Emma Bunton

[AccidentallyWesAnderson]

Emma Bunton has posted a picture tribute for her son Tate's 13th birthday with a hashtag #shesmybaby. The 3 young people pictured all have long hair so my initial thought was 'her son must be trans'.

KJK has posted a video saying if she calls her son she/her then she's a child abuser. Not sure what to make of it. I get where KJK is coming from but child abuser?

I couldn't see any other threads on this.

The thread is from the start of May.

Language matters! 😂

We know that, that's the whole point.

It doesn't say anything about her child's gender.

Wrong insta post. It’s this one.

Abuse? Not sure. Poor parenting? Absolutely.

This is not celebrating your child's true self. This is denying your child's true self. This is teaching your child to disengage from reality instead of working with what they have and learning to love the person they are. This is teaching your child to depend upon others for their sense of self-worth, instead of teaching them resilience and self-respect.

This is lying to your child.

This is not like Father Christmas or the Tooth Fairy. You expect your child to work out the truth about make-believe. And if your child doesn't work it out before puberty, a good parent makes sure to tell them the truth before they are teased by their peers for believing in the patently and obviously untrue.

So why would a loving parent encourage their child to believe untrue things that could lead to more than teasing? To a distorted self-image, to sterilisation, to irreversible medical harm?

I wish people wouldn't parade their own children all over social media.

Therefore abuse.