My son is nearly 10 and the other day was flicking through Netflix and came across a cartoon with a trans character as the lead and so asked me what trans meant. I answered his question but I don’t think it was particularly balanced as it was based on my own GC point of view. Any advice on how I can tackle this question fairly and objectively?
This is the show in question. He’s not watched it yet and I don’t know if he will but if it’s a good show he might (he wasn’t sure from the trailer, which he just found confusing).
www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a40300139/dead-end-netflix-musical-queer-lgbtq/
My son was also left quite confused as I said that Barney was born a girl and now identifies as a boy and my son thought it was the other way round - “I thought it was a boy pretending to be a girl” to quote him directly - and I don’t think was convinced that I had it the right way round!
Obviously this is an issue that is going to come up more as he gets older and I want to be able to talk to him about it properly.