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Stop Torturing Your Children, Part 2

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Stop Torturing Your Children, Part 1

From Dan Savage, at The Stranger Blog:

You must go listen to (or read) this absolutely heartbreaking piece by Alix Spiegel at NPR. It’s about two little boys who identify as girls—two transgendered children. One child’s family, under the care of a psychologist in Oakland, California, is allowing their child to live as a girl. The other child’s family, under the “care” of a psychologist in Toronto, is torturing their child to death—there’s really no other word for it. 

More on Sporno

Apropos that sporno (sports porno) blurb below, here is a whole article on the concept: “A MEN’S MAN”

British journalist Mark Simpson, 41, calls this “sporno” - a combination of sport and porno. In an article in last July’s issue of “Out” magazine, he described how sport has become the new homosexual pornography. “Much has been written about how porno is poised to go mainstream. Guess what? It already has … because sportsmen, like porn stars, are by definition show-offs, but more particularly because it means more money, more power, more endorsements, more kudos,” Simpson wrote.

In England, says Simpson, the homoerotic aspects of sport are no longer just hinted at. They’ve become an open and self-conscious flirtation. “Sportsmen on this side of the Atlantic are increasingly openly acknowledging and flirting with their gay fans, a la David Beckham and Fredrik Ljungberg (the man who actually looks the way Beckham thinks he looks). Both of these thoroughbreds have posed for spreads in gay magazines and both have welcomed the attention of gay fans because they ‘have great taste.’ They and a whole new generation of young males are actively pursuing sex-object status … In other words, they’re not just sports stars, but sporno stars.”

 Gratuitous pictures (humbly hotlinked from Simpson’s post on the subject):