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

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

We’re talking about a distressed 6 year old boy here. And yes, the parents have navigated what seem to be fairly serious issues, whether theirs or his, appallingly badly. That’s why he’s distressed.

Oh well, they tend to be oversubscribed. Other children will take their places.

He’s 6. If he wanted to identify as a dinosaur or a cat should the world be expected to pander to those delusions too?

Those spaces will get filled easily with other girls, there is always a waiting list for Rainbows and Brownies

This is his parents fault for letting a 6 year old think that he can change his sex.

It's not surprising that you think six year olds capable of organising a boycott.

You seem to think six year olds are capable of determining their own gender.

Absolutely, what would the solution be if all the little girls at rainbows said “if males keep coming here I’m going to harm myself” ?

oh yes, they get told “too bad, how sad, you won’t be missed BIGOTS!!”

Poor lad. It's not his fault the adults in his life have put him in this position.

His parents should never have let him think he could actually be a girl. It's not Girlguiding they should be angry with but themselves for their decision, as supposedly responsible adults, to lie to their child and trans him.

And he isn't banned because he's trans, girls who think they are boys can join. He's banned because he's not a girl.

But of course they'll blame the world and their dog before reflecting on their part in his distress.

Perhaps the majority of people are not prepared to participate in his delusion?

6-year old "girls" don't have penises to cut off

That’s got nothing to do with the actual girls who need single sex safe places and you know it.

Desperately wanted to be cool and special more like.

No girl has a penis. The parents should have supported their son to accept that it's OK to be different but being different doesn't make a boy into a girl. If he wants to play with a doll and wear pink he's still a boy.

Saved me typing the same response.

He’d a boy - end of.

This is all just bollocks though isn’t it. If this child has been so terribly distressed (although I don’t believe it tbh) it’s totally on the parents for blowing it up and sending their boy to a girls group in the first place. I’m sure they could have said something like, rainbows has come to an end, it’s time for us to look at scouts. I find it hard to believe any child cares that passionately about rainbows or brownies or that all the 6 year olds are so up in arms they’re now boycotting it. These are all very adult sensibilities being put onto small children.

There are plenty of mixed sex groups this little boy could attend rather than force little girls to be taught from a young age that their role in life is to roll over and #bekind to male entitlement invading their spaces

Not as 6
At 6 it's dress up.

Absolute bollocks.

He wouldn’t need to ‘cut off his penis’ if he wasn’t a boy would he? Not that he did try to chop off his penis, you know his parents are lying about that don’t you? To push their agenda?

Growing up as a 'trans girl' unavoidably means learning to accept a duality - the reality of male sex continuing to exist and being relevant in some circumstances, alongside a 'female' identity.

Parents who don't make this clear to their children from the start do them no favours at all. But then maybe if they did those children would push back more against the compete irrationality of what they're being told in general about their identity, and the parents wouldn't like that?

He's a boy, do you make a habit of lying to small children?

Yep

Theres another thread running at the moment about parental authority, nothing as indepth as pretending you're the opposite sex but theres an example on there of the over explaining and over burdening of information to young people. But apparently in that example on the other thread the 4 year old 'gets it'

I suspect that parents who waffle on and go into great explanations about things think that their child 'gets it' and oh they're so insightful and they understand lots of things.

But what you create when you put a load of information dumped on a very young child like 3, 4, 5 and so on, is that although on the surface you think they 'get it' but you're over burdening them with processing and digesting of things that are too multi layered and grown up in some ways. This is why childhood anxiety is through the roof.

I would wager this has happened to this child in his life before, leading to this nonsense that he thinks hes a girl 'you know she's really clear about her identity and what she feels'.

And now the information that he cannot attend a particular club anymore was couched in similar terms 'because we're completely honest with her'

Well dont be, you're a grown up and children need to be given information in an age appropriate manner. The club is closed for you now so lets join another one.

The parents probably caused the delusion.

It sounds like they're the ones with mental health problems.

Probably desperately wanted a girl.

Interesting user name btw.