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

Deeply troubled 6 year olds with obvious mental health issues need appropriate care and parenting and that doesn't include affirming their gender confusion. Not at that age. FFS

That child (if this really happened as reported) has been let down by so many people and agencies. Assuming this is true, in any part, I'm furious that his story is all over the press. What a shitty thing to allow to happen to your child.

We had a family friend growing up who at the age of 5 (until about 10) was adamant he was a girl. He only played with “girly” toys and loved playing dress up and with his mums make up.

His parents allowed him to play with what he wanted of course but the didn’t let him believe he was a girl. He was a boy. By the age of 15 he was a happy young man.

parents are the issue in cases like the boy in the article. They need to realise that a boy wanting to play with a doll doesn’t mean they are a girl!

Poor little lad. Making it clear cut now will hopefully stop and more children being lied to in this way.

This is what I don't like about the whole trans thing. They enter a female only organisation / space, and division and disagreement and sometimes collapse, ensues.

Makes me wonder if that was the objective all along.

Actually @JonesTown- if you are in good faith on this, what do you think about the parents signing their male child up for Rainbows after the Supreme Court judgement?

From where I’m sitting, that looks like they set their child up to fail /to upset and disappointed in order for the parents to make a political point.

What possible excuse could there be for this choice? It doesn’t really matter if you agree with the decision or not, the fact was it was clear that single sex meant single sex not single gender and as such, Girl Guiding would either have to go mixed sex (allowing in all boys regardless of gender identity) or single sex, banning trans girls.

Why would anyone who loves their child put them in a situation at such a young age where they could be disappointed like this? It’s really horrible when you stop to think about it.

I suppose it's a sign of just how insane things were that I'm actually preferring this OP, who wants to just outright ban any single sex spaces and label them all as unisex, to the usual barmy army that wants single sex spaces to remain as designated single sex spaces so that those of the opposite sex can use them.

At least this one admits they wouldn't be single sex.

And if the parents had not affirmed this boy's delusions then he wouldnt be in this psychological mess. Why would parents have sent him to single sex guides rather than mixed sex scouts? Where is the room for desistance? For the child to change his mind? There is no world in which these parents have not contributed to this child's delusions, and, given they chose to put him into a female only club when an equivalent mixed sex one is available, given they have done everything possible to entrench him in this harmful delusion that apparently makes him want to cut his penis off at 6-fucking-years-of-age then i fail to believe that the whole bloody delusion didnt originate with the parents.

A six-year-old boy who has been consistently lied to and told he can be whatever he wants to be, gets so distressed when he comes into contact with material reality that he tries to harm himself… and this is the fault of sex realists? Nah.

If true, it has arisen due to lies being told to the child by parents/carers. Squirrel Scouts are open to boys and girls, as are other organisations. And restricting the various sections of Girl Guides (etc) to girls is putting girls/females first, not anti-trans.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 her penis 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I heard of a child at primary school who talked about killing himself. I believe he was taken out of class, parents called and and the senior teachers told the parents to take the kid to A&E for emergency mental health support.

I wonder what support this family will be offered.

Why? The child is male, a boy. He is not and never can be a girl, because a girl is a female child.

Why should society encourage this delusion, rather than trying to fix the inequality that drives the desire (in children) to be the opposite sex?

Even if it didn't happen (it definitely didn't), he still has the worst parents for going to the newspaper with a pack of lies about him.

Just to push their own agenda.

The whole story also has the same vibes about the couple who couldn't afford KitKat even though they earned £345,000 a year

Girls/women only spaces are important and it’s right they are being protected.

That poor child, lied to by parents and others who should damn well know better. Trendy rainbow parenting, trying to be "inclusive" and in the process really messing up this little boy.

If the child has a penis then he's a boy and that's that. No amount of glitter washing and stupid tiptoeing around pronouns changes biological reality.

The article also uses ‘she’ to refer to a boy several times and includes the oxymoron ‘her penis’ so I think we can take these reports of ‘leaving in solidarity’ with a pinch of salt. Girls of that age don’t think like that.

Either they have activist parents who have cruelly taken them out of Rainbows in protest or they are a further figment of the ‘writers’ imagination.

Why do you keep referring to this child as a 'girl', OP? HE is a BOY!

100%

and if it did this boy has the worst parents ever

lol - nice try at getting men to access women in vulnerable places. What could possibly go wrong ?

"Simply" is doing a lot of work there. Would they feel forced to go along with the plan if the child wanted to identify as a centipede? Would they be offered multiple leg transplants?

No girl has a penis. This little boy who doesn’t exist would need help if parents were so abusive as to tell about he can be one a girl.

It was a six year old boy.

I’ve only got one little boy but age 6 he would definitely not have wanted to cut off his penis. He was far too busy enjoying it.
This is very very bizarre