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Summer camp trains boys ages 3-8 to be transgenders?

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/ ... hotos.html

Over the past three years, photographer Lindsay Morris has been documenting a four-day camp for gender nonconforming boys and their parents.

The camp, "You Are You" (the name has been changed to protect the privacy of the children and is also the name of Morris' series), is for "Parents who don't have a gender-confirming 3-year-old who wants to wear high heels and prefers to go down the pink aisle in K-Mart and not that nasty dark boys' aisle," Morris said with a laugh.

It is also a place for both parents and children to feel protected in an environment that encourages free expression.

"[The kids] don't have to look over their shoulders, and they can let down their guard. Those are four days when none of that matters, and they are surrounded by family members who support them," Morris said.

Morris has stated that her photographic goal for the project is "to represent the spirit of these boys as they shine." Some of the ways in which the kids shine is through the talent and fashion shows at camp that are popular and for which the campers come well-prepared.

"Some practice for the talent show all year, and others create their own gowns with their mothers or friends of the family," Morris said. "The focus and enthusiasm is really pretty incredible. Also, it can be very emotional for the parents, especially the families who are new to camp and are experiencing this kind of group acceptance for the very first time."

Although it is unknown if the kids at the camp will eventually identify as gay or transgender-or even if the way gender and sexuality are defined throughout society will evolve-the camp allows the kids to look at themselves in a completely different way.

"They get enough questioning in their daily lives, so it's a great place for them to express themselves as they feel. . I feel we hear so many of the sad stories and how LGBT kids are disproportionately affected by bullying, depression, and suicide, and it hangs a heavy cloud over them and kind of dooms them from the beginning. I'm saying this is a new story. This is not a tragedy."

Morris hopes to eventually publish a book of her work and also launch a large multimedia show that travels the country and the world to show a new face of LGBT youth. The children featured here and in Morris' project are photographed with the permission of the their parents. Her ultimate goal is to start a foundation that raises money to help underwrite the cost of camp for kids unable to attend. She also hopes to add even more dimension to the project, concentrating on producing more portraiture and documenting the transition the kids experience upon arrival to the camp.

"I would really love to follow the kids into adulthood and see what kind of relationships they develop," Morris said. "I want to witness the evolution, knowing from where they started and see how life is going to play out for them-hopefully happily-and I think they're going to have a better transition into adulthood than the generation proceeding them."

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Oh, hey, what? I don't have anything against gays or shemales or whatever but what the fuck?

I think I just throw up a little bit in my mouth.

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

The suicide rate is about to hit record high. They also need to be teaching these kids NOT everyone in society is going to accept it. So when you have a bunch of heterosexuals bashing brains, who will be at fault? They need to stop pushing it on people. I'm just stating facts. Why are people teaching kids stuff like this anyway? Childhood is suppose to be fun. Sodom and Gomorrah all over again.

[Scorpius]

Let the kids be kids! This is disgusting.

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Speaking of wich, after all that Sodomo and Gomorrah debacle, weird how Lot's daughters had sex with their own father to have kids. Makes me totally confused. Must have been some strong wine!

30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth. 32 Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's family line┼." 33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's family line.╬" 35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she got up. 36 Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father. 37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

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[PROBLEMCHYLD]

People are NOT playing about they kids. If he had a gun, it would have definitely been a murder.

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Video removed, it says.

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

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Hhhahahaa... serves him right.