max-jousterofwindmills:

totheexperts:

**Trigger Warning for heterosexism, pseudoscience, erasure, suicide**

jonathan-cunningham:

newwavefeminism:

Anderson Cooper 360 - “The Sissy Boy Experiment”

I just saw this on CNN. This is what happened when scientists governed by ignorance use their degrees to manipulate parents and americans into blindly following hegemonic and dangerous cultural norms.

from the AC360 blog:

Kirk Murphy was a bright 5-year-old boy, growing up near Los Angeles in the 1970s. He was the middle child, with big brother Mark, 8, and little sister Maris, just a baby at 9 months. Their mother, Kaytee Murphy, remembers Kirk’s kind nature, “He was just very intelligent, and a sweet, sweet, child.” But she was also worried.

“Well, I was becoming a little concerned, I guess, when he was playing with dolls and stuff,” she said. “Playing with the girls’ toys, and probably picking up little effeminate, well, like stroking the hair, the long hair and stuff. It just bothered me that maybe he was picking up maybe too many feminine traits.” She said it bothered her because she wanted Kirk to grow up and have “a normal life.”

Then Kaytee Murphy saw a psychologist on local television.

“He was naming all of these things; ‘If your son is doing five of these 10 things, does he prefer to play with girls’ toys instead of boys’ toys?’ Just things like this,” she said.

The doctor was on TV that day, recruiting boys for a government-funded program at the University of California, Los Angeles.

“Well, him being the expert, I thought, maybe I should take Kirk in,” said Kaytee Murphy. “In other words, nip it in the bud, before it got started any further.”

They beat him for expressing his personality until he was so isolated that he killed himself. I can’t even express the sorrow I feel at this.

reblog to look up later.

This is absolutely heartbreaking.

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   I tried to feel sympathy for his mother but I just couldn’t. She watched her child be destroyed and didn’t even have the...

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    This is absolutely horrifying. The first story I heard that had anything to do with these sort of gender experiments was...

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    How could someone do that to a child?!

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    this SHIT it’s heartbreaking

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    I cannot believe this. This is horrible, completely heartbreaking /:

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    This is beyond tragic and beyond disgusting. The fact that Rekers is not behind bars is a travesty.

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    …..UCLA? UCLA!? WHAT THE FUCK WHY AM I GOING HERE THERE IS SO MUCH WRONG WITH THIS WHOLE FUCKING THING I CANT HANDLE IT....

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    This is absolutely heartbreaking.

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    This broke my heart in ways I never thought possible. It’s just… broken.

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