Excellent point Wobbles :-)

Runner, what about the gay and gender confused kids of married, heterosexual couples?
Given the much smaller numbers of gay parents out there, one can logically conclude that the bulk of these people are born to heterosexual parents.

If as you seem to suggest, some of the dreadful 'fatherless' households are responsible for these gay and gender confused kids, then why aren't they ALL 'causing' these 'abominations?

Could it be that people are actually BORN that way, given that gay and gender confused kids can be born to ANY family?
It's quite a simple question really. No vileness intended...

We do it every time.
We take sides based not on best interests of the child but our ideas about sex.
About politics, about left or right.

First not mum and mums rights, not an issue.
The Child's rights are the issue.
And this Child is too young to make a choice.
Yes, like it or not same sex couples will continue to exist.
We have no real right to other than let them.
And they must see to the child's best interests not theirs.
While much is unknown age is not.
It is far too early, for this Child .
And, like it or not those closer must look after its interests.

Pelican,how can things run thier natural cause,in an un natural environment?

Belly,

The point of the therapy is to buy time so the child can make the decision when he's a little older. It gives doctors/psychologists time to assess whether it's a genuine case or something else.

They accept he is too young to make such a decision, and this gives him time before the onset of puberty, which is usually a very traumatic experience for people with this condition.

Suseonline

Do you consider that women who have been married and had children and then decided they were lesbians in their 50's were born that way. Some people think that they are born predisposed to wanting sex with animals or children. They have a choice whether they carry this through. Again you are being deliberately naive not to see that denying giving this child a father as well as being brought up in an unnatural relationship can't help but to pervert the poor kids view of life. Welfare dependant kids often learn from their parents, belief or non belief in God is often learn't from parents, morals or lack of them are modelled by parents. To castrate a boy brought up by lesbians at the age of 11 is a sick result of very sick public policy. The selfishness of these woman should not of over riden the rights of the poor child.

Runner,

Chances are this child was the product of IVF, so he wouldn't even be born if it wasn't for these two ladies. Not having a father is not too much of a trade off over being alive.