Fighting For Care For My Trans Child - The GenderGP Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
Saw a link to this on Twitter. It's from two years ago, which almost certainly means the poor kid featured is now well established on puberty blockers at the age of 12 or 13. It's about 55 minutes long. Features Dr Helen Webberley, Marianne Oakes, Head of Therapies at Gender GP, and a mother called Lindsay who has a child called Danny. She explains how Danny transitioned at the age of 5. Danny was 10 at the time of the podcast.
Danny is female and Lindsay is keen to get her child onto hormone blockers asap. It's like listening to a mirror version of Susie Green from 20 years earlier. Lindsay explains at length how delighted she was to have a daughter. She bought her child girly clothes, insisted on the child having long hair, tipped off Danny's dad that it looked as if their child would be a lesbian when she was older because she liked boys' games and toys and hated the pretty clothes, etc etc. Not surprisingly, Danny became very upset and angry with the world and at the age of 5 told her Mum that she wasn't a girl, she was a boy.
Now, to most of us, it would be obvious that a child of 5 struggling to make sense of the world has jumped to an erroneous conclusion here. Told repeatedly that all the things she likes are for boys and all the things she hates are for girls, she sees an obvious solution - I'm a boy! What is so desperately sad is that Lindsay thinks Danny is right and when she talks to the SEND co-ordinator at Danny's school she's referred to the Tavistock.
To be fair to the Tavistock, it sounds as Lindsay jumped the gun at this point and socially transitioned Danny immediately, and in the teeth of objections from Danny's dad, who wanted to take things slowly. (They are now divorced.) When they were eventually seen at the Tavistock, after a long wait, caution was advised but it was far too late. Lindsay has 'done the research' and feels she knows far more about what's happening to her child than anyone she sees at the Tavistock. If Lindsay has a background in science and/or health care, she doesn't mention it. Accordingly, I'm amazed that she feels able to say she has fully understood the medical implications of her child transitioning.
Now she's with Gender GP because she can't get puberty blockers through the Tavistock. She's cross because her GP won't administer them because of Dr Webberly being struck off. Imagine the gall of a GP refusing to work with a struck off doctor! 
Danny has ADHD and has been through a family break up. Another couple of markers often seen in cases like this.
I will just add that Marianne's contributions are very useful, not least because of Marianne's voice. Marianne is the one on the left below.