Transgender Twin Opens Eyes in Maine Community

Dr. Murphy, what is your practice? You are claiming some knowledge in what 'causes' homosexual orientation. Please tell us more - it's fascinating. My dog had a litter of four pups last year - two male and two female - and I'm finding that they will lick anything. Are they bisexual? Or are they just acting out 'naughty' tendencies. My ex-wife is a lesbian. Is that my fault? Sorry to ramble, but I'd love to hear your views.

Oh, Dear, God, Dr. Norman C. Murphy. Reading your comment, I can't tell if your supporting gay/transgender human beings or what. Since there seems to be no positive energy in your post, I'll assume that you are not. I love the excuses and reasoning and rationalizations that people like yourself make yourself believe to facilitate and justify your bigoted, hateful, unloving views. I can't even come up with a stupid enough response to this. So, I'll leave you to your ignorance. Reread what you wrote. I'm sure you're having a hard time not laughing at the sheer stupidity you exude here. Ignorance, unlike being gay, is a choice and also contagious. Please keep your distance from society. We have enough ignorant people. Good luck to you. (P.S. If you this was a post showing your support, I apologize for jumping to my conclusion. Maybe repost explaining your support.)

Often in a crowded womb a child will have differences caused by lack of oxygen during a critical brain development stage. This explains the discordance for sexual identity among some identical twins. There are also other influences in the womb such as being to close to a male fetus and being overwhelmed by male sex hormones. Animals along a placental line will sometimes act as the opposite sex when between two males.

What a fantastically supportive family - hopefully, this will be a lesson and an example to many others

Great positie story. Good for those parents for recognising this and supporting their child early.

Good for those parents! My brother is transgender but he's also my triplet. We where born identical triplet girls he was dignosed at age 14, but he started his medical transition at Children’s Hospital Gender Management Services Clinic in Boston a year ago this month and hes been on hormone injections for 9 months and 1 day, and our whole family couldnt be happier. Today he even got to tell his story at Northeastern university in Boston at the stand up against bullying event for 4000 kids from schools all over Mass and another 15000 on a live web feed. And its when stories like these twins and my brother that get told and people get to see regular people out living their lives, and theres no better example that 'it gets better'.

Good for those parents! My brother is transgender but he's also my triplet. We where born identical triplet girls, he was dignosed at age 14, but he started his medical transition at Children’s Hospital Gender Management Services Clinic in Boston a year ago this month and hes been on hormone injections for 9 months and 1 day, and our whole family couldnt be happier. Today he even got to tell his story at Northeastern university in Boston at the stand up against bullying event for 4000 kids from schools all over Mass and another 15000 on a live web feed. And its when stories like these twins and my brother that get told and kids get to see regular people out living their lives, and theres no better example that 'it gets better'.

Good for those parents. My brother is transgender but hes also my triplet. My brother, sister and I where all born girls, identical, and he started his medical transition at Childrens hospital in Boston at the gender clinic a year ago this month. He has now been on hormone injections for 9 months and 1 day and our whole family couldnt be happier for him! Today he even told his story at Northeaster University in Boston to a audience of 4000 kids from all over Mass and another 15000 on a live web feed, at the Stand up Against Bullying event. There my brother meet another Trangender kid. Its when stories like this, and like my brothers that get told to kids, and they get to see regular people like them living happy lives and being theirselves. Its stories that these that provide no better example that 'it gets better'.

This is a very interesting case from a scientific viewpoint. Same genes, same prenatal environment, very close early environment, but clearly different development from very early on. Similar to identical twins where 50% are both gay if one is gay. Could there be a random trigger sometimes? I had an epiphany the other day when reading an article about the pre-DADT military. They would reject or discharge anyone who admitted to 'homosexual tendencies' regardless of whether they had ever acted on them. That showed the military understood this to be an innate and immutable characteristic! As a comparison, if someone stole or lied, they would be punished and maybe given another chance. But simply BEING gay was considered unfit for duty. So for those who think this is a choice, why wouldn't the military give them a chance to reform? Because they KNEW it was not a choice!

It is nice to know that there are some parents out there willing to allow their children to fully discover and express themselves.