Britain's youngest trans child

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Article in daily fail (sorry)

4 year old female twin says she is a boy (like her twin brother) and expresses interest in firefighters & police officers & doesn't like pigtails.

So the parents are transitioning their 4 year old and saying they have grown up conversations about gender with them.

Sigh.

You can catch the parents on today's This Morning on the ITV player

@HDDD

You can catch the parents on today's This Morning on the ITV player

I watched that.

WTAF is wrong with them? And the pandering/playing along by PS and HW.

I'm glad the health visitor had the sense to tell them not to ignore the child's biology (I'm pretty sure I heard the parent mention something like that but the phone started ringing).

Its on the tv shows twitter. It doenst look like its going well for them. Did they really say that their two year old was explaining their sexuality to them? Red flags or what?

Did the mother actually get a word in during that interview?
I thought the body language and facial expressions were very telling.

This trend is feeding a whole industry, or industries. There are even tiny realistic silicone penis-and-scrotum sets in age sizes for parents to buy and pop in their child's knickers or swimsuit so they don't feel different from the other boys.

Can you imagine spotting and exploiting that niche market?!

This is a tragedy happening in front of us - this little girl is having her carefree childhood taken from her for utterly nonsensical reasons. She is being denied her chance to be raised as a girl and all the wonderful things that would bring her. It’s evil.

What else are they going to tell this child growing up? The twin will be confused too, telling other kids ‘that’s my brother’ .

@Toseland

This is a tragedy happening in front of us - this little girl is having her carefree childhood taken from her for utterly nonsensical reasons. She is being denied her chance to be raised as a girl and all the wonderful things that would bring her. It’s evil.

Yes but isn't it wonderful how much attention her parents are getting? Must feel really good to have so many people lauding their behaviour. Just lying there at night when the house is quiet, absolutely bathing in that feeling of being so very, very special and righteous.

Thanks for the link @R0wantrees !!

I have a friend I'd love to share this with, sadly, we are both walking on eggshells, unsure how to talk about her son who is clearly going through this. All I know is she is not the enthusiastic parent like the father shared by the OP and I hope I can gently share this with her.

@stonecat it’s available on YouTube

Calling this little tacker Britain's youngest trans child risks starting a rush to claim the title, doesn't it? How long before the proud parents of an amazing, brave baby still in nappies and not yet walking are on national TV? I give it a month, tops

Thanks SuperShe I got to the point where thr mum was talking about going to the barbers and had to switch of for fear my eyeballs would roll out of my head.

Oh for goodness sake - constant talk about validation. And repeatedly asking a child if they are a boy, girl or non binary at age 2 1/2 is ridiculous. Plus the guff about telling the barbers the child is transgender so the barber can support the child's emotions is ridiculous.

[quote SuperShe]@stonecat it’s available on YouTube

[/quote] Thank you for the link. The bit that stood out to me was the mother saying how they looked into it and contacted Mermaids!!!

Poor child

"I haven't worked with young children before"

No shit Sherlock.
The haircut I wanted him to have.

That is piss poor journalism.
Shame on ITV.

Ah, and here comes the grift.

"I haven't worked with young children before"

I think she was a teacher supporting older SEN children?

Of course she is.
It's painful watching my profession being dragged through the mud like this.
At least the health visitor had her head screwed on.

The HV was probably reported for high crimes and misdemeanours.

GoingThru no disrespect to your profession. People running to the press might want to think about how much personal information they divulge.

Good grief.

What the hell has gone wrong? When did we all need so much validation?

What I picked up on was that thoughtout that clip, they didn’t say once what the child had said or done that made them think the child was transgender.
The mother said something like: “We treated him as any normal child, and it wasn’t till later it became apparent that we did need to address it and validate it.” Address what precisely? Validate what? Why is she unable to say what behaviours or words their child was displaying/saying which needed addressing and validating? Or is it simply that there was none?

She then also proceeds to say they told their child that “girls can be firewomen or footballers, but then after we started saying we need to do something about that.”
Again, do something about WHAT?? What was the child saying or doing that made you leap from saying girls can take up roles historically held predominantly by men to saying we need to contact Mermaid?

The mother also says she would ask the child “every other day, are you a boy or a girl, are you non binary?” Who the heck asks that sort of a question to a one year old? That poor child.

Apparently their child is an “intelligent boy who knows what these things means.” Oh really? Kids are born with knowledge on gender identity and non binary? Or has she brain washed that poor child with her constant harassment and psychologically “abused” him, by distorting the child’s reality, until they hear the answers they want? All simply because the child was possibly imitating the the brother?

What chance did that poor child have with parents like those two?

It’s absolutely ridiculous , poor child. I saw that interview and my mum said remember when ds wanted to be a fire engine, not a fire man at that age, then he wanted to be a horse. Should we have painted him red or had horse shoes made?