dbgtz
21-11-2016, 04:40 PM
Kind of stealing this from HFFM but they seem to have no diversity of opinion there and I'm shocked they all seem OK with this...
A mum says her 9-year-old son told her he was transgender - while watching a male X-Factor contestant wearing a dress.
Rachel Armstrong, 38, says her son Sam asked her thoughts on Seann Miley Moore wearing a dress on the ITV talent show, before revealing she was transgender.
Her child, now 10 and called Zoe, had already researched how she was feeling online and discovered there was a name for it.
But the news didn't come as a surprise to Rachel, who says Zoe had always stuck out from her three brothers by wearing pink tutus and a tea towel on her head to resemble hair.
Only weeks later teachers announced that Sam would be returning on the following Monday as Zoe and has been wearing dresses ever since.
Now the family, from Durham, are monitoring Zoe's development and plan to use medication to pause her puberty and will consider giving her female hormones - which will leave her infertile.
Rachel said: "To be honest, it's not been a major shock. She's always been girly. The trickiest thing was changing to the right pronouns and not calling her by her old name.
"I've got a family of boys. She's never been like her brothers. It was from a very early age.
"She was never like them, wasn't into the same things and she had no interest in playing the games they played or the toys they played with.
"Her brothers have been fabulous with it. They just took it in their stride. Everything just fell into place.
"The earliest sign was when she was just a baby. She used to wear a tea towel on her head as hair. She would also wear my heels.
"She would always choose to wear a pink tutu at nursery and would always pick stereotypical girl things over boy things.
"Another sign was when we took the boys to the fair and they all chose a crossbow and arrow but she wanted a princess set.
"We knew the writing on the wall and it was no shock. I would have questioned it a bit more if it was one of my other sons that came out because they showed no signs.
"When I first found out I did lots of research and I found so many articles on people who had killed themselves and I thought to myself, she's not going to be a statistic like that.
"It was all about her wanting to be happy and I would rather have a happy girl than an unhappy boy.
"At the end of the day, I'm just loving her and letting her live her life as a happy 10-year-old little girl. It's just a different name.
The mum-of-four bought Zoe a new outfit to express her new identity two weeks later, which she put on straight away and didn't want to take off.
She officially took on her new name in November 2015, which she chose herself after the beauty blogger Zoella.
After wearing girly clothes for a week Zoe became insecure about her short hair, which still showed her as a young boy.
However, to make her feel better, Rachel cut her hair very short as a surprise so that they could grow their hair long together.
After Zoe had taken on her new image and name, Rachel knew it was time to tell their friends, family and the school but thankfully faced no negativity.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/transgender-9-year-old-told-9281620
There's a load more but it seems to become rather irrelevant.
C+ping my reply from HFFM:
"Did anyone actually read the article?
I will be honest and say I disagree with this whole "trans" movement, but if an adult wants to take these life altering drugs and cut off bits and bobs then so be it. However, suggesting "pausing" puberty because a 9 year old boy now wants to be a girl is insane. Not only do these drugs seriously mess with the body with no physical benefit, but what 9 year old can seriously make such a life changing decision at this age?
If you support this "pausing" of puberty then you should all be ashamed frankly."
I really hope it's just tabloid trash that has been badly spun, but I surely can't be the only one thinking this? I can't also help think now that the child thinks they're a girl because they like traditionally girl things but have read up on how this somehow makes them a girl? It's an assumption but I can't help but think they've looked up some bad information and is just another reason they should not consider drugs.
A mum says her 9-year-old son told her he was transgender - while watching a male X-Factor contestant wearing a dress.
Rachel Armstrong, 38, says her son Sam asked her thoughts on Seann Miley Moore wearing a dress on the ITV talent show, before revealing she was transgender.
Her child, now 10 and called Zoe, had already researched how she was feeling online and discovered there was a name for it.
But the news didn't come as a surprise to Rachel, who says Zoe had always stuck out from her three brothers by wearing pink tutus and a tea towel on her head to resemble hair.
Only weeks later teachers announced that Sam would be returning on the following Monday as Zoe and has been wearing dresses ever since.
Now the family, from Durham, are monitoring Zoe's development and plan to use medication to pause her puberty and will consider giving her female hormones - which will leave her infertile.
Rachel said: "To be honest, it's not been a major shock. She's always been girly. The trickiest thing was changing to the right pronouns and not calling her by her old name.
"I've got a family of boys. She's never been like her brothers. It was from a very early age.
"She was never like them, wasn't into the same things and she had no interest in playing the games they played or the toys they played with.
"Her brothers have been fabulous with it. They just took it in their stride. Everything just fell into place.
"The earliest sign was when she was just a baby. She used to wear a tea towel on her head as hair. She would also wear my heels.
"She would always choose to wear a pink tutu at nursery and would always pick stereotypical girl things over boy things.
"Another sign was when we took the boys to the fair and they all chose a crossbow and arrow but she wanted a princess set.
"We knew the writing on the wall and it was no shock. I would have questioned it a bit more if it was one of my other sons that came out because they showed no signs.
"When I first found out I did lots of research and I found so many articles on people who had killed themselves and I thought to myself, she's not going to be a statistic like that.
"It was all about her wanting to be happy and I would rather have a happy girl than an unhappy boy.
"At the end of the day, I'm just loving her and letting her live her life as a happy 10-year-old little girl. It's just a different name.
The mum-of-four bought Zoe a new outfit to express her new identity two weeks later, which she put on straight away and didn't want to take off.
She officially took on her new name in November 2015, which she chose herself after the beauty blogger Zoella.
After wearing girly clothes for a week Zoe became insecure about her short hair, which still showed her as a young boy.
However, to make her feel better, Rachel cut her hair very short as a surprise so that they could grow their hair long together.
After Zoe had taken on her new image and name, Rachel knew it was time to tell their friends, family and the school but thankfully faced no negativity.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/transgender-9-year-old-told-9281620
There's a load more but it seems to become rather irrelevant.
C+ping my reply from HFFM:
"Did anyone actually read the article?
I will be honest and say I disagree with this whole "trans" movement, but if an adult wants to take these life altering drugs and cut off bits and bobs then so be it. However, suggesting "pausing" puberty because a 9 year old boy now wants to be a girl is insane. Not only do these drugs seriously mess with the body with no physical benefit, but what 9 year old can seriously make such a life changing decision at this age?
If you support this "pausing" of puberty then you should all be ashamed frankly."
I really hope it's just tabloid trash that has been badly spun, but I surely can't be the only one thinking this? I can't also help think now that the child thinks they're a girl because they like traditionally girl things but have read up on how this somehow makes them a girl? It's an assumption but I can't help but think they've looked up some bad information and is just another reason they should not consider drugs.