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My Life CBBC Transgender

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MrsPatterson2014 · 03/03/2018 10:16

I have been reading these threads for months, never felt brave enough to post. Have been promted by my 7 and 9 year old telling me that people can be born in the wrong body and they are Transgender. They both repeated this as a matter of faith as being 7 and 9 their critical faculties are still very much in development. Hence a conversation with them about how no one can be born in the wrong body etc. Have only watched about 10 mind of the programme ( will watch the rest later) but was presented very uncritically. Am rambling a bit as in a hurry but I think my point is, should CBBC really be presenting this issue as fact to young and susceptible children?

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Bejazzled · 07/03/2018 19:55

The BBC have been pushing this agenda for a long time. I think it's disgusting actually.

Gacapa · 07/03/2018 20:03

Are the BBC showing this again? It seems to be on all the time! I swear it was about two years ago I caught my kids watching it.

RealityHasALiberalBias · 07/03/2018 20:25

The way the trans ideology impacts kids is the thing that worries me the most about it - much more than sport and safe spaces (though I agree these are hugely problematic as well).

I really believe that the trans fad is a product of the reinforcing of gender stereotypes in children and young people over the past twenty years. All this blue and pink, girls toys and boys toys stuff that is FAR more entrenched than it was when I was a child. All to sell more tat - capitalism is at the root of this.

Theswaggyotter · 07/03/2018 22:47

Looks like it was made in 2014. I wonder if Leo is still trans or how things have progressed. Was he only 13 when he started puberty blockers? Scary stuff

tallhedgehog · 09/01/2021 21:36

Hello, I am shocked by the intolerance on this thread. I am a teenager, who watched the show aged 7. Despite being a tomboy and a lesbian, i am not 'confused' and i understand the frankly basic difference between gender dysphoria and not liking pink. The show didn't confuse me in the slightest, merely expanding my horizons and making me more tolerant. In fact, the concept made perfect sense to me, a 7 year old, and i think it shows your internalised transphobia that you struggle with the concept. Oh, and being transgender is thoroughly supported by scientists. I suggest you educate yourselves instead of posting intolerant views against a show starring a 13 year old boy

ShutTheFuckUp123 · 09/01/2021 21:44

This is a zombie thread !

InTheShadowOfTheMushroomCloud · 09/01/2021 21:47

@ShutTheFuckUp123

This is a zombie thread !
Yup... and we have been told to educate ourselves....
Quaagars · 09/01/2021 21:48

@HermioneWeasley

Why are the men who run the BBC so invested in transitioning children?
Just because they're showing trans people on telly, doesn't mean they're after transitioning your kids Confused
InTheShadowOfTheMushroomCloud · 09/01/2021 21:49

Christ it's like Shaun of the dead here...

Quaagars · 09/01/2021 21:55

Aw crap, missed it was a zombie thread lol Grin

Quaagars · 09/01/2021 22:06

Realise it's a zombie now, but the poster who resurrected it has a point, which seems to be along the lines of what I was saying - how is showing someone transgender on telly going to make kids think "right, that's it, I want to be transgender now too?"
If someone who watched it when young could see that, and didn't automatically get "transed" - shows young people can have minds of their own.

midgebabe · 09/01/2021 22:23

Quaggers perhaps if you had experienced dysmorphia you would realise that showing the possibility that you can change sex someone like that , who is too young to recognise the lie, could be instantaneous relief and joy

Yet as someone who lived through that and out thenother side, I now see that promise as evil and aimed at harming people like me. Aimed at changing people like me

OldCrone · 09/01/2021 23:04

the poster who resurrected it has a point

You mean the 13 or 14-year-old child who resurrected it?

ALittleBitofVitriol · 10/01/2021 00:27

Hi tallhedgehog
How old are you now?
How do you find yourself on a 3 year old mumsnet thread?
I'm sure we're all thrilled that you apparently weren't confused by a show you watched when you were 7, but we discuss things like the possible correlation between trans-messaging in media and the 4000% rise in teen girls seeking to transition. Why do you think there has been such a rise in this population? How many of your female peers identify as something other than girls?

Wandawomble · 10/01/2021 02:22

@HermioneWeasley

Why are the men who run the BBC so invested in transitioning children?
Exactly. Why are men who run the BBC encouraging children to take puberty blockers?
Quaagars · 10/01/2021 02:37

Exactly. Why are men who run the BBC encouraging children to take puberty blockers?

How exactly are people running the BBC encouraging children to take puberty blockers?
Unless you're summising that every young person who watches must automatically think they must be trans too, or have ideas planted in their head for seeing the trans?

CuntAmongstThePigeons · 10/01/2021 10:59

Bloody hell, is it really that difficult to understand. It's not about "showing trans people on tv" way to massively miss the point. Its acknowledging that the way being trans is presented (to kids-who are not known for their critical thinking abilities) is so simplistic and black and white with pseudo science like boy and girl brains. It's the fact that gender dysphoria is presented as how one knows they are trans. It's all rooted in horribly regressive sex based stereotypes which in and off themselves are offensive and outdated. But on top of that, as many, many women have pointed out - Gender dysphoria and not aligning with sex stereotypes, DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE TRANS. As we've all said a thousand times, many of us felt the way these children feel during puberty. It's hard going through puberty as a girl in a sexist world. But luckily for us adults didn't give us life changing and body harming drugs and as a result we went through puberty and came out the other side. THAT is our point. Let children be children and stop telling them their bodies are wrong. Teach children to love themselves. Jesus wept, it should not be this difficult. Also 75 -80% of "trans kids" grow out of gender dysphoria, as we all did. So giving puberty blockers to children is making so many extra kids medical patients for life. Hiw can anyone be ok with that?!?!?!

Fuckingcrustybread · 10/01/2021 11:00

@Quaagars

Exactly. Why are men who run the BBC encouraging children to take puberty blockers?

How exactly are people running the BBC encouraging children to take puberty blockers?
Unless you're summising that every young person who watches must automatically think they must be trans too, or have ideas planted in their head for seeing the trans?

Yes
Quaagars · 10/01/2021 12:17

Yes

Wow.
OK

ThinkIveFoundYourMarbles · 10/01/2021 18:08

Oh, and being transgender is thoroughly supported by scientists.

The Keira Bell case strongly suggests this is not the case at all? 🤔

Britishkid7gk · 12/01/2021 15:35

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Britishkid7gk · 12/01/2021 15:37

Less than 1% of people detransition. Of that 1% a majority of them detransition due to not being accepted by those around them. Keira Bell is a one off case which has stupidly been allowed to impact on all transgender individuals in the UK. Her case doesn’t show that children can’t make their own decisions. She AS AN ADULT chose to have top surgery. It’s nothing to do with her age or doctors but more her feeding her doctors lies.

Britishkid7gk · 12/01/2021 15:40

If people transition to avoid sexism why do transwomen exist? Being a bit uncomfortable with your period is not gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria can cause people to have suicidal thoughts. It claims lives. People with gender dysphoria can even want to perform surgery in themselves to change their body because they were born in the wrong body. Science supports transgender individuals and I just pray that one day you will change and stop being so ignorant.

Britishkid7gk · 12/01/2021 15:42
  1. Due to an absolutely ridiculous individual who sued the NHS in a global pandemic children can’t get puberty blockers
  2. There’s nothing wrong with encouraging children to be themselves. If your child is trans LET THEM FUCKING BE TRANS. It isn’t harming you. The only people being harmed are transgender individuals by your bigoted transphobic beliefs.
yourhairiswinterfire · 12/01/2021 15:49

@Britishkid7gk

1. Due to an absolutely ridiculous individual who sued the NHS in a global pandemic children can’t get puberty blockers
  1. There’s nothing wrong with encouraging children to be themselves. If your child is trans LET THEM FUCKING BE TRANS. It isn’t harming you. The only people being harmed are transgender individuals by your bigoted transphobic beliefs.
A judicial review isn't suing anyone. It's asking a judge to review the lawfulness of decisions or actions made by public bodies.

Do your homework before you embarrass yourself further. The Tavistock have acted appallingly, and now they have to face up to that. It's not Keira's fault, it's the Tavistock's.