Britain's youngest trans child

When DD was 4 she wanted all her hair cut off and to wear boys (and girls) clothes. Absolutely fine. We let her be who she wanted to be. At 4 years old there was no way we'd say she must be a boy because of how she wants to look and dress.

She very much thought of herself as a girl but just liked "boy stuff". She eventually grew her hair out and started liking pink because society rams it down our throats that that's what it is to be a girl. It makes me so angry that this bullshit is still going on today. The remarks we got such as "she can't wear that it's a boys jumper" really made me despair.

I bet they like the attention it gives them to make them feel like super cool lo parents sigh bet they’re turned vegan recently too 🙄 course that little girl won’t be messed up.......

Is there a link to this article?

the idea of asking your small child at aged 2, 3, 4 whether they "feel like a girl" or "feel like a boy"

I don't think I would have been able to answer that at 4. I certainly can't at 10 times the age.

I can imagine maybe I would have given an answer, but only because I wasn't mature/knowledgeable enough to understand the true meaning of the question. Or rather its lack of meaning.

Or possibly, given 4-year-old logic, I would have given the answer that I thought would get me what I wanted. I don't think 4-year-olds are big on truth, but they're down with manipulation, if anyone is dim enough to be manipulated by a 4-year-old.

That’s just appalling. I skimmed the article as it’s so painful and predictable, but was there any mention of the mother?
Stereotypes are so harmful. Those poor children

'Yay, my girl doesn't want to be constrained by the social norms and prejudices that we have enforced upon her by demonstrating so clearly that her brother is treated differently because of his sex, so we are forcing her into the boy box because that suits us.....'

'Accepting people for who they are is the only way to encourage innovation, embrace growth and harness the best in everyone. I have permission from my son to post this. He is proud of who he is

Your daughter is 4, she cannot meaningfully consent to being in a national newspaper.

This reminds me of the Rogers family. I know the family and know that the child is now living with his biological dad after being removed from his dad and stepparent and is a boy again.

I'm very bothered by parents whose child had to have A Conversation with them in order to be able to play with what they want. How unresponsive and cold of them.

I can't understand, as an adult and a parent, the idea of asking your small child at aged 2, 3, 4 whether they "feel like a girl" or "feel like a boy" in response to them making a statement about being a boy/girl. Especially if they have opposite sex siblings. It is simply an opportunity to explain that they are a boy/girl and that boys/girls have different bodies and that none of that matters when it comes to clothes, playing, friendships, colours etc etc.

As for the parent "asking permission" to post photos on LinkedIn and elsewhere... it beggars belief. A nursery aged child cannot possibly understand the consequences of such publicity nor be responsible for making the decision.

A female toddler notices that male twin is treated differently, wants to play with the same toys and asks to wear comfy clothes.

The ONLY response to this should surely be 'ok' play with ANY toy, wear what you like, not tell the child they must be a boy.

I bet they would've done the same if their son had asked to wear pigtails and push a pram.

I know a parent like this. They have honestly ruined their kids and social services too scared to touch.

How have the parents not considered that the 'pretty' clothes were uncomfortable and less practical than the boys' section. Kids consider these things high priority.
Stupid, stupid parents.

(comments are turned on now btw)

'I am so proud that he knows who he is and isn't constrained by societal norms and prejudices. We can all learn something from this small boy and I learn every day. Everyone is different.'

Dear God. A girl who doesn't like pigtails.

He added in the post: 'We all need accept that people are different and not try to force those around us to fit into a box that suits us.

He can't be this stupid.

Strangely, sometimes the child says they are non-binary.

Is this father for real?

The idiocy of this.
How many children will be collateral damage in this movement ?
I know someone with a “non binary” ten year old. 🙄

Do they really think this would have happened if both twins had been girls? She wants to be just like her brother, that doesn't make her a boy, it just means that at age 4 she wants to be like her brother.

Of course it wouldn't have happened if they were both girls as its clear from the pictures and their comments that had they had 2 girls they wouldn't have ever brought them trucks, cars, fire fighter/police dress up clothing or any other 'boys' toy. They would have only been allowed to dress head to toe in pink and purple, play with dolls or wear princess dresses.

Interested in firefighters? What is this?! So incredibly sexist.

Who knew that all female firefighters were, in fact, men. Transmen.

When my child was 4 she maintained for many months that she was a cat. I did not make her eat on the floor and shit in a box. Ffs. The world has gone mad. She is FOUR!

Well I can beat that. My 20 month old son has a screaming tantrum if I won't let him wear my head bands, always wants to play with his sisters dolls and loves his PINK scuttlebug - clearly he's a girl.

Or in the real world he's just a little child experimenting and playing with everything he wants to, there are no 'boys toys and girls toys' just interesting things.

Do they really think this would have happened if both twins had been girls? She wants to be just like her brother, that doesn't make her a boy, it just means that at age 4 she wants to be like her brother. At age 14 she's just as likely to want to be just like the most current female pop star.

It’s one of two things for the parents - a desperation to have a “speshul” child or raging misogyny/homophobia.

With an added side of the need for very public validation.

Looks like they gender stereotyped the bejasus out of both children from birth.