h.h. documents describe what its calls appropriate treatments for adolescents, including top surgery to create male typical shape or enhance and bottom surgery for. dd an additional document promotes the use of puberty blockers for kids and anyone stop to actually consider if this is wise, especially before puberty kicks in . kids are making all sorts of decisions. how could this fundamentally c change the child andch personal identity? joining us now, carole lieberman, a board certified psychiatrist. carol, what does denying children their natural ongoingn formation potentially produce? this is child abuse, pureng and simple. it is confusing to children. itit is jumping the gun. you know, now if a child we used to it seems kind of quaint now to talk about tomboys.
the story of a lot of little girls. sports over dolls, jeans over dresses. at one school in virginia, tomboys are apparently off limits. a girl was expelled just for being who she is. the story from lynchburg. reporter: sunnie kale is 8 years old. she s got short hair and a huge heart. as far as her grandparents are concerned, she s a great little girl. what else do you like to do? play time. cries every morning to get on the bus. cries when she gets home because she wants to go back to timberlake christian with her friends. reporter: doris and carol are her grandparents. they adopted and raised the little girl, and took her out of timberlake christian school when they received this letter from the k-8 principal. you re probably aware that timberlake christian school is a religious, bible believing institution providing an education in a distinctly christian environment.
and our choices frankly. and you know, it is interesting at the school, because lego bricks and blocks are intentionally placed next to the kitchen to not draw a barrier between cooking and construction. i was talking to one of the newsnation members tracy whose son loves to play in the kitchen and when you go to the day care the kitchen is more popular with the boys and the girls and it has nothing to do with the gender, but what is fun. right. if you create an environment where everything is fun and everything is worthwhile to explore and experience, then it is great. we want to get rid of the tomboys is bad and sissy is bad and that labeling. but the thing is that you want to create whatever kind of girl you want to band whatever kind of boy you want to be, it is okay. it is the trying to maybe orchestrate that, and that may be going tooer fa and we have to educate everybody else outside of the school to help change the kids. great point. psychologist robin goodman, and good
sitting in the courtroom with just them and the people from the church where the safe had been stolen. they started small talk telling them about birdie jo s son and talking about the weather. the church members trying to be nice looked at them and smiled and asked questions. you could tell they were very hurt. at one point one of the assistant pastors asked birdie jo, so where exactly are you living now? and all that humor and all that glee immediately erased from their faces and birdie jo said, we re not supposed to talk about that. it was all business from the beginning of that conversation. it is all about work. the kind of work he s talking about isn t the 9 to 5 variety. it s the scams that girls have been working at for most of their lives. since they were teenagers in illinois. these girls were tomboys. jeans, shirttails out. to be honest with you, the first time i was associated with them, i thought they were twin boys. retired police sergeant danny