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Holly Branson - identified as boy for a decade before desisting

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nevertrustaherdofcows · 14/07/2020 22:00

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8521783/Holly-Branson-reveals-dressed-peed-like-boy-11.html

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frazzledasarock · 14/07/2020 23:48

Pretty sure I read somewhere Shiloh Pitt-Jolie has been put on puberty blockers.

SerenityNowwwww · 14/07/2020 23:41

My sister wore a top hat and tails to a relatives wedding!

CloudsCanLookLikeSheep · 14/07/2020 23:40

I now realise why she wore a suit to her parents wedding as a young child. As she should be able to, if she wants.

SerenityNowwwww · 14/07/2020 23:22

My sister ‘dressed as a boy’, had ‘boys’ toys, short hair etc. My parents just let her get on with it. God alone knows what would have happened to her in the school system these days. Granted she still wears ‘boys clothes’ but has been known to wear a dress (rarely but it has happened of her own feee will).

GiantKitten · 14/07/2020 23:20

Shiloh Jolie-Pitt is another. Afaik with her too it’s just accepted by the family & they don’t make a big deal out of it. Hoping it’ll stay that way...

micky.com.au/angelina-jolie-speaks-about-daughter-shiloh-dressing-like-a-boy/?amp

SerenityNowwwww · 14/07/2020 23:14

Really? I always thought virgin as being quite a rainbow company. That doesn’t quite match with the current trends does it?

Xanthangum · 14/07/2020 23:13

This gives me hope

Beamur · 14/07/2020 23:10

One of my female relations decided she was a boy. Dressed as a boy, used a boy's name - maybe for 3 or 4 years. No-one really thought much about it, went along with it. After a while she started using her given name again and decided she wasn't a boy after all.

twoHopes · 14/07/2020 23:08

Interesting that she said she started identifying as a boy shortly after her younger brother was born. I've not really thought that much about the influence of siblings on gender identity but it makes a lot of sense.

wellbehavedwomen · 14/07/2020 22:48

That's lovely, and exactly what you would hope parents would do. Not pathologise, not make it a big deal, just allow a kid to be a kid and get on with living. Perfect.

A friend's mother used to make her wear incredibly girly stuff all the time, and she hated it. Always struck me as shitty, when parents ladle their dreams and expectations on their kids - in any direction. Just let them get on with growing up who they are, and don't make a fuss, or make their identity part of your own.

Floatyboat · 14/07/2020 22:48

Exactly!

EdgeOfACoin · 14/07/2020 22:33

Concluding her post, she wrote: 'I’m sharing my experience because the love and support my parents gave me taught me one of life’s most important lessons: we should respect everyone’s right to be who they want to be - with no judgement.

Seems to me her parents let her get on with it. They didn't take her to the doctor, go to Mermaids or put her on puberty blockers. They just said 'that's nice, dear' and then she eventually grew out of it.

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