http://www.oprah.com/tows/slide/200405/20040512/tows_slide_20040512_01.jhtml
As a little girl, Kayla preferred playing with dirt to playing with dolls. Around age six, she started wearing boys' clothing like baggy pants and boxers.
Counselors said it was a phase, but Kayla says she felt strongly that she was a boy. Confused about who or what she was, Kayla began failing at school and fighting bitterly with her mother, Angelina. During one explosive argument, Kayla bit and kicked her mother. Angelina called a crisis hotline, and Kayla stayed in a children's hospital for a couple of weeks. After leaving the hospital, Kayla watched an Oprah show about transgendered kids. "A boy was expressing his feelings about being the opposite sex," she recalls. "I knew this is who I was. It was like a miracle."
Kayla then told her mother that she believed she was a boy living in a girl's body. Angelina knew that she needed help, so she found a therapist who specializes in transgender issues.
Jana Ekdahl, a clinical psychotherapist and gender specialist, works with transgender adults and adolescents. She says that one of three things could happen with Dylan: he could grow up to be gay, he could be transgendered, or he could grow out of this behavior.
"If the child is transgendered, they're transgendered. … There's really nothing you can do to change that, nor is there anything you've done to cause that. Frequently parents, especially mothers, think they've done something to cause it. But that's just not true. It occurs in the womb. The research so far shows that it occurs in the first trimester. Something happens whereas the brain develops in one direction and the body develops in another. For instance, for Dylan, it might be that his body was developing as a boy and his brain was developing as a girl. Then he comes out and he looks like a boy. So it's much easier to change the body; we can't change the brain."
As a little girl, Kayla preferred playing with dirt to playing with dolls. Around age six, she started wearing boys' clothing like baggy pants and boxers.
Counselors said it was a phase, but Kayla says she felt strongly that she was a boy. Confused about who or what she was, Kayla began failing at school and fighting bitterly with her mother, Angelina. During one explosive argument, Kayla bit and kicked her mother. Angelina called a crisis hotline, and Kayla stayed in a children's hospital for a couple of weeks. After leaving the hospital, Kayla watched an Oprah show about transgendered kids. "A boy was expressing his feelings about being the opposite sex," she recalls. "I knew this is who I was. It was like a miracle."
Kayla then told her mother that she believed she was a boy living in a girl's body. Angelina knew that she needed help, so she found a therapist who specializes in transgender issues.
Jana Ekdahl, a clinical psychotherapist and gender specialist, works with transgender adults and adolescents. She says that one of three things could happen with Dylan: he could grow up to be gay, he could be transgendered, or he could grow out of this behavior.
"If the child is transgendered, they're transgendered. … There's really nothing you can do to change that, nor is there anything you've done to cause that. Frequently parents, especially mothers, think they've done something to cause it. But that's just not true. It occurs in the womb. The research so far shows that it occurs in the first trimester. Something happens whereas the brain develops in one direction and the body develops in another. For instance, for Dylan, it might be that his body was developing as a boy and his brain was developing as a girl. Then he comes out and he looks like a boy. So it's much easier to change the body; we can't change the brain."
and *HUGS*
I thought he is a male cuz of his screen name "The XandieBoy"..........