Are some professions more likely to have trans-identified children?

[Niminy]

Do some occupational groups have a higher percentage of parents of trans-identified children? Following on from Sunderland Minster thread I was thinking that I could immediately think of five clergy with trans-identified children. I'm sure there are more but I got kicked out of a big fb group for being a Terf. Actors, journalist -- this is well known. Are there others? Academics, perhaps? And what makes some groups more susceptible?

I largely agree with your comments silence and think that people identify as trans for many reasons. It must all feel real to the individual but there may be reasons like trauma that are behind the identification. Plus, I feel there are people that just are trans. My child has said she feels like a boy since the age of 4, and that’s different again. Trans is a protected identity. There are many reasons perhaps for feeling that identity but it’s not just a made up thing nor is it a mental illness in my view.

I said I wanted to be a boy from the age of 4. Insisted on a short haircut and to be called a boy version of my name. My parents went along with the hair and clothes but in the 70s and 80s nobody told me I could actually be or become a boy. Because that would have been cruel as its obviouslybnot possible to chnage sex. Instead, I grew up to be a gender non conforming tomboy, goth and then person working in a very male-dominated tech field. I am still very much a proud, strong woman though and would have been devastated if my fertility had been affected by my tomboy outlook on life as I have very much enjoyed being a parent.

I have to disagree with you that there are people that just are inately trans though. Its a personality identity so thats like saying some people just are goths or just are tomboys or just do like the colour pink. Being trans isn't a protected identity. Being male or female is, being gay is, and having undergone official gender reassignment is, even though that is also just a personality identity imo and shouldn't really be in the same category as sex or sexuality. Nobody is born in the wrong body and I think thats a terrible message to give a child.

I appreciate your respectful reply silence, even though our views differ somewhat. My child was pretty much as you describe yourself. I never told her she could be a boy because this was 20 years ago, the landscape was very different and it never entered my head she could be, either. I don’t want to say too much about her history but we are where we are because rather than being suicidal, she now lives happily with a boy name and pronouns and due to her androgynous looks, genuinely passes to people in the street as a man.

to be fair I hadn’t realised the language of the Equality Act is around gender reassignment, thank you for highlighting that. To me, that means some people genuinely want gender reassignment and genuinely feel better having done that.

This feels like a good point to leave the thread, so I won’t be commenting again.

Well I'm glad shes doing well, whatever the background. I think thats what any parent would want for any child or young person. I worry very much about the ones that are damaged for ideological reasons though eg this account: https://www.independentwomen.com/2026/05/26/at-14-i-endured-gender-affirming-care-ill-suffer-with-that-for-the-rest-of-my-life/, but as I say, I'm glad it has worked out better for your daughter. And I agree, if adults choose to undergo whatever physical and legal processes are currently available to help them present as the opposite sex if they genuinely want to, then that clearly should be up to them and they should be protected from discrimination as a result, the same as women and gay people.

But that is a very different thing from the concept of 'the trans child' which is a dangerous fallacy. Children can't knowingly consent to cross sex hormones and surgery. I think your daughter also has little in common with the middle aged male IT worker and porn / transgressing female spaces and experience scenario that I am familiar with, despite both now coming under the trans umbrella

I can only be happy to hear that it has helped your adult daughter to present as male though and I think it is important to acknowledge that there are adults that it helps on balance.

This feels like a good point to leave the thread, so I won’t be commenting again.

The old I've said my bit now I don't care to hear what anyone else has to say move. One wonders why some people bother to comment on a discussion board in the first place.