This is not normal, this is not good for kids, this needs to be stopped now.
The American invention of the 'trans kid' is an abusive fiction
Some people didn’t like my post about Helen Lewis today so I’m deleting it and trusting to the complaints system at The Atlantic. I’ve told them that Helen knew she was providing two dodgy links to back up her character assassination of me in this passage. “Graham Linehan, who has mockingly posted photographs of transgender people and often disregards the pronouns that they use.” Anyone versed in this debate knows exactly what the cotton ceiling and exactly the kind of person Stephanie Hayden is. In my humble opinion, her attempt to teach me better online manners is not entirely ethically sound.
Anyway! That’s just a by the by. I wanted to talk a little bit about today’s ‘This Morning’ clip.
At the age of two, Stormy told his family, 'I'm not a girl, I think I'm a boy'.
At the age of two.
That’s TWO!
One day, a documentary will feature this clip and people will ask “How could they have let it happen at all, let alone volorise it in this way?”
They will ask “Why were serious journalists not covering it?”.
They will ask, where is that kid now? Is she ok?
Those of us who are fighting for a positive answer to that question, and feel it’s important enough that everything else must be put to one side until its addressed properly, can hold our heads up. We tried to ring the alarm and we’ll keep trying.
Can Holly not see the contradiction in her comment about how we want to put people in boxes of boy or girl as if these parents aren't doing exactly that. A gender non confirming child is not the opposite sex and it's enclosing them in a box to say they are. If you'd asked me at 4 what I was, I'd have said a lion (slight narnia obsession). Thank goodness that wasn't affirmed by my parents (!)
At two my kids were trying to put their fingers into electric plug sockets. I did not take it as a sign that they wanted to be electrical appliances.