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11 year old boy starts sex change because his lesbian mothers say he wants to be a girl.

The lesbian parents of an 11-year-old boy who is undergoing the process of becoming a girl last night defended the decision, claiming it was better for a child to have a sex change when young.

Thomas Lobel, who now calls himself Tammy, is undergoing controversial hormone blocking treatment in Berkeley, California to stop him going through puberty as a boy.

Berkeley; that figures.

But Pauline Moreno and Debra Lobel warn that children with gender identity disorder forced to postpone transitioning could face a higher risk of suicide.

The mothers say that one of the first things Thomas told them when he learned sign language aged three - because of a speech impediment - was, 'I am a girl'.

At age seven, after threatening genital mutilation on himself, psychiatrists diagnosed Thomas with gender identity disorder. By the age of eight, he began transitioning.

This summer, he started taking hormone-blocking drugs, which will stop him from experiencing puberty.

I'm immensely suspicious of a couple of lesbian mothers deciding that a three year old, communicating in sign language, can determine that a little boy wants, no, needs to be, a little girl.  Is it just possible that they wanted a little girl badly enough that they influenced his thoughts?  It's not like three year old children aren't influenced by their parents.

Could this end up another tragedy like the Belgian woman whose sex change operation went so badly she requested and received euthanasia?

"I was the girl that nobody wanted," Mr Verhelst told Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper in the hours before her death.

"While my brothers were celebrated, I got a storage room above the garage as a bedroom. 'If only you had been a boy', my mother complained. I was tolerated, nothing more."

 From Maggie's Farm, by way of Moonbattery.