Dear Gramps,
My first douther since she a litlle 2 yrs old, she identified herself as a boy. She still strugle with her boddy and her spiritual feeling about herself identity. Is that some kind of desability, like blindness? or some other kind of anormaly? how God see it?
Lara Lopes, from Houston, Texas

Dear Lara,
You didn’t tell me how old your daughter was. Many little girl children like boy things. They are known as tomboys. But as they mature into puberty they develop and identify with all their feminine qualities and lead quite normal lives. If she is still pre-teen her confusion may well come from the teasing of other children, which, although unfortunate, is always there.
If she truly has transgender tendencies, that is something to consider and contend with. However, it is nothing to be overly concerned with as long as it is understood properly. All of us have different inclinations and tendencies that need to be recognized and overcome. Some folks are kleptomaniacs, and struggle not to take things that do not belong to them. Others are inclined toward alcoholism, etc.. However, it is extremely important to recognize that these inclinations, although they may be natural to the person who is afflicted by them, must be controlled and overcome. Society cannot condone thievery or alcoholism because the thief or the drunk feels that he was born that way. Neither can a homosexual or a person with transgender inclinations expect society to recognize those inclinations as normal, acceptable behavior. However, we must admit that the current direction of society is to consider sexual deviations as normal, acceptable behavior, on the premise that such inclinations are genetic in nature and thus part of the normal way that a person is. Although there may in some cases be a genetic tendency toward such behavior, it is by a very large majority an acquired inclination. For instance, back in the 1980s a certain clinic in New York had about an 85% cure rate for homosexuals.
Gramps