Allsorts Brighton

[rocket74]

Hi - does anyone have experience, stories, good or bad about Allsorts.
I am well read about them, extremely gender critical, very much against the born in the wrong body rhetoric.
My DD13 has asked to go to their groups via CAMHS. Which means she is vulnerable to suggestions, ASC, mental health issues.
she wants to bind her very minimal chest - but I don’t want to support this due to damage and pain.

How do I negotiate between being a very GC parent who is sick of labels and boxes and body mutilation and lying to children - with a DD who is trying to find her place. I don’t want her being led down a path of no return.
I hate this whole trans bullshit. She doesn’t have gender dysphoria - this has no way been a hidden lifelong trauma. It’s just made to seem so easy and normal to chop up their bodies. Grrr.

I must also add I am 100% fine with whatever sexuality they decide they are. But the T is not part of that. T is about controlling everyone around you to babystep and control over your body and bloody pronouns. Like anorexia. Like self harm. Like joining a cult.

I am in a similar situation to you and but not in Brighton and don't know about all sorts. I have found the info on the bayswater site very helpful. I think their recommended tack it to try to focus on maintaining a good relationship with your child but not at the cost of accepting any potentially damaging changes.

https://www.bayswatersupport.org.uk/

I have basically said to my daughter that she will always be the same person regardless of what she wears or how she looks and that I will always love her and that I know that she is having a really hard time and that we will help her to get support.

I am guessing that you are feeling pretty angry, as I was, at the moment. Don't forget that it is often part of being a teen that they are part of a group which they perceive to be hated by everyone and have been rejected by their families so I would be really careful not to be interpreted as the baddy as it will be very difficult to back out of that story.