Age 8 and wanting a sex change

[MuffinToptheMule]

On C4 now. Anyone else watching?

hesays, suppose it's a fine line between supporting and activly encouraging
some the scenes where one of the mums was saying, oh if you woke up with a vaginia would be just brill etc.
and then saying well if you want to get boobs you need to get the shots
then going on the net and showing her child photos of other sexchange children

seemed a bit, errr, overly encouraging to me.

I watched a bit of this prog last night.

At first I thought it was great that the parents,families, doctors etc were listening to the children and supporting them . Also thought it was great that they could start the transformation so early (or rather prevent puberty prior to later transformation).

However there was then one statement made in the voiceover that made me think again. I can't remember the exact wording but it was along the lines of "In the majority of cases children grow out of GD".

What happens to those children who live as the opposite sex from age 8, have their puberty stopped, take meds etc and then "grow out of" it?

It is a very fine line, certainly. The problem is that programmes like this never show the build up, the years of tiny things that have amounted to one huge thing, the tears and the strife involved in making the decisions - of curse you also have to remember that it is a TV programme and anyone who has read the recruiting on here will know that producers have some very specific requirements - some may say specific enough to skew the whole programme. Finally the whole point of the programme is to show children being supported through the change so the parents will have been shown doing that in as many ways as possible. How pushy that is depends on how long they were filming for, if those insidences took place over the course of 6months filming then it is different than if it was 6 days filming IYSWIM.

I refuse to slate the parents doing this but I do feel uncomfortable with it I have to say.

Norbert, they did say that but they did not say how many who have realligned grow out of it, they did not say if they were talking only about those who have not realligned, they did not say how many that grew out of it grew back into it after puberty/as an adult etc. Again statistics can be very difficult and things like that staed as fact make me feel cross as it can be so misleading!

I did wonder if I'd missed some statistics or further details (as I'd not seen the whole programme) but it seems not from what you've said.

It just seemed like a "big" statement to throw in without elaborating on it didn't it?

it must be a very distressing problem ,my best friends daughter is also 8 and wants to be a boy,she has done since she was very little and refuses to wear girls clothes ,she will point blank refuse ,she doesnt want to cut her mid length hair so my friend is very gratefull for this ,her dd is starting to get breasts and the teacher suggested she wear a vest or bra but she wont hear of it ,she is convinced she is going to have hers taken off at the doctors ,she is also dyslexic and dyspraxic too so explaining all this too her is hard she just doesnt get it .
she also believes that she will be growing a panis ,but i like my friend agree that she is too young to make a gender change decision,we both hope that like the research suggests she will grow out of it.
she also express's a liking for girls so maybe she will be gay when she grows up .