Friend's child. Is this worrying?

No, it is wrong cultish behaviour. I loved trucks, planes, cars and wore boy clothes and a baseball cap and was called a boys Nick name until my teens. No one thought I was actually a boy. I’m totally not a man now just a normal person who isn’t big on dresses.

That poor child. Realistically, I'm not sure that parents this far down the transing such a young child rabbit hole would be able to step back and listen or reconsider?
Have a listen to Helen Joyce (author of Trans, when ideology meets reality) talking about parents who transition their children. It's a hard listen but I fear is very realistic:

https://www.tiktok.com/@peterboghossian/video/7252427901528771883

My son did much the same - wanted to be like his older sister. He would announce "My sister's a girl, and I'm a girl and Daddy's a robot"

(DH was a bit put out... )

I think for the child to rapidly de-transition would be an almost impossible step for this family.

but trans-kids can become non-binary kids who don't fit any pattern and haven't decided what to do. I would promote non-binary role models to the child & parents, because that will give them all a 'way out' if or when they are ready to take it.

Very worrying. My 3 year old says she's all kinds of things. Poor kid

We all know this child is not trans.
This is the result of a lot of older men who transitioned later in life, but instead of saying its agp because they know people will avoid them, they rewrite history and tell everyone they knew as a very young child they were trans.
Its bullshit, we all know this.

That sounds very, very hard to watch, OP.

A seven year old girl likes to play with trucks ... this is really in no way unusual or of note.

The trouble is that there are enormously powerful entities lined up supporting the idea that a 'trans child' exists, and furthermore needs to be medically treated.

I really hope the wee girl is okay and that they leave her alone to grow and play with whatever bloody toys she wants to play with, wear what she wants, and eventually, love who she wants.

The thing is, when put on puberty blockers prior to experiencing any pubertal development, and then moving on to cross sex hormones, the child will never be able to experience an unmedicated development process. Medical transition is not a process that can be easily stopped and cannot be fully reversed once certain points are passed.

How can the child possibly consider a change of mind when they've been coached into this for more than half their life already. It would be a huge step, to reject what has been told to them for so long.

This sounds insane

My 2.5yo pretends to be a dog/frog/cat/dinosaur can you imagine if I went along with it seriously? Insane.

Your friends are abusing their child. You don’t have to be cool with it.

Jeez that's bloody awful. and why on earth are only boys allowed to love trucks? How bizarre.
I grew up loving football, hating dresses and dollys, and wanting all the things considered "boyish". I'm still not very feminine as an adult and yet I'm a woman and fine with that. To change a child's identity like that so young is really appalling.

"Where do they think all the 'trans children' were in previous generations? Why aren't there lots and lots of middle-aged transmen? You'd think all the girls who couldn't transition in childhood would be making up for lost time now it's not taboo."

Been saying this since I first came across the exponential increase in girls identifying as boys. Never received an answer.

I mean, what can you do? You'll probably get probed for a hate crime or bigotry or something, seeing as SS and the police aren't on the children's side in this.

My son, when I had two girls, asked me to buy him dresses like them (this is when they grew older and developed their own preferences for hairstyles, toys etc) and to put his hair in little pigtails and buy him a little doll (which he still has to this day years later). He just wanted to be the same as his sisters. He grew out of it.

Some day, this little girl will grow up and wonder how her parents could have done this to her. It might be worth the risk to to your friendship

yes, I’d say very worrying but I’m not sure what you can do as if you raise it you’ll likely just be cut off given the depth they are in to this. Do you think they may listen to an alternative view? Giving them the “watchful waiting” option could be good if they will listen to alternatives. If the child has been called the boy name for 4 years though that’s difficult to change in itself.

My DS said he wanted to be a girl at 3. When probed for 2 mins, it turned out he wanted to have babies and thought women could be mummies but didn’t realise the baby was half daddy. I reassured him he could be a parent and then he was fine with being a boy. The conversation was over in 5 minutes.

This is very worrying. In the US they will give puberty blockers to 10 year old children

... little girl's parents.

yes they really need to listen to this. .. its VERY similiar to your friends situation

At 3 years old it seems to me that there's a possibility that being a boy was appealing since the only boy in the house (the new baby) was naturally getting a lot of attention.

This seems so obvious to a complete stranger on the internet. But apparently not to this little girl

That is absolutely horrifying. What other big decision would we allow a 3 year old, or even a 7 year old, to take?

Gish, that's really worrying. To block a child's puberty, and potentially destroy their fertility based on the say so of a three year old is insane.

My DS said he was Spiderman when he was three. I didn't let him get bitten by a radioactive spider!!

This is a form of abuse in my opinion.

Look at it like this - when my Dd was 3 she announced that her name was Peppa Pig. When my ds was 3 he announced that he was called Thomas the Tank Engine.