This is just one small part of the country:
www.hertsad.co.uk/news/increase-in-trans-support-is-offered-as-child-gender-fluidity-rises-in-st-albans-district-1-5264057
"According to trans charity Mermaids UK, which supports families experiencing gender diverse and transgender children, it is difficult to know how many people are gender-variant.
Yet a survey by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, undertaken in 2012 by 10,000 recipients, suggested one in 100 people are gender-fluid to some degree."
“My daughter is at Marlborough School and started this September. So far she is loving life and I hope it stays that way.
“She left primary school as a boy and everyone has just accepted the change with no dramas.”
"Another proud mum added: “My daughter is 11 and one of the most beautiful children on the planet. She is happy and healthy and will never be a boy again. He used to be a boy at school and a girl at home. So she started secondary school as a girl. I wish I had the guts to let her be free a lot sooner."
"Seven-year-old Dexter was born a girl named Talia. He has lived as a boy for several years."
"“It was when he was aged two and a half I noticed a strong dislike of anything ‘girl’. He wouldn’t wear knickers and refused to play with girls’ toys. He had male friends but I never thought anything of it as my friends all had boys and I was a tomboy as a kid."
"Dexter - whose dream is to be an Olympic gymnast or runner when he grows up - celebrated his birthday on Wednesday "
Yeah sorry but that only works the other way round.
"“I want people to understand this isn’t a choice, in the same way being gay isn’t a choice. He’s adamant he will grow up and get married and be the husband and daddy and he will have a wife."
Er, biology might have something to say about that.
"Tracy, 45, is mum to a trans boy. Born a girl called Kiera, her 14-year-old lives in Hatfield as a boy and applied to legally change his name to Danny this week.
He also attends a LGBT group for teenagers in Hatfield as Danny but attends a girls’ school where his identity is outwardly ‘female’. He returned to school with the new legal name of Danny – despite still wearing a skirt and blouse because it’s a girls’ school"
"“Danny wants to fully transition to be male and The Tavistock will offer the help needed mentally and physically to be able to do this. Testosterone will be the first step and we are hoping to start as soon as he finishes Year 11"
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"He had never been interested in boys’ toys then one day, Dianne found her biological son, aged two, upstairs with his sister’s dress and make up on. Through school he would change into girls’ clothes every evening, he hated football and wanted to keep his hair long. He would say to her “When I grow up and I’m a real girl I’m going to have loads of dresses”."
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Jenny’s child changed her name from an overtly feminine name to Charlie, to reflect what she feels is her pansexuality. She is 14. Her mum said: “She dresses in an androgynous way and prefers to appear more male than female. She prefers not to be called she/her, so we use her name and pronouns, which quite is tricky.
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And why is this all happening? Well there's material like this www.facebook.com/sirell.fiel/posts/1621018487918535 being distributed to 11-year-old children (in New York in that case, but it's a global phenomenon) informing them about 'bottom surgery' and 'bilateral mastectomy' as if it's the most normal thing in the fucking world.
These groups can make up whatever shit they like and just come in and hand it out because there is no kind of restraint or oversight.
This is official an NHS handout. www.mermaidsuk.org.uk/assets/media/17-15-02-A-Guide-For-Young-People.pdf and it teaches young kids how to 'pass', how they can have their 'dream name', and it (naturally) refers children to Mermaids as if they are a credible mainstream group, rather than extremist one. It tells children that hormones "effectively produce a female puberty", and that testosterone "offers very effective masculinisation", and that hormone blockers if taken when younger give a "more passable body".
They even suggest you go overseas to escape the nasty beastly business of regulation
"If you are under 16 a lot will depend on gaining the full support from your parents. In other countries hormone blockers can be given to younger transsexual people which will prevent the onset of unwanted secondary sex characteristics. This may mean that you look further than the UK for medical intervention. It would be undesirable to buy hormones over the internet without fully knowing what you are buying."
Utter fucking insanity. The NHS is suggesting you buy prescription-only medication overseas or on the internet. Since when did the NHS operate like that?
"Technology for SRS is quite advanced and with good surgery even gynaecologists are said to find it hard to distinguish a constructed vagina from a natal one. "
"Orchidectomy is the removal of the testes. This operation means that testosterone will no longer be naturally produced in the body and therefore you can do without your testosterone blocker. In general, the lower the dose of any drug the lower the health risks you will have. "
"Hysterectomy
This surgery involves the removal of the interior female sexual organs. This prevents the risk of cancer and forever prevents periods or risk of pregnancy"
That's the entire entry for 'hysterectomy'. Sounds great, huh?
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Trans lobbying children
pisacake · 06/11/2017 12:45
Bloody hell...
Yet again it's all about clothes and toys ffs
Those poor children. I've no doubt the parents are doing what they feel is best but the advice they are being given and why they are being told...
The town in the OP is where I live! I'm appalled, I thought we'd escaped the worse ravages of transactivists. Certainly all I know are sensible parents who allow their children to have whatever interests and like and dislikes they please without deciding that makes them a different gender. 
I find that incredibly hard to believe. When will men people realise that a vagina is way more than a suitable orifice to be penetrated...
DP finds the idea that one would be indistinguishable from the other difficult to believe, on the basis of physiology.
Oh, how he laughed when I suggested he might be a vagina fetishist. By laughed, I mean went 
"“It was when he was aged two and a half I noticed a strong dislike of anything ‘girl’. He wouldn’t wear knickers and refused to play with girls’ toys. He had male friends but I never thought anything of it as my friends all had boys and I was a tomboy as a kid."
Amazing, how this mother seems to accept that her child is actually boy based on the child being a tomboy, whilst freely accepting she herself was a tomboy herself Seems no such thing as a 'tomboy' these days. clearly the rational response to having a girl who doesn't want to wear knickers and gets on better with boys is to put them on route to blockers. Rather than just not put your child in knickers and let them play with boys.
Also yet again, all transkids mentioned being about stereotypes.
Mermaids need to fuck off. They are doing so much damage. Genuinely upsets me that the NHS signpost any parents of gender non-conforming kids to this pressure group.
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