I realise this is becoming more common but I need someone to tell me what to do. My dd (13) has decided she wants to be a boy. For background, she has suffered with fairly early puberty, depression and has been self-harming also for almost a year. The depression came first, then self harming and this was very closely followed by her ‘coming out’ to me firstly as being a lesbian/pansexual and then transgender. She has been getting support for depression/self-harming which have now improved. She takes Prozac and is going through a DBT program for self-harming.
As a family we get a fair amount of outside support as my 2 other children are on the autistic spectrum etc. I have discussed with these services the possibility of dd also having ASD but they have almost ruled it out because she appears to be fine. I’m a little sceptical and am thinking she needs a full assessment with someone very in tune with autistic girls.
At the moment I’m pushing back with dd being transgender and wanting her to wait until she has spoken to a psychologist properly before making an announcement to her class etc. I have no problem with what she wants to wear, discussing with friends but because I’m not letting her teacher formally talk to the class about it I’m the worst mother in the world.
I’ve read transgender trend but I just don’t know how to handle this right now.
Any advice, please..!
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Sparrow390 · 13/06/2019 22:16
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