Rebekah Robertson - the Australian Susie Green

There is an extraordinarily hard moment where a very young Georgie is forced to use the boys’ bathroom at the swimming pool and Robertson waits for her outside the door, to the sounds of her child’s trauma: “When I recall this moment,” she writes, “I think about how hard it is to dress wet skin quickly.”

Um alot of kids that age tantrum over this kind of thing...

Both those poor children were abused, by the forced transition of this poor child. The only consolation for the poor neglected twin is that he has escaped without the physical abuse inflicted on his poor sibling. I fucking hate the fact that I’ll be deleted for correctly sexing both children.

Her first words were “Mum, I want a vagina..

IM FUCKEN RAGING. IN CAPITALS.

For fuck fucken sake.

Witch hunts? Meh Hold my beer.

Another Susie Green.

These mothers and their offspring certainly seem to be spending lots of time in the limelight too, with TV shows and media appearances.

Robertson did not experience grief in this way. For her there was total consistency with who Georgie was, there was no “change from one thing to another” in her mind. After giving birth to twins in 2000, both of whom were assigned male, in contrast to her brother Harry, Georgie’s female identity became apparent very early on. This was expressed in both her relationship to her body and her interests. From Buzz Lightyear to toy trucks, “[Georgie] feminised everything” and Robertson found herself bracing for the judgment of others.

Where do I begin?
'Assigned male at birth'
'Feminised everything'
'Judgement of others'

This really is 'Butterfly - the sequel.'

Her first words were “Mum, I want a vagina.”

Bullshit.

Why certain newspapers fawn over obvious lies is beyond me.

My son's first word was 'dinner', which he pronounced more like 'din-AH'. It is unusual for a first word to be of the two syllable variety, a whole sentence including a word that a year to 18 month old boy has quite likely never heard? Aye right.

This story seems common to so many transitioning children. I cannot help wondering how much of it is a rewriting of history to bolster up such a huge decision about their child's life.

"Around about two [years old], I could see a different way of expressing themselves between Georgie and Harry," Rebekah, Georgie's Mum told Mia Freedman.

They were given the same toys, but interpreted them in different ways: Buzz Lightyear became Miranova - the female space ranger; Tonka Trucks took on female characteristics and carried Barbies.

Is it still the 1950s in Australia?

According to

www.mercatornet.com/mobile/view/inspirational-transgender-lives-what-ever-happened-to-healthy-scepticism

Greg and Bec, both actors, were older parents when they married in 1999. They were rattled by the arrival of twins. They spent so much time supporting the transgender twin that they neglected Harry. He lamented in the program that he fell into a deep depression "for quite a few years" – and he is still only 16.

I'm sorry, I was doing some googling, and this came up so I had to share...

"The first words in a child’s life are simple.

It’s usually a single word; easy to say; and probably mispronounced.

This wasn’t the case, however, for Georgie Stone.

Her first words were “Mum, I want a vagina.”"

www.mamamia.com.au/georgie-stone-transgender-teen/

The resolve this required did not come without cost to the family. Harry’s needs were lost in the economisation of time and the interrogation of Georgie’s identity and family left its mark on her too.

I'd like to know more about the effect on Harry (Georgie's brother) of his twin brother becoming his sister. They say his 'needs were lost', so was he neglected and ignored? That sounds like cruelty to him as well as his confused sibling (although it might have been their mother who was confused by a boy who she thought wasn't showing masculine enough behaviour).