Poor kid

[Pratchet]

someone should answer for this

Drip, drip, drip... stories like these normalise it... brave etc etc

Have the parent(s) even looked into the issues around the blockers?

This is so worrying I cannot believe the child cant just Have short hair and "boys pants" as a girl. .

'He only decided he was a boy two years ago. He was happy wearing dresses before. '

Hmmmmm.

I have trouble with the narrative that a child used the words 'I was born in the wrong body'. Children just dont think like that and they don't talk like that.

Mum of six
The Dad doesn’t seem to be mentioned? What does he think I wonder?

Sterilising children who have a healthy body is child abuse. There will be law suits down the road.

Insane that a grown woman can't be trusted to know that she has completed her family and wants her tubes tied, but a 12-year-old is apparently capable of deciding to set out on a path towards becoming a lifelong medical patient.

Why is no one asking or trying to find out what made it so terrible being a girl 2 years ago.. .that trying to identify out of it was the answer

‘Wouldn’t let me put makeup on her’ Brothers ‘protecting’ her remaining daughter. Burning a bra. At 12 (or even earlier) What gender restrictive nonsense has this child been fed? Lots by the sounds of it.

Why is no one asking or trying to find out what made it so terrible being a girl 2 years ago.. .that trying to identify out of it was the answer

This, with knobs on

I started to type a reply picking through the more ridiculous points in that article, and then deleted it.... honestly, I think this child being featured in a national newspaper is abusive in itself. It’s just not ok - they weren’t comfortable to go school ‘as a boy’ to the point where they school refused, yet somehow telling the whole nation they “are LGBT”(?) is acceptable?

Just no. Honestly I don’t think any good can come from commenting on this article, it’s DM clickbait. It speaks for itself anyway - anyone with an ounce of logic can see what is happening to this child.

It’s heartbreaking and maddening, but I think we should take care when commenting on specific cases.

Oh they’d live in Leeds

Mail readers ie the general public seem horrified by this.

This is the sort of thing that needs to go in AIBU.

It’s in Hessle in East Yorkshire not Leeds. Hessle Academy was mentioned in the Grauniad for trans issues.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/education/2018/may/15/transgender-row-teachers-afraid-challenge-breast-binding

I agree that this CHILD should not be being featured in a national newspaper and the munchausen by proxy angle is definitely worthy of some proper research.

Do blockers actually make a kid sterile? Permanently? I'm all for kids presenting as they want and even using the name they want is hardly a big deal, doing things to their body when there is no medical need is a step too far for me.

Leeds again. There's a surprise

They live in Yorkshire. Right. Blimey. It's all a bit coincidental.

He had long hair which he would never let his mum do anything with and he would never let her put make-up on his face

WTAF!?! While I’ve nothing against small children playing dress up with make up, why is an adult trying to put make up on a small child???

The off-label powerful cancer drugs which are used to block puberty, followed by cross-sex hormones, will sterilise a child. The drugs alone can mean a child never grows into full fertility, and also impact brain development. They aren't reversible, and more to the point, most kids who take blockers do go on to hormones. (Ask a transactivist about desistance. They will tell you it doesn't exist.)

Not on topic but is anyone else gobsmacked that she had her fifth kid at 23, or did I read that wrong?

I can't even read it, because I'm getting too emotional from the photos. I really hope this is the right decision for this young person, and that they have a happy life. But this makes me so very sad.