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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 18:20

I can’t find the thread, I think it was @popchyk did a really good post though?

If she hasn’t been banned perhaps she can direct you.

MumofBoysx2 · 16/06/2018 18:20

It such a shame there is such total gender stereotyping. You have to be either a boy or a girl, and there is still so much stigma attached to people wanting to live as the opposite sex to their birth gender. If we were all much more accepting of people as being either boy, girl or all shades in between maybe people wouldn't feel the need to have to go to extremes and make irreversible changes to their bodies just to 'snap' to the correct sex according to their feelings. Pumping this poor boy's body full of drugs seems such a harsh way to help him feel happy.

OrchidInTheSun · 16/06/2018 18:13

Amber - it's Mermaids, West Yorkshire police (who pursued Posie Parker), a charity for LGBT youth where the staff were allowed to have sexual relationships with their clients and a few other unsavoury things.

Poor kid, having their face splashed all over the papers. They can't change their mind now can they?

AmberLangslow · 16/06/2018 18:11

Here is the original story.

www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/boy-12-changes-name-charlotte-1682446

AmberLangslow · 16/06/2018 18:10

She doesn’t live in Leeds - Hessle is 50 miles away or so.

RubyShooFan · 16/06/2018 18:09

Amber the article said she lived in Leeds?

There’s threads on here about how a lot of anti women things have been centred around Leeds/Yorkshire.

I’ll see if I can find and link.

AmberLangslow · 16/06/2018 18:08

The story has been lifted from the local press - pretty much word for word (except for the location which the DM effed up).

BettyDuMonde · 16/06/2018 18:06

Growing your hair/not brushing it because you don’t like it to be messed with and not wanting someone to put something on your face sounds a) pretty reasonable to me and b) more like sensory processing disorder/ASD (if you really want to labe it).

AmberLangslow · 16/06/2018 18:06

What’s the Leeds connection? Is it the Mermaids woman? Hessle is not particularly close to Leeds - it’s an hour to an hour and a half’s drive away. CAMHS services in the area have been really badly cut back though so unlikely they’ll have had any support from them.

Moloyolofrolo · 16/06/2018 17:58

So much, so wrong.

Strigiformes · 16/06/2018 17:51

This is so sad. So what if she rejects gender stereotypes? The poor, poor thing.

AssassinatedBeauty · 16/06/2018 17:48

Why is the mum allowing her young child to be made public like this in such a widely read newspaper/website? How much do you get paid by the DM for stories like this?

GenderApostate · 16/06/2018 17:47

Where are Social Services in all this? Or have they all had Mermaids —brainwashing— ‘training’ ?

LassWiADelicateAir · 16/06/2018 17:45

According to the mum-of-six, Gabriel had always been a bit of a tomboy. He had long hair which he would never let his mum do anything with and he would never let her put make-up on his face

Who puts make up on a child that young? The mother is an idiot.

Cwenthryth · 16/06/2018 17:43

scotsheather my understanding is near 100% of children who start “puberty blockers” go on to cross-sex hormones - never becoming fertile in the first place, if started early enough. These drugs are also being used off-licence, we simply do not know the long term effects of these drugs being used in children, but in adults when used as treatment for medical issues they can have horrific side effects.

heresyandwitchcraft · 16/06/2018 17:43

I can't even read it, because I'm getting too emotional from the photos. I really hope this is the right decision for this young person, and that they have a happy life. But this makes me so very sad.

isthistoonosy · 16/06/2018 17:42

Not on topic but is anyone else gobsmacked that she had her fifth kid at 23, or did I read that wrong?

busyboysmum · 16/06/2018 17:40

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Pratchet · 16/06/2018 17:39

The off-label powerful cancer drugs which are used to block puberty, followed by cross-sex hormones, will sterilise a child. The drugs alone can mean a child never grows into full fertility, and also impact brain development. They aren't reversible, and more to the point, most kids who take blockers do go on to hormones. (Ask a transactivist about desistance. They will tell you it doesn't exist.)

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RubyShooFan · 16/06/2018 17:38

He had long hair which he would never let his mum do anything with and he would never let her put make-up on his face

WTAF!?! While I’ve nothing against small children playing dress up with make up, why is an adult trying to put make up on a small child???

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Pratchet · 16/06/2018 17:35

They live in Yorkshire. Right. Blimey. It's all a bit coincidental.

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Sarahconnor1 · 16/06/2018 17:35

Leeds again. There's a surprise

scotsheather · 16/06/2018 17:35

Do blockers actually make a kid sterile? Permanently? I'm all for kids presenting as they want and even using the name they want is hardly a big deal, doing things to their body when there is no medical need is a step too far for me.

RubyShooFan · 16/06/2018 17:35

I agree that this CHILD should not be being featured in a national newspaper and the munchausen by proxy angle is definitely worthy of some proper research.

AmberLangslow · 16/06/2018 17:33

It’s in Hessle in East Yorkshire not Leeds. Hessle Academy was mentioned in the Grauniad for trans issues.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/education/2018/may/15/transgender-row-teachers-afraid-challenge-breast-binding