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

100% this. Why are the parents of a child barely primary school age allowing this and encouraging their son to believe he’s a girl?

Six year old girls don’t have penises.

Six year old girls don't have penises to attempt to cut off. HTH.

As you say, Scouts is mixed sex. So why doesn't the scissor-wielder go there? What's stopping that solution?

Wouldn’t dealing with your young child’s obviously severe MH problems by access urgent help be a more sensible and humane solution than leaning into his delusions by taking him to a girls-only organisation?

No, spaces for girls are important.
Unfortunately child abuse is a tragic reality, and the solution to that is not to remove girls' spaces.

This didn’t happen so much it went back in time and unhappened things that really did happen! 😂😂😂

Don't be ridiculous. There are specific reasons why girls and women need spaces apart from boys and men - safety, privacy, decency and the chance to speak and take a lead without the males muscling in and taking over. Removing all single-sex organisations would be detrimental to those who have flourished there.

And who put it into his head that he could change his sex/gender or that he was the opposite sex?

Six-year-olds don't happen upon these notions by themselves without adults guiding them to it.

Any adult that plants these seeds should be viewed in the same lens as we view all abusers and manipulators.

Also, it's incredibly manipulative to use this example to rail against the Girl Guides ban. As if such a case should nullify or change the Girl Guides stance, because women and girls rights should be predicated on how well boys and men respond to them.

Even a six year old knows they aren’t going to be able to cut off their own penis with a pair of plastic scissors. There was no risk, and reporting this childish rubbish is just sensationalist attention seeking. The parents should be ashamed of themselves.

A far more sensible thing to do would be to sign your male child up to a mixed sex organisation such as scouts in the first place as opposed to a female only one.

Vegan Cat.

Either the parents have not even tried to put sharp things out of reach of a six year old with known mental health problems or we have full on Munchausens by proxy in motion

Social services as much as they may be pro trans will however not be looking into Girl Guiding over this.

That’s just shitty parenting.

The poor boy having this all over the papers - assuming it’s not a work of fiction.

The child isn't barred from Girl Guides because he is trans, but because he is a boy. How on earth does a 6 year old end up with such a severe case of self loathing, and why isn't he getting the appropriate mental health support?

Spot on.

I think the parents who try to reinforce their children's identities or somehow keep them safer by deliberately signing them up for a girls only activity are making a huge mistake. Beavers and cubs are available and would have made their child much less vulnerable to both criticism and this type of rule change, even if they had joined those while being described as a girl.

Unreal that the Girlguiding organisation are being used as a lightening rod by some for what appears to be a very particular issue - a family who need to focus on what's going on closer to home.

Utilitarianism is a real thing when it comes to associations. The needs of 300,000 girls cannot be overlooked simply because one young person is regrettably going through such a turbulent period that they are doing what is described.

And this, even more regrettably, is how it needs to be looked at. That this is an incident of a young person with serious troubles, who needs to be helped directly as much as possible, who needs to be loved and supported away from politicised debates.

Turning this young person into some sort of story or totem to show that Girlguiding were misguided in their decision, is just so wrong.

Of all the things that never happened, this didn't happen the most.

The child should be taken into care, and the parents arrested for child abuse.

Yes, but taking him to Scouts wouldn't create quite so much drama would it! Heaven forbidden they just got on with life without making a scene by going to Brownies 🙄

Poor little boy. He's a victim of terrible, abusive parenting.

Exactly this. What the hell has this child be exposed to and what gender bullshit have this child’s parents brainwashed their SON with. This needs a social services and safeguarding investigation, but not for the reason the TRAs think.

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.