Your child isn't trans, she's just a tomboy

[Birdsweepsin]

Mary Wakefield in the Spectator

www.spectator.co.uk/article/dont-medicalise-tomboys/#Echobox=1674450150

At no other point in history would the existence of a boyish girl have raised the idea that she might actually be a boy in some metaphysical sense. But because we’ve been marinating, for a decade, in the glutinous language of critical gender theory, it’s become normal to think a boyish girl or a girlish boy needs treatment.

I was talking to someone I know the other day who’s dd is a teacher in a very…erm..progressive part of my city (think lots of hippy/free thinking types) and she said about half of her dd’s class identify as the opposite sex (these are 8-9 yr old). The children don’t have uniform and are allowed to dress as they like with boys running around in tutus etc.

I find it interesting as in my own much more traditional, right-wing voting area there are no children I know of in my DC’s school who identify as the opposite sex.

I wonder how much of these children’s ideas surrounding their identity comes from parental influence?

Yes it seems like a 'fashion' to me and will get less when some other thing appears. DS went to one of those 'hippyish' type of schools in the 90s , there was one little boy in the infants who wore a tshirt on his head to simulate long hair, his mum said he was allowed to dress up in girls clothes when he got to school, they were all dressed up, it wasn't a big thing.

I had severe anxiety and OCD as a child, and would worry constantly that there was something ‘wrong’ with me.

I also had short hair, wore trousers, liked metalwork and woodwork, and climbing trees and riding my bike. I hated playing with Sindy dolls. I spent a lot of time alone, mooching or reading.

I would have totally been suckered into believing I was ‘trans’ if it had been a thing back then. I’d not have gone down the medical route, as I didn’t have the sort of parents I could have talked to about it, but I dread to think what it would have done to my mental health to have been told I was ‘in the wrong body.’ It’s beyond cruel.

I was a tomboy and it terrifies me what would be happening to me if I was born 30 years later.

I was never a 'girly' girl, I hated dolls and dresses etc and instead I played with cars and Action Man and when out playing always had a football.

This was in the 70's/80's and was just seen as normal behavior. I never once in my 50 odd years think I was born in the wrong body.

In today's world it's 'i think my ? year old is trans.....what a load of bolloks.....LET KIDS BE KIDS, STOP LABELLING THEM....

i used to be a tomboy. Dressed like a boy, wanted to BE a boy because it was crap being a girl. My (normal seventies) parents totally humoured me. They didn’t care, no need to label me. Then I grew up, went through puberty, discovered boys, grew my hair etc. and enjoyed being a normal teenage girl. Married with kids these days and thanking my lucky stars my tomboy days didn’t coincide with this damaging ideology.