20/20 - My Secret Self Pt.4

A report on some of the youngest transgender kids, including a six-year-old girl who was born a boy, a 10-year-old boy who lives as a girl and a 16-year-old-boy who was born a girl. Barbara Walters talks to these transgender children, all diagnosed with gender identity disorder (GID), as well as to their parents, who are allowing their children to live in the gender they identify with in order to save them from a future of heartache and pain. They are sharing their personal stories to increase future understanding of transgendered children.

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Entertainment

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• 2020
• 20/20
• my
• secret
• self
• transgendered
• children
• documentary
• report
• barbara
• GID
• disorder
• identity

[DoomNoMore]

I cannot believe people can be so cruel to such a little child. If you cannot stiop judging and hating, at least keep it for yourself.

[darkstud21]

I think its terrible that her parents make her go to a school where she's taunted daily! Young children can be cruel and they won't understand her situation. No wonder she's developing resentment towards her sister. If her parents really want her to have a shot at a normal life, they should have her start at a new school where nobody knows her.

[kayla17rocks]

Riley is so cute I'm a trans too it's really hard I know myself.you'll get the breast buds that you want trust me

[FtMSebastion]

She is absolutely adorable! She is going to be a total knock-out when she grows up.

[503ttd]

Of all LGBT people, I feel for transpeople the most. Could you imagine feeling as if you were put in the wrong body your whole life? Then people have the audacity to make these people feel even worse about their situation. If everyone just took a second to put themselves in someone else's place, the world would be so much better.

[mrwhitecloud2]

Made some phrasing/writing errors. It's really early for me, and I didn't proofread this before submitting. Whoops.

*Being LGBT doesn't mean you can't have positive relationships with the opposite sex. These relationships are just not sexual (unless the individual in question is bisexual)...

*A lot of transgendered individuals...

[mrwhitecloud2]

(c) relationship should be considered wrong. None of those who object to LGBT are being harmed by their actions. So what if a little boy has the personality and mind of a girl? Gender is a social construct, after all. A lot of the transgender children identify, from a young age, with the opposite gender. They are self-assured, while their parents are shocked. Why is it so threatening? We are all humans. America is supposed to be a nation that supports equality, so why deny the LGBT rights?

[mrwhitecloud2]

@JACKandJILLaok Thank you also for being civil! I apologize for making a wrong assumption.

It's always good to go through self-reflection, as you have, to better understand oneself. But many gay people DO search themselves, and still reach the conclusion that they love another man or woman (or that they identify as the opposite gender). Being LGBT doesn't mean you can't have positive relationships with the opposite sex, just not sexual ones. I don't believe that a positive, supportive (c)

[JACKandJILLaok]

I think, that the idea that one is ''born homosexual'' is just a Red Herring, being put about as a means of avoiding their responsibility to address their mental health issues and why it is, that they are unwilling or unable to have normal relationships with their opposite sex. I know far more about LGBT's than you assume, having known many hundreds, including my own brother and I've had my own issues too in my teens and 20's 1/3

[JACKandJILLaok]

@mrwhitecloud2

It was only through a process of deep self reflection and frank self-affacement, that I was able to understand my own misguided ideas, where they'd come from and the motives of those who had influenced me, hence, I was able to re-align my thinking and adjust my behaviour accordingly. However it seems to me, that most LGBT''s utterly refuse to take responsibility, preferring instead to be swept along by homosexual propaganda.2/3

[JACKandJILLaok]

@mrwhitecloud2 I've heard excuse after excuse espoused by LGBT's, but non stand up to scrutiny, it's a question of denial after denial, therefore it's not surprising their difficulties continue. No one should heap scorn and hate upon those who are suffering, but nor should those who suffer make false unfounded accusations against those who are simply stating their oppinion. Thanks at least for putting your views across in a civil manner.3/3