Six year old trans girl ‘tries to cut off her penis’ after Guide ban

You’re right actually. Gay people as well! Let’s stop lying to them about fancying the wrong gender.

Boys should be boys and girls should be girls.

How enlightening!

Zoe Williams has argued that a sensible solution to all of this would be to make the Brownies mixed gender like the Scouts.

Wouldn't this be more sensible than making six year old girls so distressed that they attempt to cut off their penis?

The parent in question wrote about it months ago on Medium: https://medium.com/@ParentofaTransGirl/she-just-wanted-to-wear-the-uniform-how-a-six-year-old-trans-girl-was-left-behind-4d0411e9d59e

The girl clearly wants to identify as female, and I think it’s only right that we respect her wishes in how we refer to her.

Yep, same as any other child whose parents exhibit Munchausens by Proxy. Six years old FFS.

Unfortunately, many will still have to live with the damage to their bodies, fertility and mental health when the rest of the world has moved on.

I wonder how the child’s parents broke the news to them about Rainbows. Was it:

’We’re not going to be coming back in September, how about Scouts?’

or was it

‘Evil society hates trans girls like you and you’re not allowed to come back because you have a penis’

Because if this is genuine, a 6yo (in year 1/2) trying to mutilate your own genitalia off is not a normal response to not going back to a club and something is seriously wrong here. How would a child even make that connection (that their penis is the problem)?

How can anyone try and blame the ‘anti-trans’ (feminists) for this? I don’t feel particularly strongly about transgender children in Rainbows/Brownies either way, but seriously, no.

That poor child. I think there are better ways to support a child who is so extremely distressed than the ways this child’s parents choose to parent them. As the saying goes, “unfortunately you can’t pick your parents.”

In 20 years' time nobody will admit to having been this stupid.

Thank god I grew up in the 80s. I lived on a farm and spent my time with my brothers - climbing trees, riding quad bikes, making dens, playing with matchbox cars. I was a girl who liked doing boys things, not that I saw them as boys things, they were just things I enjoyed. But now my behaviour could be seen as a sure sign that I was born in the wrong body, although I’d like to think my parents wouldn’t have been batshit enough to think I was the wrong gender.

I know of a 12 year old girl who for at least the last couple of years has decided she’s gay, non binary, sometimes a boy, changed her name 3 times, and also identifies as a range of animals. Her mum just goes along with it all. Surely at some point parents have to point out that this is all delusional nonsense?

It's probably been said but I'm not reading the whole thread!

Picking up from commentsnthat there have always been gender non conforming people - yes! And they were largely accepted.

I get really irritated when I read that feminists are the problem because disagree with gender non conformity and want everyone to stay in their box.

No. That is not the issue. We don't care if boys want to play with Barbies or girls want to climb trees. In fact, most of us encourage our children not to conform to rigid and regressive gender stereotypes.

We just don't think that boys liking Barbies means they are girls and girls climbing trees means they are boys. Trans activists aren't advocating for people to break down the boxes of gender conformity. They're literally reinforcing them by saying if you step out of your box you must step into the other. Or exist in the nebulous 'non binary' space with a foot in both boxes or no box at all.

They're saying that you can't be a boy who likes Barbies because only girls like Barbies so if you're a boy and you do, you are really a girl. I just don't see how that makes any sense to anyone.

Just be a boy who likes Barbies. It's fine.

in 20 years time we will be reading articles in weekend supplements entitled 'growing up trans- living with activist parents- all I wanted was a barbie but instead I got a new name and a whole new wardrobe- enduring MH effects on children born into the trans cult'

Zoe Williams has argued that a sensible solution to all of this would be to make the Brownies mixed gender like the Scouts.

Wouldn't this be more sensible than making six year old girls so distressed that they attempt to cut off their penis?

in 20 years time we will be reading articles in weekend supplements entitled 'growing up trans- living with activist parents- all I wanted was a barbie but instead I got a new name and a whole new wardrobe- enduring MH effects on children born into the trans cult'

Most Rainbows and Brownie groups have long waiting lists to join, so I'm guessing the flouncers were soon replaced.

This thread is so uplifting - 2 lunatic TRAs spouting anti women and anti science nonsense and all other posters disagreeing

the grift is well and truly up

in 20 years time we will be reading articles in weekend supplements entitled 'growing up trans- living with activist parents- all I wanted was a barbie but instead I got a new name and a whole new wardrobe- enduring MH effects on children born into the trans cult'

There are all sorts of physical advantages that different people have in sport. Are we saying that tall girls should be banned from female teams because they are better than others.

I don’t see why a girl should be banned from playing a sport they love simply because they happen to have been assigned male at birth.

They identify as women though, and should be treated as such from the perspective of sport categorisation.

Trans women happen to have been assigned male at birth. That should not prevent them participating in the sport grouping that feels most appropriate to them.

The IOC have caved into pressure from Trump and the far-right gender critical activists.

Those who are campaigning against dignity for trans women should be asking themselves if they’re really happy to be on the same side as Trump 🙄

Why would non binary people belong in the female single gender spaces that you want?
Surely non binary people should be using a 3rd space thats for non binary people rather than a single gender space for male or female gender
Or do you just want to have a mens space and a non male

The Green Party position is that trans women are women, and should have access to female spaces alongside non-binary people.

Until we reach a position where all facilities are multi-gender, the Greens’ position would avoid trans people being so distressed that a six year old girl tries to cut her penis off.