Britain's youngest trans child

This is crazy!!! My youngest is just about to turn four, born female!! But has been 'a boy' since she could speak and assert that she's a boy. So if it comes up, we say 'good boy' etc and that's it, not a big deal, I'm assuming she'll grow out of it or not, cross that bridge when we get to it ....surely a massive number of children go through this stage....
Are the parents just after attention? Why would you do this it's heartbreaking

Unbelievably sexist and verging on child abuse. Poor girl

This is absolutely terrifying, that poor poor child. Agree the only referral should be to social services.

I keep hoping that I'm going to wake up soon, and this mad dystopian world will have been a nightmare.

My son wanted to be a dinosaur when he was 4. I wanted to be the Incredible Hulk at that age. We're going backwards not forward.

What a load of bullshit.

So much damage being done to that poor child, and probably her brother too, the only referal that needs to be done is to social services!

Poor child.

I think the parents want this more than the child.

This is all about the parents. They know full well what putting their child in the DM will do and they dont care

From Dr David Bell's interview in The Guardian
"Among these concerns were the fact that children attending GIDS often seemed to be rehearsed and sometimes did not share their parents’ sense of urgency"

www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/02/tavistock-trust-whistleblower-david-bell-transgender-children-gids?fbclid=IwAR3hxw9h-Ei27RacbXOT0VMLb0nnIR8vGvDdHw9-wBDhhRjjxKIv0koKuTo

FFS on this logic my sister would have transitioned to being Superman in the early 80s and dd2 would have been living life as a cat for 10 years (although she probably would have started to detransition about 8 years ago).

www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9544807/amp/Father-trans-boy-4-says-people-insist-calling-son-girl.html

No comments. Must be turned off. I wonder why.

Sounds like a really bright little girl: she’s noticed her twin brother gets a much better deal already, by the age of four, and she wants in on that.

Child abuse at the hands of parents and any professional taking this preference literally.

I might order this, sounds interesting: www.waterstones.com/book/fire-woman/josephine-reynolds/9781782436997

The Daily Wail are many things, but not stupid. They knew this story would get this kind of response. All sunlight on madness.

Christ that was a depressing read. The whole argument was basically this child wanted to be just like their twin brother. To wear the same clothes, play with the same toys and to have their hair the same as their sibling.

If this child's parents had allowed them to do that as so many parents of girls have done for generations instead of forcing them into dresses, playing with 'girls' toys or having their hair in pigtails then I'd bet my entire life fortune on the fact this child would be a comfortable happy Tom boy who didn't feel the need to swap to being a boy so they could do those things without their parents judgement.

This should be illegal.

My now 12 year old DD was obsessed with trains, emergency vehicles, helicopters and trucks. She never liked (and still doesnt) dresses and "pretty" clothing and currently is obsessed with mythical beasts and lives in jeggings and hoodies.

'There's no such thing as a trans child.'

This X 1000000

Jesus Christ, is there no limit to some people's stupidity? Does their need to feel special trump absolutely everything, including their child's welfare, and actual REALITY?! This ignorant, sexist claptrap being celebrated as progressive and enlightened - can't take it. Dear god, these poor kids

What I can never fathom is the decision to publicise the child's life in this really intrusive way. I wouldn't dream of putting the life of my 4 year old child into the public eye in this way, I cannot see any explanation for why it's appropriate or helpful. It seems to be more about attention for the parents than for the wellbeing of the child.

My 18 month old DD is obsessed with pointing out trucks, she also has a jacket with diggers on it - maybe I should rename her Fred asap 🙄.

Poor baby, this is just appalling, why can’t they just let their child be who she is. I always wonder if this is some sort of munchausen by proxy type of thing with these parents.

I have a “trains” child.

When he was 4 he announced that his name was Thomas (as in Tank Engine) and refused to answer to anything else. He also said “choo choo” and “chugga chugga” a lot.

Should I have had his legs amputated and him fitted with wheels instead?

Can’t find the article but yikes.
You can’t have grown up conversations about gender with kids, it’s hard enough having grown up conversations about gender with adults!

As a child I hated dresses and loved climbing trees and had an army of plastic dinosaurs. None of that means I was actually a boy!

There's no such thing as a trans child.

This particular kid can make her own choices when she is an adult, meanwhile it's the job of the adults around her now to encourage her to explore the world and how she fits in it, without jamming her into a box.

Abuse. Abuse. Abuse. Poor child needs taking the hell out of there.

Because there fire fighters and police officers can’t be women??

FFS. Normal child development being medicalised, fetishised even.

No they don't understand that biology is immutable under the age of 7 or so. Same as it might take a child a while to understand object permanence and they cry when their Mum leaves the room. However, the answer isn't for the Mum to accept that she literally no longer exists for her child and fuck off on a round the world trip alone. No, she plays peekaboo, reassures them and tells her child the truth as developmentally appropriate to their age and stage.

JESUS WEPT.

What an appalling story. I just don't understand how we've gone BACKWARDS as a society in this regard.

Poor, poor girl.