Letting your 4 year old son live as a girl...

This is a bit confusing to me so decided to bring it here so we can talk about it. Is there any way a 4 year boy can know without any doubts that he wants to be a girl? Kathryn and Jeremy Mathishave five children, including a set of triplets, one of which is a boy named Coy. Now according to Kathryn the mum, Coy, who loves pink,began gravitating toward girls’ toys and clothes by 18 months. Gender eventually turned into a bigger issue when Coy asked, at age 4, “When arewe going to go to the doctor to get me fixed so Ican be a girl?” A psychologist confirmed then that Coy was indeed transgender, at which point the parents decided to let ‘Coy be who she was.’ Coy at 6 years old is now living as a transgender. The problem now is that Coy has been banned fromusing the girl’s bathroom at her school, and the parents have filed a formaldiscrimination complaint against the school throughthe help of a lawyer. The parents are fighting for her right to use the girl's bathroom, but after all said and done, he still has a penis. So if my 4 year old boy loves pink, says he wants to be a girl, I will let him live as a girl? Why not wait till he hits puberty to see if he'll grow out of it? Is it not too early to be slapping labels on kids, especially ones that carry such life altering meanings?

Letting your 4 year old son live as a girl...

This is a bit confusing to me so decided to bring it here so we can talk about it. Is there any way a 4 year boy can know without any doubts that he wants to be a girl? Kathryn and Jeremy Mathishave five children, including a set of triplets, one of which is a boy named Coy. Now according to Kathryn the mum, Coy, who loves pink,began gravitating toward girls’ toys and clothes by 18 months. Gender eventually turned into a bigger issue when Coy asked, at age 4, “When arewe going to go to the doctor to get me fixed so Ican be a girl?” A psychologist confirmed then that Coy was indeed transgender, at which point the parents decided to let ‘Coy be who she was.’ Coy at 6 years old is now living as a transgender. The problem now is that Coy has been banned fromusing the girl’s bathroom at her school, and the parents have filed a formaldiscrimination complaint against the school throughthe help of a lawyer. The parents are fighting for her right to use the girl's bathroom, but after all said and done, he still has a penis. So if my 4 year old boy loves pink, says he wants to be a girl, I will let him live as a girl? Why not wait till he hits puberty to see if he'll grow out of it? Is it not too early to be slapping labels on kids, especially ones that carry such life altering meanings?

OGUGU SCHOOL SSCE (LAGOS) RESULTS CANCELLED, AFTER 4 YEARS.

•Affected undergraduates’ fate unknown In 2008, Sulaiman Ismail, now 23, was one of about 200 candidates that Ogudu Senior Grammar School, Ogudu, GRA, Ojota, Lagos, presented for the May/June Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) conducted by the West African ExaminationCouncil (WAEC). When theexamination body released the results in September same year, the candidate, with examination number 4251410254 was one of the few who recorded average performance. Details of his results are as follows: English Language- C6; Mathematics- B2; Agricultural Science- B3; Biology- C5; Chemistry- C4; Physics- C4; Economics- D7; Geography-D7 while absent was recorded against Government. In 2009, Ismail wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and scored 213. He subsequently scored 80 per cent in the Post-UTME conducted by the University of Ilorin in Kwara State, his preferreduniversity, where he was eventually admitted to study Computer Science. He is not only four years into his studies, he is already preparing for his graduation when the unexpected happens. As part of the prerequisites for graduation, he appeared at relevant university’s departments for clearance. At the Examination and Records Department, he was asked to prove the authenticity of the SSCE result he earlier presented and upon which he was offered admission. Innocently, Ismail supplied the detailed information to verify the ownership and that was when he received the shocker of his life. “We logged on to WAEC’s website and rather than displaying my grades against each subject that I registered, all I could see was “cancelled” against every subject except Government which I did not write andthey put ABS, which means absent. And it waslike a dream to me at that point and even till now,” Ismail explained. In his confused state, Ismail, a First Class material with current Cumulative Gradient Point (GPA) of 4.64, left Ilorin for Lagos on Thursday, February 14, and headed straight to his school to enquire about the situation. “When I got to the school, I met the new principal, Mr. Benedict and his deputy, Mrs. Adeniran, who told me they were also shocked to receive the news from some of my mates with similar experience. When I probed further, I was only directed to the father of one of my mates, who they claimed had better information on the matter,” the astonished student narrated further. He wentto meet his mate’s father,Mr. Owoyemi Moses, who told him that his son, Oluwatosin Owoyemi, was also affected by the development. But unlike Ismail, the boy was in 200-level at Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti when he discovered there was a problem with his WAEC result. Oluwatosin wasn’t at home when National Mirror visited, but his father said the trouble started in April 2012 when his son was processing his course registration as a 200-level student and discovered that his results earlier released byWAEC had been cancelled. “The boy was weeping when he told me and I could not believe my earsbecause he had checked same result on WAEC website and printed it four years earlier. We also got a statement of result from the school and the portion of a copyof the master sheet from WAEC that contains his details. So, how come almost four years after that he went online again to discover that, hisresults had been cancelled? “I pacified himand asked him to return to Lagos so that we couldfind out what was amiss. When we got to the school, I was surprised that they were not even aware of the development. We were only told that the students had been coming for their certificates and that they had written officially to WAEC to know why the certificates were yet to be released three years after exam,” Owoyemi narrated. One of the school teachers, simply identified as Mr. Solanke, volunteered to follow Oluwatosin and his fatherto Ikorodu office of WAEC,which controls Ojodu area. There, they met with the officer in charge,Mr. Olu Adekeye. A letter of complaint had earlier been sent to the office by the school. “But surprisingly, the officer incharge told us he had no knowledge of any letter from the school concerning the matter and addressed to his office. At that point, he got to know that the letter was received by a subordinate, Mr. Okonkwo, but who neverpassed it to the relevant office for action,” Owoyemi alleged. The matter later took thecomplainants to the Ikejaoffice of WAEC, from where the officer in charge of the office, simply identified as Mrs. Agwu wrote officially to the Nigeria’s head office of the council at Yaba for action. While these were on, the school claimed it had informed the affected students that WAEC had responded to letter sent earlier and that the council complained of having problem in embossing on their certificates what they called blur photographs they provided during registration and that it would require replacements.

President Goodluck Jonathan's message toNigerians

Our dear president posted this on his Facebook page this afternoon. See the full message after the cut.. Dear friends on facebook, The determination of this administration to create wealth in Nigeria and for Nigerians has led us to focus our investment drivetowards attracting ForeignDirect Investments in manufacturing and the service sector to ensure that jobs are created. And this drive is not an exercise in futility as Nigeria is becoming the preferred destination for FDI. Just last week, GeneralElectric announced a decision to invest $1 billion in setting up a manufacturing plant to support power generationand oil production. Their plant, to be situated in Calabar, will provide jobs for thousands with multiplier effect for tens ofthousands more and will make Nigeria a hub for power equipment in the region. The end result of this investment is that Nigeria’s power generating infrastructure will be expanded meaningmore power for Nigerians which translates to even more jobs. While we continue to encourage the Private Sector to help grow our economy and create jobs for our youths, we will do all within our powers to also keep our youths engaged. In this regard I am happy to report that the 600 bed Federal Teaching Hospital in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State which this administration began working on in February 2011. This project has reached 95% completion and when commissioned later this year it will provide jobs for 3000 people. Similar projects are ongoing in other geo-political zones and I will keep you updated. Similarly, ongoing massiveinvestments in the rehabilitation of our railways are being carried out with direct labour, thereby providing jobs to thousands of our youths especially around the Ilorin-Minna-Kaduna-Kano corridor of our rail network. In addition to the regular Lagos to Kano service, the Nigerian Railway Corporation has introduced new routes including the Offa-Kano intercity service. These initiatives are generating employment and providing an inexpensive means of travel as well as an alternative means of hauling heavy goods and petroleum products to thehinterland. Rehabilitation works are also ongoing in the nation’s pipelines to ensure a resumption of the supply of petroleum products by pipelines all over the nation thus reducing the pressure on our roads and railways and freeing up space for hauling other products. Jobs are being created as this is ongoing and moribund services are being resumed. Just last month, the Benin Depot of the Pipeline Product Marketing Company (PPMC) was reopened after a successful completion of rehabilitation works. Products can now be transferred by pipelines tothis facility. And it is not just in the service sectors that we areseeing construction and rehabilitation. During the maiden meeting of the Executive Council of the Federation meeting, the Federal Government approved the establishment of three new universities in Yobe, Kebbi and Zamfara states. Apart from the jobs that the construction works will generate in those states, value is being added to the local economy as more citizens will have access to tertiaryeducation with its attendant effect in wealth generation and improved health. My dear friends on facebook, may God bless you, even as I pray for Almighty God to bless our country, Nigeria. GEJ

We Won’t Underrate Mali –Mikel

Super Eagles midfielder, John Obi Mikel has cautioned his teammates that it would be calamitous to underrate their opponents, Mali in Wednesday's semifinal at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa. Nigeria qualified for the lastfour at the expense of the Ivory Coast with an impressive 2-1 victory at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg to set up a semifinal date with Mali's Eagles. Mikel is calling on the fans of the Super Eagles to exercise restraint ahead of the game against Mali which he predicts will be tough. "We cannot afford to look beyond the semifinals now because that would be disrespectful to Mali," Mikel said. The Chelsea midfielder however stated that the Super Eagles would go through if the players approach the game with the right spirit. "We just have to keep doing what we are doing and keep our feet on the ground. We have to keep training hard and believing in ourselves and hopefully we will qualify for the final," he said.