This is going to probably be a nonsensical and rambling post but I have nowhere else to share my grief and raging anger. I want to scream and shout.
But I can’t share with close friends and definitely can’t share online , if the media even sniffed a clue as what it’s about, it would make national news.
So please bare with me. Obviously I’ve changed my username but you can check with mumnset, and they could confirm I’ve been a regular poster on here for 20 years.
So here goes, I’m not using pronouns as don’t want to give any clue as to their sex. Anyway my best friend from primary school has had the most shocking news about her young teenage child “Tiger”.
My friend is a “normal” middle class mum and Tiger was a happy-go-lucky and slightly quirky kid.
My friend only told me recently that Tiger was trans, if I’d have known sooner I could have supported my friend by signposting to here or to other helpful websites, charities, books and YouTube videos.
But I didn’t know, I live hundreds of miles away. We talk daily on the phone. Why didn’t she tell me?
Tiger was online for years and made many dubious decisions, some that my friend knew about, and it has ended tragically. This is a “normal” family.
The Cass Review, Tavistock being closed down … too little too late. My friend’s tragedy will hopefully never be publicised but how many more tragedies are there out there, that we don’t know about?
My friend and Tiger had turned to Mermaids and Tavistock. She did everything she thought was right for her child, listened to the “professionals”.
I hate them. I hate them all. I can’t tell you how much I hate these “professionals”.
How many more children have been destroyed mentally and physically, and even died because of these evil people?
How is my friend going to feel in a decade when it’s fully known about these practices and charities, and medical malpractices are huge news?
Like I said I can’t share any of this with my friends. So I’m here on FWR ranting on a post that probably doesn’t even make sense.
If anyone does reply to my post I probably won’t be back for a while as I’m staying with my friend for a couple of weeks. I just needed to get it off my chest. I’ll hopefully be able to sneak here now and again to be comforted by like minded women.
This is as bad as it gets. It feels like a nightmare. And am glad of every FOI request I’ve made, every Let Women speak I’ve attended, every garden I’ve watered and even my monthly Sex Matters DD.
I just can't believe this, I post on here almost every day and this is what we most fear. My friend is a normal person living a normal life, not a potential front page news story.
I don’t want another mother to have to go though what my friend is going though. If you got this far through my rambling - thanks for reading.