Mother of transgender child in i newspaper today

[Bloodybridget]

I read this article in the print version of the i today. I don't know anything about Marlo Mack or her child, and am quite willing to believe that she intends to do the absolute best for the kid. But her daughter was prescribed puberty blockers at the age of 12, so has been taking them for two years, and this is presented as completely unproblematic and in the same breath, so to speak, as the "high prevalence of self-harm" in trans children and young people - which according to many people on FWR threads is very much exaggerated, and when it does occur is very often linked to other issues such as ASD and eating disorders.

I'm absolutely not denying that some children have a strong sense of being in the "wrong body" from an early age, and may be very distressed at the prospect of getting the secondary sexual characteristics that come with puberty. However, I do wish there was more coverage in the media of the risks of hormone treatments for kids, and their irreversible effects. Are journalists/editors/publishers just too nervous about upsetting the TRAs?

Breaking the bias?

I am highly suspicious of any adult who believes that puberty should be viewed as optional, and treated like an illness

Of only so much effort and research was out into things like - leukaemia, Alzheimer’s, child welfare, elder care…

But no - those pushing this and those fighting this are wearing themselves out to the detriment of actually solving real world issues.

If only this creature knew he could just identify his baby daughter as a boy - rather than murder her?

DO NOT read this if you are going to be upset (do read if you will be angry). Father allegedly murdered baby girl because he wanted a son: I doubt he will be punished.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10597849/Fury-Pakistan-father-shoots-dead-seven-day-old-baby-girl-wanted-boy.html

So these parents are advised to have photos of their child exhibiting unconventional gender expression from a young age, in their 'safe folder'.....FFS that proves nothing! (Other than perhaps they might possibly grow top to be gay.) As for the religious chanting in the background-what on earth is going on in that house? Can't these parents step away from the medicalisation of their children and just let them grow up naturally.

So these parents are advised to have photos of their child exhibiting unconventional gender expression from a young age, in their 'safe folder'.....FFS that proves nothing! (Other than perhaps they might possibly grow top to be gay.)

Really smacks of raising them to be ridiculously paranoid and permanently looking for a fight.

Thats not a healthy premise to set really.

Again instead of teaching them.lifeskills ,.that not everyone is going to be their friend, that you will encounter bullies in your life and here's what you do/where you go they are taught to gather evidence that their families at least believe them.

If it wasn't family doing that, I'd be telling ny kids that that's what bullies do. They go along with you make you think you ate sage with them, you do everything they ask of you and they tell you that only they can be trusted and everyone else is wrong and here's why etc

I have a 2.5 year old. She has NO IDEA what a boy or a girl is. She is very ahead with her language and speaks long sentences. But is totally irrational and nonsensical. The idea that I would pay a blind bit of notice to her insisting she is a boy is ridiculous.

She has started to say things like, I'm a girl mummy! And I say, yes! Is mummy a girl or a boy? A girl, she says. If daddy a girl or a boy? A girl, she says. She is clueless about what that means.

The most important thing in her life at the moment is the desperate need to watch cocomelon, get chocolate, and have milk from the right bottle. If any of these things don't happen she is devastated. I can fully imagine a child fixating on something completely arbitrary such as being a girl, and when told no, going nuts over it. She goes nuts if I tell her she is getting tall, she shouts at me and says NO I AM LITTLE. She has similar strong feelings for colours, if I correct her with the right colour she gets very angry! I just agree with her for an easy life and she moves on to the next distraction in the goldfish bowl of her life. Perhaps I will make sure not to agree with her so easily if she randomly decides to fixate on being a boy. What a travesty for this generation of young kids.