According to transgender speaker,Aidan Keyes and psychotherapists, kids are dealing with gender identity crisis at an earlier age. Gender identity crisis is described as a child or adult not feeling comfortable in the biological gender they are, who are actually transgender, males or females trapped in the body of the opposite gender. I find this skeptical if not another way the lesbian,gay community is trying to push the normalization of homosexuality through 'tolerance' education.

While I do not support bullying or hate speech in any way,I also do not believe in teaching our children to compromise principles which they are raised by and come naturally, such as the biological gender of their peers. Children should not have to second guess whether their male friends or female friends are boys or girls. This should be obvious based on social and biological norms. What children need to be taught is respect for all and the Golden Rule, "do unto others as you would have done unto you." That is what bullying education should be based on, not acceptance of homosexuality or gender identity issues, race, etc. Bottom line is that parents and schools should focus on respect towards others&personal responsibility. For some reason society has been for too long been focusing on diversity and tolerance and 'multiculturalism'  to the point that our countries founding values and culture are becoming lost.



 Transgender speaker Aidan Keyes,  grew up as a girl and as an adult had a mastectomy and later married another women, despite not having a sex change operation.

At 19, Bonnie came out as a lesbian, thinking she'd finally figured it out. Living in Seattle at the time, she found a close-knit community of lesbians, fell in love and later, with her partner, had a daughter. As the nonbiological mother, she adopted the child.

"When I was your age," he tells them, "I was a girl.
"Everybody saw me as a girl and I looked like a girl. But inside that's not how I felt. I felt I was a boy, so when I got older I worked with a doctor. We call that being transgender."

Lisa Love, health-education specialist with Seattle Public Schools, said the district is seeing more children in elementary schools struggling with gender identity.
And over the last decade or so, the parents of a growing number of these kids have sought guidance from Seattle Children's hospital, the associate director of psychiatry there said.
Experts say young children have always had these feelings, but only in recent years as society has become more accepting of gender differences have they felt more free to express them.[my emphasis]

Public- and private-school administrators and the parents of these kids want guidance navigating such sensitive terrain; they want to help children become comfortable calling a classmate by a new name, or know how and when to refer to another student as he or she...

between 20 and 30 percent of children who display persistent cross-gender preferences grow up to be transgender adults.

Most recently the story of five-year old Dyson Kilodavis made the headlines, in which his mom wrote a book about their families journey and acceptance of their son's desire to wear frilly clothes and girls jewelry. From King5.com in Seattle:

The Kilodavis family talks about how they came to accept and embrace their son, five year-old Dyson, who likes to dress up like a princess. Cheryl Kilodavis authored a book called "My Princess Boy" which Dyson's school now uses as an anti-bullying tool.

In this video it seems as though the psychiatrist is saying there is more than one way to be a boy and a girl&equating 'tom boy' behavior in girls to cross dressing in boys??

What do you think? Do you believe there are children who naturally grow up one gender and somehow mentally are wired to be another gender?

I can see kids role playing and adults doing such things as a joke or prank or for a costume party, but I just don't see it being a natural disorder and one we should encourage. I feel it is connected to the acceptance of homosexuality in the media and other places that children are exposed to this behavior. I feel it is more a behavioral issue rather than a biological condition. While some experts and  parents claim redirection is not always successful in these cases, and that we should love and accept our children no matter how they turn out, this does not mean we should accept nor condone behavior that is unnatural and unacceptable morally.





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This is great news for premature babies and those with high risk pregnancies who find themselves having to deliver early. I'm glad to see that the Gates feel the need to help premature infants;it's too bad they also support abortion&population control programs around the world too.

Seattle Children's Research Institute Receives $2.3 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to complete development of affordable respiratory support device
SEATTLE, Aug. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Seattle Children's Research Institute today announced the receipt of a two-year, $2.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to complete prototype development of its new respiratory support device, called Seattle Children's Positive Airway Pressure (Sea-PAP.) Sea-PAP, designed to be an affordable and simple Bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (B-CPAP) device, will provide breathing support to premature infants who suffer from respiratory distress. Upon completion, Sea-PAP will be significantly cheaper to produce, operate, and maintain than other ventilators and respiratory support devices.
Children's expects the affordability of Sea-PAP will lead to rapid adoption in the developing world and beyond. The simple design shrinks the cost to a fraction of the $30,000 price tag for conventional ventilators, making Sea-PAP and its life-saving therapy accessible to healthcare systems that lack the resources to purchase and operate complex, expensive equipment.
"The worldwide need for low-cost, safe, and easy to use respirator technology is clear. Many premature infants who require only basic assistance with their breathing die for a lack of a simple, affordable alternative to expensive ventilators," said Charles V. Smith, PhD, Director of the Center for Developmental Therapeutics at Seattle Children's Research Institute, and co-inventor of Sea-PAP. "Sea-PAP's low cost and ease of use will make it accessible to all."
More than four million infants worldwide die each year, and one million of those deaths are attributed to respiratory insufficiency, suffocation due to underdeveloped lungs. These deaths are largely attributed to the lack of respiratory support devices in resource-limited countries. Children's estimates that Sea-PAP could save the lives of many thousands of these babies each year, if broadly adopted.
"Cost of technology should not be the deciding factor for which life is saved. Sea-PAP will provide more communities, even in the most rural areas, with the tools to save premature infants with respiratory distress," said Thomas N. Hansen, MD, CEO at Children's and co-inventor of Sea-PAP. "If we could even make a dent of a few percentage points in infant mortality rates, the impact would be staggering."

 

Preterm birth is the 7th leading U.S.healthcare expenditure today, costing approximately $26 billion a year. A simple tool like Sea-PAP could also help address the financial burden that prematurity brings to healthcare.

Benefits of Simplified Technology and Other Key Differentiators
What differentiates Sea-PAP from most other respiratory support devices is that it is simpler to assemble and maintain, thus enabling a low cost of ownership. To build and operate Sea-PAP, only a small tool kit of supplies are needed, including a continuous air supply, a breathing circuit tube, a tube for the nose, water, and a competent human operator. The breathing and nose tubes can be used multiple times, if sterilized.

Sea-PAP works like conventional B-CPAP devices providing a continuous flow of air via tubes inserted in an infant's nostrils. Sea-PAP's key differentiator from other B-CPAP devices is that its breathing circuit tube is placed in water at a 135 degree slope, which creates fluctuations in the positive airway pressure. These fluctuations keep the lungs open, which lessens the work required from respiratory muscles, thus making it easier to breathe.
Respiratory muscle exhaustion is a major cause of failure in conventional B-CPAP therapy. These failures often necessitate the need for tracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, and exposure of the infant to high concentrations of oxygen, which carry the risk of tissue damage, infection, and inflammation - all of which are major factors in the development of chronic lung disease. By reducing the work that an infant has to do to breathe, Sea-PAP will eliminate the need for tracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation in many infants.
"Removing the cost barriers of life saving respiratory support technology ensures more infants have a chance at a healthy life," said Gary Darmstadt, Director of Family Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "We are excited for the completion of Sea-PAP, as we believe it will have a significant impact on reducing infant mortality rates worldwide."

Commercialization Timeline and Continued Development Plans
Children's expects to complete development of Sea-PAP in 2012, and for commercial distribution to begin in 2013.
Ongoing development will be led by Dr. Hansen, Dr. Smith, and C. Peter Richardson, PhD, (co-inventor), who have been working together on various respiratory care initiatives since the 1980s. Other collaborators on the project include: Robert M. DiBlasi, RRT-NPS, FAARC (co-inventor); Kathleen D. Bongiovanni, MIPH, MS; Christopher R. Howard, MBA; Jack Hildebrandt, PhD; and John Walton.
Sea-PAP can also work in conjunction with the Hansen Ventilator, a separate respiratory device prototype the Children's team is developing, named after Dr. Hansen. If used together, even more premature infants with respiratory distress could be saved.
"Sea-PAP by itself is the quickest and cheapest way we can save thousands of infants with respiratory distress," said Dr. Hansen. "If used in conjunction with the Hansen Ventilator, that number could increase substantially. We hope to have the combined offering in market later in this decade."
The Hansen Ventilator is being developed by the same team working on Sea-PAP. More on the Hansen Ventilator can be found at: http://seattlechildrens.org/healthcare-professionals/aar/2010/highlights/high-hopes-for-low-tech-ventilator/

About Seattle Children's Research Institute
At the forefront of pediatric medical research, Seattle Children's Research Institute is setting new standards in pediatric care and finding new cures for childhood diseases. Internationally recognized scientists and physicians at the Research Institute are advancing new discoveries in cancer, genetics, immunology, pathology, infectious disease, injury prevention and bioethics. With Seattle Children's Hospital and Seattle Children's Hospital Foundation, the Research Institute brings together the best minds in pediatric research to provide patients with the best care possible. Children's serves as the primary teaching, clinical and research site for the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, which consistently ranks as one of the best pediatric departments in the country. For more information, visit http://www.seattlechildrens.org/research.
CONTACT:
Kathy Porada
206-987-4500
press@seattlechildrens.org
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This is an interesting study I came across today. It discusses how the onset of male sexual maturity,like girls, occurs earlier since the mid 1700's and that the rise in testosterone and risk taking behaviors marks the point of sexual maturity and  when the male voice changes. However, it must be noted, sexual maturity does not equate to emotional maturity.

So, based on this study, parents should become more involved in their teens sexual awareness and begin teaching them the "birds&bees"&self respect and control of ones emotions&body. Parents should encourage abstinence to prevent their hormonal urges from getting them into unsafe situations, such as premarital sex.

Girls have been known to reach sexual maturity at younger ages through the centuries, but what about their male counterparts?

Researcher Joshua Goldstein at the Max Planck Institute in Germany believes he found a similar trend among maturing boys. In fact, he puts forth that males may be influenced by the same environmental factors that shape the onset of menstruation in girls, according to an analysis published in the journal PLoS ONE.

Finding trends among girls is easy since there's a starting point to sexual maturity: menarche, or when a young woman experiences her first menstrual cycle. For teen boys, however, a similar starting point isn't as clear.

Universally, male adolescents have experienced a rise of mortality toward the end of their teen years -- a trend known as the "accident hump." Whether it's from disease, violence or mere accident, more male adolescents die during late adolescence than their female peers. Even more, this peak also matches the time when male teens produce the most testosterone. The idea is that more testosterone equates to more risk-taking and potentially violent behaviors, which in some instances result in accidental deaths.
But since the mid-18th century, the accident hump has curiously occurred earlier and earlier in male adolescence. As such, an earlier accident hump may reflect a change in testosterone, and thus, when males are becoming sexually mature.

Sure, the association between mortality and hormones seems indirect, and Goldstein acknowledges this in his paper. But it's the other relationship -- between teens' environment and biology -- that's more direct and may account for the changes. 

By looking at 10-year periods of data from the Human Mortality Database from five European countries, Goldstein found the age at which males sexually mature to decrease by 2.4 months per decade between the mid-1700s and 1900s. Though other indicators of maturity, including height, don't necessarily support maturing earlier, one study on male voice changes reveals the onset of sexual maturity to occur earlier throughout the decades.

Most recently, the drop in age for sexual maturity seems to have plateaued. Instead, Goldstein's work reinforces the idea that the decrease occurred in the first place.

So why wouldn't other evolutionary factors select against risk-taking behaviors associated with the accident hump?
Goldstein speculates that risk-taking can reflect dominance, which may bolster males' mating status in certain primate species (think baboons).

Still, there's reason to be cautious about the findings. For one, the data might be affected by how they were collected. The results also rely on a variety of associations, and other factors that don't show up in historical demographic data might be at play. The current project also focused on more developed European countries, and the same trends might not be apparent in other parts of the world.

But ultimately, the results leave a gap between sexual maturity and emotional maturity in both sexes, Goldstein says in a press release. Parents may be encouraged to be more involved in their teens' lives in order to guide them against having unprotected or risky sex.

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Source: Discovery News.


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BLOG: Wikipedia Has Gender Bias
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This is more proof that once pregnant a woman's habits,lifestyle and choices affect the life and well being of her offspring in utero and her own health and well being. Therefore, if you become pregnant you are responsible for not only your health and well being, but those of the prenatal human in your womb.

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When will the adults grow up and stop trying to sexualize our children before they are old enough to drive and get a job? Is this part of the plan to normalize pedophilia?? The liberals have already worked to normalize homosexuality&made abortion acceptable now this??

A French clothing designer is under fire for developing a new line that is basically lingerie for children — except they’re calling the skimpy, beribboned collection “loungerie” instead.

Jours Apres Lunes (“Days After Moons”) bills itself as “the first designer brand dedicated to loungerie for children and teenagers, comprised of loungewear and lingerie to be worn over and under, inside and outside.”

Lingerie designer Sophie Morin said on her website her goal was to use adult lingerie trends to create underwear for toddlers and adolescents. It’s her “fille” line, aimed at 4- to 12-year-olds, that is attracting the most attention — and the photographs that go along with it.

A photo advertising a new French line of "loungerie" for children. (Credit: Jours Apres Lunes)

Outfitted in triangle bras, ruffled panties and teased hair, little girls model the collection on the designer’s website, in one photo appearing to frolic on a bed, with one girl pulling at another one’s hair. In another photo, a girl stretches out on a chair, sunglasses covering half her face while her tied-off top exposes almost her entire midsection.

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To those seeking to have better chances at conceiving a child, researchers say the winter&fall months are best. Warmer weather, along with sitting for long periods, bike riding often&increasing the warmth of the scrotum can cause male fertility problems. More motile&stronger sperm are produced in the cooler months and when men wear lose fitting pants&don't sit for long periods of time.

Of course pregnancy can occur year round, but for those with fertility problems this is another way to increase your chances at conception and having a child. So if you don't want kids then limit your chances by abstaining or waiting for warmer months and of course using protection at all times.

However, remember the risk of pregnancy is always there even with contraceptives. So remember, when you choose to have sex be ready for the natural results that could lead to pregnancy and get ready to be a new mom or dad. And as a prolife advocate, if you conceive don't kill your offspring, love them whether they are wanted or not, otherwise let someone else love them and adopt them.

In the spring, there begins a decline in the concentration of sperm in the semen as well as their ability to impregnate ova, Soroka University Medical Center researchers find.

Couples who have fertility problems due to low-quality sperm would be well advised to plan their calendars: Soroka University Medical Center researchers have found that the quality of semen – both the amount of sperm and their motility – is better in the winter and the fall than in the spring or summer.

Dr. Eliahu Levitas, a senior physician in the hospital’s in-vitro fertilization unit, reported to a recent meeting of the Israel Society for Fertility Research about his statistical study of 6,453 semen samples collected at Soroka.

He found that in the spring, there begins a decline in the concentration of sperm in the semen as well as their ability to impregnate ova. The decline continues through the summer and continues into the autumn months.

Read the full story at Jerusalem Post

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