@12:59 - look at that giggle, when the doctor asks him if he'd rather have a vagina and breasts.
Most kids that age are extremely bashful about their sexual organs - either that or a little bit too... proud (there was an episode of Royal Canadian Air Farce where a map of Canada kept 'showing off' its CN tower).
Kids at this age are curious, but shy - they're not quite ready to deal with what's happening to their body - but they're prone to 'playing doctor' with their peers - NOT with the adults around them.
Openly discussing his genitalia with his doctor and mother present is abonormal. This is presexual excitement you see on his face. Furthermore, he's treating it as 'magic' - he's ignoring the reality of what's being discussed (infertility and mutilation), and imaging a world where he gets to be a girl - though you can hardly blame a kid for ignoring reality.
It really appears that he has a developing sexual fetish of seeing himself as a girl; he isn't feminine, he's just fetishistic.
"I want to go through puberty so I can be like all the other girls."
A bit of a stab in the dark, but I'm suspecting that this is his way of reconnecting with his biological father. He wants a seductive pair of tits and a vagina so that he can win back his father, seduce him back, likely he heard a story at some point about how his father left his mother for someone younger and hotter.
@16:16 "Would you love me if I were a boy?"
Sad face.
Look at her expression immediately following that. Something like "Then why did you love dad???" Shortly thereafter you see the incipient masculine protesting against female control.
"They aren't sure of who they are, and they can't offer their parent that reassurance." It is the PARENT'S ROLE to give their child a positive identity! Blast it all to Hell...
You can see some major Locus of Control issues here; children assume that they control everything in their environment. Their parents got divorced? It's their fault for not cleaning their room.
This kid is constantly evaluating his own identity based upon how it affects his parents, and is simply unable to comprehend the fact that his parents will love him no matter what he does - children CANNOT comprehend this during their early stages of development, which is why it's incumbent upon the parents to provide them with stability and identity.
"I want to be a mommy..." God, that's sad.
Most kids that age are extremely bashful about their sexual organs - either that or a little bit too... proud (there was an episode of Royal Canadian Air Farce where a map of Canada kept 'showing off' its CN tower).
Kids at this age are curious, but shy - they're not quite ready to deal with what's happening to their body - but they're prone to 'playing doctor' with their peers - NOT with the adults around them.
Openly discussing his genitalia with his doctor and mother present is abonormal. This is presexual excitement you see on his face. Furthermore, he's treating it as 'magic' - he's ignoring the reality of what's being discussed (infertility and mutilation), and imaging a world where he gets to be a girl - though you can hardly blame a kid for ignoring reality.
It really appears that he has a developing sexual fetish of seeing himself as a girl; he isn't feminine, he's just fetishistic.
"I want to go through puberty so I can be like all the other girls."
A bit of a stab in the dark, but I'm suspecting that this is his way of reconnecting with his biological father. He wants a seductive pair of tits and a vagina so that he can win back his father, seduce him back, likely he heard a story at some point about how his father left his mother for someone younger and hotter.
@16:16 "Would you love me if I were a boy?"
Sad face.
Look at her expression immediately following that. Something like "Then why did you love dad???" Shortly thereafter you see the incipient masculine protesting against female control.
"They aren't sure of who they are, and they can't offer their parent that reassurance." It is the PARENT'S ROLE to give their child a positive identity! Blast it all to Hell...
You can see some major Locus of Control issues here; children assume that they control everything in their environment. Their parents got divorced? It's their fault for not cleaning their room.
This kid is constantly evaluating his own identity based upon how it affects his parents, and is simply unable to comprehend the fact that his parents will love him no matter what he does - children CANNOT comprehend this during their early stages of development, which is why it's incumbent upon the parents to provide them with stability and identity.
"I want to be a mommy..." God, that's sad.