Earlier this week, the cable network TLC aired a documentary — in primetime — promoting the merits of a summer camp that caters to little boys who like to dress up like little girls.
The subject of the documentary, “Transgender Kids Camp,” is a summer camp for little transgender kids and their parents, according to People, a magazine that is still around.
The documentary centers on a married couple, Chris and Sabrina, whose 13-year-old son Ryan dresses in girls’ clothes and acts like he is a girl.
“The camp was so impactful for us, and it was impactful for Ryan to see and experience that she wasn’t alone,” Sabrina, who is a parent coordinator at the unnamed camp, told People.
The four-day camp features typical camp fare. There’s a lake. There’s an obstacle course. There are campfires. On the last night of the camp, the transgender campers take part in a big fashion show entitled “Free to Be Me.”
“It’s different than just wearing feminine clothes every day at school,” Ryan, who has dressed up like a girl since kindergarten, told People.
“It’s full-on, blow-out, gung-ho wearing dresses” and “really magical,” Ryan explained.
During much of the time while the kids are partaking in various camp activities, parents participate in workshops.
“You see these kids coming as the camp starts and they’re shy and timid, and by Saturday night, the transformation in them is incredible,” Chris, a 57-year-old camp attendee — presumably a parent — told People.
The creative force behind the documentary is Nick Sweeney, a film producer based out of both New York City and London.
“What I noticed at camp was how huge a difference acceptance and understanding from parents makes,” Sweeney told People.
Sabrina, the mother who plays a starring role in the documentary, stressed her belief that there’s nothing wrong with encouraging little boys to pretend they are little girls on a complete and full-time basis.
“It’s not weird. It’s not strange. It’s not abnormal,” she told People. “This is who these kids are, and it’s okay.”
Not everyone agrees with Sabrina.
In a series of Sunday tweets last month, Princeton professor Robert George criticized President Barack Obama for trying to force transgender policies on public schools across America. (RELATED: Princeton Professor: ‘There Are Few Superstitious Beliefs As Absurd As’ Transgenderism)
“There are few superstitious beliefs as absurd as the idea that a woman can be trapped in a man’s body,” George wrote.
In March, the American College of Pediatricians flatly urged Americans and American policymakers “to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex.”
“Human sexuality is an objective binary trait,” the pediatrician group has said. “A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking.”
The location of the camp where the documentary was filmed is not clear. The website 2paragraphs notes that Camp Aranu’tiq holds transgender camps in both New Hampshire and Southern California at a cost of about $200 per participant.
TLC — which once called itself The Learning Channel — is most famous, of course, because it aired a reality show called “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” which featured a little girl who participated in child beauty pageant contestants and her mother, June Shannon, who was allegedly dating a child molester. (RELATED: This ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Child Molestation Story Just Got A LOT Worse)
According to Shannon’s older daughters, Anna, the child molester, Mark McDaniel, forced her to give him oral sex when she was 8 years old.
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