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Poor kid

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Pratchet · 16/06/2018 17:00

someone should answer for this

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RubyShooFan · 16/06/2018 17:33

Oh they’d live in Leeds Hmm

Mail readers ie the general public seem horrified by this.

This is the sort of thing that needs to go in AIBU.

Cwenthryth · 16/06/2018 17:32

I started to type a reply picking through the more ridiculous points in that article, and then deleted it.... honestly, I think this child being featured in a national newspaper is abusive in itself. It’s just not ok - they weren’t comfortable to go school ‘as a boy’ to the point where they school refused, yet somehow telling the whole nation they “are LGBT”(?) is acceptable?

Just no. Honestly I don’t think any good can come from commenting on this article, it’s DM clickbait. It speaks for itself anyway - anyone with an ounce of logic can see what is happening to this child.

It’s heartbreaking and maddening, but I think we should take care when commenting on specific cases.

Trishtrash · 16/06/2018 17:24

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Pratchet · 16/06/2018 17:24

Why is no one asking or trying to find out what made it so terrible being a girl 2 years ago.. .that trying to identify out of it was the answer

This, with knobs on

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Trishtrash · 16/06/2018 17:22

‘Wouldn’t let me put makeup on her’ Brothers ‘protecting’ her remaining daughter. Burning a bra. At 12 (or even earlier) What gender restrictive nonsense has this child been fed? Lots by the sounds of it.

Gileswithachainsaw · 16/06/2018 17:21

Why is no one asking or trying to find out what made it so terrible being a girl 2 years ago.. .that trying to identify out of it was the answer

Pratchet · 16/06/2018 17:21

Sterilising children who have a healthy body is child abuse. There will be law suits down the road.

Insane that a grown woman can't be trusted to know that she has completed her family and wants her tubes tied, but a 12-year-old is apparently capable of deciding to set out on a path towards becoming a lifelong medical patient.

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busyboysmum · 16/06/2018 17:15

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fascinated · 16/06/2018 17:13

Mum of six
The Dad doesn’t seem to be mentioned? What does he think I wonder?

UpstartCrow · 16/06/2018 17:13

I have trouble with the narrative that a child used the words 'I was born in the wrong body'. Children just dont think like that and they don't talk like that.

NotTerfNorCis · 16/06/2018 17:10

'He only decided he was a boy two years ago. He was happy wearing dresses before. '

Hmmmmm.

Gileswithachainsaw · 16/06/2018 17:09

Have the parent(s) even looked into the issues around the blockers?

This is so worrying I cannot believe the child cant just Have short hair and "boys pants" as a girl. .

fascinated · 16/06/2018 17:07

Drip, drip, drip... stories like these normalise it... brave etc etc

Lifesavingorange · 16/06/2018 17:05

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therealposieparker · 16/06/2018 17:04

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