I am writing in regard to your front- page article on Friday, Oct. 24 about Sean the transsexual. I was appalled by what I read. While I don’t understand why a transsexual is front page news, I was stunned to read she/he had a five-year-old son.

What kind of scars does she/he want to leave on this poor child? What a selfish, SELFISH woman to tell her/his child that not only did Daddy leave them, but “Mommy wants to be a boy now.” This abuse of a child is as bad as any form of physical child abuse. She/he said her/his son was studying butterflies in kindergarten and this helped explain Mommy’s decision.

I hardly think a butterfly compares with a person chopping away some parts and adding others to her/his body. One is natural, the other is unnatural — anyone can figure that out.

Trying to equate the two to a child only serves to confuse the child even more. She/he was female enough to have a child, but not woman enough to mother that child. It reminds me of the phrase, “You need a license to drive a car, but any [one] can be a parent.”

Our society has become so permissive that anyone is allowed to do anything they want to do in the name of freedom. We are so concerned with rights we don’t even stop to consider what is right.

It is never right to traumatize a child, especially when there is a conscious decision made. I can’t understand why the LGBTA or any similar “support group” would support someone breaking up a family because they decided they were gay or wanted to change their sex.

I can only hope people will consider the welfare of any children who will be affected by such a selfish decision.

Garren Bugh

Senior

Construction engineering