Go ahead and bully

[vaneramos]

Toronto psychiatrist Joseph Berger, M.D., advocates school bullying as a valid therapy to discourage sexual variance in children:

I suggest, indeed, letting children who wish go to school in clothes of the opposite sex -- but not counselling other children to not tease them or hurt their feelings. On the contrary, don't interfere, and let the other children ridicule the child who has lost that clear boundary between play-acting at home and the reality needs of the outside world. Maybe, in this way, the child will re-establish that necessary boundary.

This statement on the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality website appears in response to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about a private Oakland school that is throwing out gender boundaries. I wonder whether there is basis for action against a Canadian doctor inciting this kind of hatred.

Comments

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

Possibly, I know there is a College of Physicians. I do recall there being a complaint process, from when my grandfather's Dr contributed to his death by prescribing the wrong medication.

[rfmcdpei.livejournal.com]

Charming man, I'm sure. And he's licensed?

[moonkop.livejournal.com]

What does a psychiartist know? So far they have all been wrong!

[shawnsyms.livejournal.com]

Grrr.

(I was writing a big long comment about this guy, but I think "Grrr" captures it.)

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

Lordy! Aside from the fact that kids get bullied for being the 'wrong' height, weight or color...aren't we talking about a group of people who refuse to go to bed or eat vegetables and complain when siblings cross over onto "their" side of the car? Why should we allow children to decide what's appropriate clothing?

Besides, isn't this weighted rather heavily towards boys?

[ghostsandrobots.livejournal.com]

Assholes with diplomas.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

what ziggy said.

[bear-left.livejournal.com]

That's absolutely outrageous. NARTH has a "distinguished" history in the field of trying to "cure" homosexuality (& presumably bisexuality and transgenderism too), as you may well already know. I don't know enough about Canadian law to know such incitements to hatred would or wouldn't be protected, but I'd think there's probably some LGBT resources in Toronto that could answer this question. The damage that these groups do, cloaking their hatred in pseudoscience, is just devastating.

[that-dang-otter.livejournal.com]

I'm fascinated by the phrase "that clear boundary between play-acting at home and the reality needs of the outside world".

I wasn't aware that gender-specific dress was a "reality need".

What the hell does that mean?

[eloquentwthrage.livejournal.com]

I think that a lot of this is nonsense and is being pushed by people who have an agenda to disrupt society in order to further some perverted goals such as the acceptance of pedophilia, and, of course, the attempted "normalization" of homosexuality.

(head explodes)

[bezigebij.livejournal.com]

Wow, that makes me furious! Isn't it our responisibilty to teach our children to respect and appreciate eachother's differences?

I taught for a couple of months at a school here in a 4th grade class in which a boy named Thomas was a student. In all ways accept anatomically, Thomas was girl and the children treated him as such. He changed for gym in the girls' locker room, giggled with the girls during recess and drew princesses with glitter. Thomas' parents allowed him to choose his own clothes and he wore his hair shoulder length with a head band. I was so impressed by the whole situation because this is how it should be. Thomas was not at all insecure about who he was or who he should be because his environment accepted him fully as who he was. It allowed him to deveop his own identity as he saw fit. Noone made fun of Thomas. Noone even thought it was strange or different; it was just Thomas and Thomas had always been a girl.