A Boys' Camp to Redefine Gender

Two takes on the same camp; from Slate:

A Boys' Camp to Redefine Gender

and from a religious-interest magazine:

Transgender Boy's Camp 'Unnatural,' Restrictive, Say Christian Leaders

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

CP:
'But Christian leaders disagree, saying the camp might even be forcing these children down an unnatural path.

"There is a risk of locking children into a life course, which, if they had been left to develop naturally, they would have outgrown," warned Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for Policy Studies at the Family Research Council in Washington D.C., in an interview with the Christian Post Tuesday.

Sprigg argued that teaching kids they have to identify with their "sexual orientation" or "sexual identity" could "lock" them in a phase. "You'll have children who are going through natural periods of confusion and experimentation with their sexuality and all of a sudden you have adults telling them, this means you're gay, you were born gay, you will never change," he said.'

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I see what both articles are saying. I do just wonder this one thing: If a bunch of girls all go to a softball or soccer camp and pretty much "dress and act like boys" for 4 days (usually longer; 1-2 weeks), why doesn't anyone criticize that?

Just saying. But I'm not saying there may not be a basis for criticism around this camp based on parental "over-involvement" in their sons' *possible* going-through-a-phase-but-possibly-not-ness. I'm just saying, gee, ppl seem a lot less uptight abt this topic when it applies to girls.

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