So 10 year old girls are being injected with puberty blockers now

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www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i-would-just-suicide-myself-13478089

Who is responsible for allowing this?

Mermaids again being this familys' saviour.

oh god

that little girl is going to be led down a path that ends in sterility and mutilation

what are we becoming as a society? why is this tolerated?

"The Gender Identity Development Service (Gids), the specialist NHS gender clinic for young people, has a 1% rate of suicide."

The Mirror is lying. The suicide rate is 4 out of an estimated 10,700 which equals 0.0004%.
www.transgendertrend.com/suicide-by-trans-identified-children-in-england-and-wales/

I really have to wonder what access the child has had to internet access when they are at 9 stopping eating to stop their breasts developing and using the word suicide age 10. I just don't think children are capable of having those thoughts independent of influence from somewhere.

Totally agree ifonlyus

It's not usual 9 year old speak.

It's online grooming of children, pure and simple.

Safeguarding has taken a knock when it comes to children.

This Government has to look into this as a matter of urgency.

...aaand here comes the obligatory appearance of God in the narrative:

"if I pray hard enough will God make me a boy in the morning?"

Had that article had 3 million likes? Or am I misreading?

Jgrobinson I think you mean .04%

10? Dear God in heaven it wasn't long before that the kid was believing in Santa and the tooth fairy. The parents need to keep the child away from social media.

It's like having the worst stage parents ever.

This is appalling. I would have been the same at that age. I identified and dressed as a boy, went by a boy's name. For years. Family and friends just let me get on with it, no problem. As an adult I am female and happy to be so. It sounds like this child has been groomed, giving puberty blockers with little regard to the health risks that go along side that. I doubt that a child of that age passes gillick competancy around such a huge health and reproductive decision. This a huge safeguarding issue that has been totally ignored in the name of 'progress'. More research and counseling needs to go into this, including investigating the family dynamics and the abusive grooming of organisations claiming to be 'experts'.

My sister too. She never said she wanted to be a boy but in today's world with a set of bonkers parents I'm sure she could have been persuaded.

Sorry, yes Velella I meant 0.04%.

So very very sad - this poor child.

Why on earth would you announce this in the Mirror?

Because it's a badge for some parents. Having a boring old gay child wont get your fizzer in the national press will it?

It does take a special kind of person to allow the paper to run photos and names of their child. Wonder what they got paid for it.

Read another one of these testimonies earlier, religious parent, utterly appalling nonsense about spankings for playing with 'girls toys' and wanting princess pants. Heard the little boy praying to die. He was 3 or 4 at the time I think.

These people have taken leave of their senses.

It does make you question the motives of the parents, tbh.

Yes something has gone wrong here, for a child that age to be using words like suicide.
My ds is 9, I highly doubt he knows what suicide is and would be shocked and appalled to hear him talking about it in any context.
Obligatory mention of God and girls clothes. Can't say I blame any kid not wanting to wear what's classes as girls clothes nowadays, most of it looks completely impractical and uncomfortable.
There was a thread here few days ago about same problems with women's clothes.
Good luck to the kid, if it's lupron he's taking, he'll need it.

Can someone find a media story about 'trans' children where the story still ends up with a 'trans' scenario but where:

a) it's not accompanied with the repeated stereotypes of toddlers tugging their hairbands off or toddlers rejecting/embracing 'girly' stuff

b) the child dramatically stating 'god got it wrong'?

Because I'm starting to feel like I'm caught up in a groundhog scenario on 'trans children' media stories rolling out almost the exact same story. (I'm talking particularly about the pre-pubescent children's stories in this case, rather than teenagers).

Is there any media story where a 'trans' child grew up in a family that didn't focus on stereotypically-gendered clothing and toys, didn't believe in any god, and the child still ended up as identifying as the other sex.

I just don't believe children will get these ideas without being influenced and having the thoughts put in their head, whether by parents, the internet or other sources.

Why don't the parents just take the kid to a child therapies or psychologist to allow them to be happy in their little kid body - when they are an adult and old enough to get a tattoo or driving licence then let them choose to permanently alter their body.

What Iused2BanOptimist and FekkoThe Penguin said.

Why couldn't the child's parents say, "That's alright darling, you can be what you like when you're older. It's nothing to worry about now, you're still growing". Then change subject.

There's too much talk about this sort of thing, no wonder little kids are confused.

Parents, too, are obviously influenced by various organisations and news reports. After they've taken what are usually irrevocable decisions, they have to stick with them and justify them.

I didn't think puberty blockers were available in this country though.

With my sisters my partents were 'so do you want the army action man or the diver action man?'