Under the guise of Kids Help line which is supposed to give assistance to those being bullied at school we have it promoting gender reassignment to those teens not happy with their gender. As a society we outlaw F.G.M but promote gender reassignment which is a radical surgical procedure with physical and emotional complications that cannot be reversed.

http://www.kidshelpline.com.au/teens/get-info/hot-topics/sexuality-and-identity.php

I've read the link and not found any promotion of gendernreassignment, just a paragraph describing its existance. Have I missed something. "Sexual Identity is not the same as identifying as a different gender or feeling like you're in the 'wrong body'.

'Working it out' for some people may be about determining which gender they are. Sometimes people are born feeling they are in the 'wrong body' and may experience themselves to be the opposite sex to their anatomy. Someone born with a female body may feel 'male' or with a male body may feel 'female'. Sometimes people decide to make physical changes to their body through surgery and hormone treatments so that their body aligns with who they are. This is called 'transitioning'. Being transgender/transsexual is not the same as being gay or lesbian. Transgender people can also identify as being heterosexual, gay, lesbian or bisexual. Being transgender is also different to being intersex." Elsewhee in the page it encourages people to take their time and seek help.

My overall impression was of encouragement not to to rush into identifying with a particular label of sexuality based on teenage confusion and experimentation.

R0bert

Gender dysphoria is a real condition but the big teaching hospitals in the U.S have now scrapped their gender reassignment clinics and refer such patients to psychiatrists for treatment.
Gender dysphoria needs to be seen in the same light as other OCD type behaviours and young people who suffer from this disorder need referrals for treatment by professionals, which is what Kids Help Line does.
Encouraging them to act on their delusions and undergo surgery and other treatments is setting them on a path which for the majority leads to further anguish and often suicide, which is why gender re-asignment is deemed un-ethical by many top line medical services.

Dear Josephus,

I read the link you referred to. It just informed people about the different categories and cautioned teenagers not to rush into anything. The website contained:

"Unfortunately there isn't a series of steps you can take or a test you can do to work out your sexuality. Some people work it out quickly while others take a lot longer to work through their feelings and find themselves. There is no rush. Feelings of uncertainty and confusion may be a normal ongoing part of being a teenager while discovering who you are. Sexuality can also be a fluid and changeable thing for some people and not so easy to categorise or label."

The above simply seems sensible advice. Please cite where the website promoted anything.

Whoever wrote and whoever approved its posting of that article for
students should be sacked.
The whole context is that same sex attitudes and activity are normal.

It is not! The simple proof is that such activity cannot result in
procreation. As to being born in the wrong body is nonsense and is
totally at conflict with the DNA.
The physical construction of our bodies is final proof.

No logical opinion to the contrary can possibly exist.

The whole homosexual arena is a fashion !
Indeed a very dangerous fashion.

"The whole homosexual arena is a fashion !"

Its a very long lasting fashion then. It's been in fashion for all of recoded history despite the sick reality that during most of that time it's been accompanied by massive social stigma, death penalties, bashings, torture etc.

It's a fashion that's common not just with humans but across the animal kingdom (as is different sex pair bonding so don't get too excited by the animal bit).

The context is more that sexuality is a tough issue for some made far worse by proponents of hatred. The context is that far too many kids (and adults) don't cope with the conflict between what they are experiencing and some social stigmas unfortunately still pushed by some sad minds and in parts of public discourse.

Sexual activity between adult heterosexual couples where one or both is infertile can't result in procreation either. Would you have those past child bearing years stigmatised for sexual activity that can't result in children?

Is it not enough to accept that sexual intimacy plays more than one role in human interaction, procreation just being one of them and for most of us the overwhelming majority of our sexual encounters will not result in a child.

R0bert