...link me to exact proof that kids are being told they are trans if they like the opposite gendered stuff?
Susie Green is Chair of Mermaids
There are a lot of stories about Susie and Jackie Green. The story is about how Jack became Jackie, and lead to Susie being CEO of Mermaids.
4thwavenow.com/tag/susie-green/
www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/851138/i-had-sex-swap-op-on-my-16th-birthday/
Jackie, who was born Jack, knew she wanted to switch genders from the age of four.
Susie, who is divorced from Jackie’s dad, said: “As a toddler Jack wanted to go to the aisle of dolls and cuddly toys in Toys R Us. He put jumpers on his head as they felt like long hair and he loved Barbie.”
Thinking it was a phase, mum-of-four Susie happily let her son, the eldest of four boys, raid her wardrobe.
We were in the car when Jack was four and he said to me,
‘Mummy, God has made a mistake, I’m really a girl’. At the age of six he
told me he wanted a sex change operation.
“I have three younger sons and they were all into trucks and football, whereas Jack wanted girly dresses and dolls. I tried to ban his dolls and girls toys but I couldn’t force him to be miserable so I let him have the toys back.
“Despite being the complete opposite of Jackie when she was their age, my three sons are very supportive of their sister.
“It was only when I saw the boys growing up, running around pretending to be soldiers, that I realised just how big the difference was between them and Jackie.”
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/how-to-deal-with-a-transexual-teenage-daughter-by-a-mother-who-knows-8329471.html
When Jack Green was four years old, he told his mother 'God made a mistake, I should have been a girl'.
“As soon as he was old enough to toddle he was in my wardrobe, trying on my clothes. When he was two his nursery rang and said ‘Jack doesn’t play with the other boys, when the dressing up box comes out he goes straight for the pinafore’. I said ‘I know, let him get on with it, he’ll grow out of it,’” Susie Green recalls.
In her case, Green says, it had been obvious since her child was very young that “something wasn’t right”, and seeing Jack struggle to tally a feminine sense of self with an increasingly masculine body made fully supporting her eldest child her only option.
One of the first things the therapist said was ‘would you make your younger sons wear a dress’?
Jackie started the transition when she was 10: “The clinic told us to allow her to dress up at home but to remain a boy outside of the house to make it easier in case she ever wanted to go back.
www.wikihow.com/Determine-if-a-Child-is-Transgender
Notice if your child has gender non-conforming tendencies. Maybe you have seen that your female child likes to play with toys that are generally considered “male." Keep in mind that just because your daughter likes to play with trucks does not mean that she is transgender. However, if your child consistently displays a strong preference for things that don’t conform to gender expectations, it could be something to keep an eye on.
Look for signs along the way. A child who is transgender will usually show many signs of their true gender. Their imaginary play usually suggests their gender, as well as how they want to dress and groom themselves. A child may be transgender if they show many of these signs:[3]
Insisting on shopping in the girls/boys section
Choosing a boy/girl name for themselves
Preferring friends of the opposite sex (who have the child's desired gender)
Making a fuss over haircuts
Frequently pretending to be book or movie characters who share their desired gender
Hating their genitals
Looking up to older boys/girls and wanting to be just like them
Begging for books or toys that say "for boys" or "for girls"
Wanting to reincarnate as their true gender
Crying over the sex they were assigned at birth[4]
Being much happier when you let them do something related to the gender they want
Notice signs of unhappiness at being pushed into the wrong gender role. For example, if your "son" screams and screams over a haircut because she can't bear having short hair, or if your "sister" cries when told that he can't get clothes from the boy's section, this is a sign that your child is transgender. Gender is important, so your child may feel (and act) like the world is ending if they have to pretend to be someone they are not.
www.care.com/c/stories/12502/my-child-may-be-transgender-what-do-i-need-to-know/
Is my child transgender? What experts say parents need to know
Amber Briggle, a mom of two from the greater Dallas area, says her transgender son Max told her that he was a boy at age 2. “Max has always identified as a boy,” she says. “He told me using his own words when he was 2. We were coming home from preschool one day, and he said, ‘Mom, I’m not a girl, I'm a boy, and I like Spider-Man.
www.parents.com/parenting/my-transgender-child-this-is-how-i-know/
My Child Is Transgender: This Is How I Know
I thought I had a daughter. Then I thought I had a tomboy. But now I know: I have a son.
“I believe in reincarnation," my 4-year-old announced, confidently. "And when I come back, I'm going to be a boy, and my name will be Shane."
My breath caught in my throat. What did she just say?
Until that moment, I'd seen my rough-and-tumble girl as a tomboy who loved mud puddles, forts, superheroes, zombies, and Hot Wheels. Brave and true, she was 35 pounds of adorable awesomeness.
Or was it more than that? Didn't she always choose the boy pieces in Chutes and Ladders? Weren't her closest friends boys? Did she ever once play with the My Little Pony she got for Christmas? Hadn't every pink or purple outfit ended up in the Goodwill bag, unworn? Didn't she enjoy it when other people mistook her for a boy?
Did she want to be a boy so badly that she was looking forward to death and a do-over?