Following on from a report about waiting lists to attend GID clinic, there was an interview of a 10 year old transgirl and her mother. I really don’t know what to make of it. Both the child and the mother sound to be genuinely struggling with this and I found it incredibly sad to listen to the story of her child self harming after identifying as a girl. Her mother commented that she wasn’t looking for her child to start on blockers or surgery but felt she needed psychological support and how lacking this was. Clearly the mother was doing her best but I couldn’t help but feel uneasy listening to why the child felt they were really a girl and the whole “born in the wrong body” narrative. From the sounds of things came across the term transgender because it was used as an insult by her classmates but had previously told her mother she has the heart of a girl. I thought the response from the specialist after the interview was quite measured.
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Poppyred85 · 23/04/2018 13:33
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