Newsbusters writes:
How do you tell your kids that mommy is now a daddy? Or that a daddy is now a mommy?” Leave it to ABC to raise these questions on “Good Morning America.” A July 21 segment previewed “Primetime Family Secrets” airing later that night about a transgender woman and the effects of the decision on his family.
Correspondent Juju Chang documented the Prince family for one year. In 2008 Ted Prince became “Chloe” through a sex change and his wife, Rene, stayed with him. The couple has two sons: Logan is 7 1/2 and Barry is 6. Since the family stayed together, the purpose of Chang’s report was to examine all the adjustments that had to be made.
The news is now normalizing transgendering. Hmm. I thought the next kick would be normalizing polygamy but I guess they figure they’ll go right for the extreme.
This is all just part of the redefining of term “family” to which they ascribe all the evils of middle America.
Well, I won’t be tuning in I’ve got to watch a very special episode of “Blossom” I’ve had taped for a decade and a half that I’ll finally get to tonight. That Joey Lawrence kid is da’ bomb. I think he’s going to be a huge star. But if any of you do watch this garbage let us know how it goes in the combox. I’m sure it’ll be a pleasant hour.
HT Newsbusters
July 21, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Granted, I am very emotional right now due to personal matters, but this story is making me cry. I am so disgusted and saddened by Ted's pathetic selfishness and cruelty to his sons. Rene is not much better. To subject those innocent boys to such depravity is criminal. God have mercy.
July 22, 2009 at 3:49 am
They really do get their news from the scum on the bottom of pond scum. This is just wrong on so many levels.
July 22, 2009 at 4:16 am
I watched this clip way too late at night. Now I seriously feel nauseous.
What an incredibly selfish society we have. Not just "Chloe", but the media and voyeuristic consumers of the news. It is sad, but it is also scary. Too many people are just willing to accept this stuff as "normal".
July 22, 2009 at 6:36 am
Whoa!
July 22, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Words escape me but all levels of disgust don't. Ugg…
July 22, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Last week we were on vacation and the place we stayed had cable. My kids loved watching all the shows we don't get at home, and my daughter watched a lot of "Style Network" shows about fashion. There's one about a very expensive wedding dress store in New York City that profiles brides and what (if any) multi-thousand-dollar dresses they buy. One show included the store's first "two-bride" couple. While it was interesting from the store owner and employee's perspective (what to sell them), it was the same thing — normalizing the bizarre. I used to buy an annual Style or People magazine devoted to weddings, just for fun, but I quit that after the first "two groom" wedding. Our local paper runs stories like this every month or so.
July 23, 2009 at 1:23 pm
This is saddening and disgusting. How confused/sad did that poor boy sound when he said, "This is mom, and this is our other mom that used to be dad."
Children need fathers. Those boys are going to have no idea what it means to be a man when they grow up.
July 23, 2009 at 4:16 pm
"This is my mom and this is my…um…"
What does the "um" turn into around age 14? Those poor boys, and that poor woman. It seems like she has convinced herself or is trying to convince herself that her husband is allowed to do this to her and their kids and that she is supposed to remain his/her? spouse.
July 23, 2009 at 4:55 pm
We (my husband and I) caught the tail end of this program and were so saddened. The dominant thought in both of our minds was how selfish this man was… not only to marry, but to pursue the surgery ($70K) when the family was already in economic trouble.
I feel for Rene – I believe she's denying the obvious and it's time to move on, for her sake and (most importantly) for the sake of her two young boys.
Sad.
July 24, 2009 at 3:54 am
I've asked this before, and nobody's given me an answer.
Why is it when a man thinks he's Julius Caesar he gets inpatient therapy but when he thinks he's a woman he gets surgery?
That $70K would have bought a lot of therapy. They'll need more for their sons later.