly urinate on the normal, traditional, and sane.
How does a Eugene resident remain sane in that environment?
"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama