Adults believe 5 year old boy's assertion that he's a girl!

Yesterday, the Miami Herald reported that a little boy in Broward County, Florida will start kindergarten as a girl. The boy had been saying for some time that he was a girl and had been behaving like a girl. So the parents and psychologists involved concluded that he must actually be a girl in a boy's body. This is not a joke. It was actually reported in the Miami Herald.

Now, perhaps there is more to this story than has been reported. Perhaps this really is a psychological or physiological condition. But the story described no more evidence for the adults to arrive at this conclusion than the little boy's assertion and behavior. They're calling it gender dysphoria. OK. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I am. But may I tell you what I think?

The child is FIVE years old. Yes. The child is FIVE years old!!! I've had quite a bit of experience with five-year olds. They know very, very little. They're adorable. They're wonderful. But their perceptions should not be relied upon for anything. They're not all there yet. That's what makes them so cute and so funny. And they certainly cannot be relied upon to tell you things that defy the realities of the physical world. (Based on the story alone, I am concluding that there is no physical abnormality here.) It would almost be comical if it weren't so sad for the little boy involved. There are the parents looking at their son. "Gee, he looks like a boy. We've always thought he was a boy. But he says he's a girl. Maybe he is a girl and the body he's in is a mistake." Are these parents adults? Do they think he may be right when he says there's a monster under the bed?

Think of the tomboys in previous generations. They just thought they liked to play games with the boys. Today would they be labeled gender dysphoric and told to wear boys clothes? Would school officials be told to treat them as boys?

Sometimes I feel like I'm living on Neptune.