I don’t know anything about this editorialist, but it’s refreshing to see a writer who doesn’t tippy-toe around the issue for once. And she says something you pretty much never hear from journalists: the very fact that a kid is being “monitored” by gender specialists could influence them to claim to be transgender. Or maybe they think this is what Mummy or Daddy wants! And let’s not forget: Even WPATH acknowledges that 80%+ of little children grow out of gender dysphoria:
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Your average three-year-old can’t decide whether he wants fish fingers or baked beans for tea. So how on earth would he know he was born in the wrong body? And how would such a young child be able to express that kind of emotion?
It all sounds like PC nonsense to me. However, not according to experts at the Tavistock and Portman Trust - two NHS hospitals which specialise in gender issues - which says the numbers of Under 11’s referred to them has quadrupled in the last four years. And nearly a third of those were aged between three and four.
But are those children really concerned about gender issues or is their thinking being influenced by other people i.e parents who themselves might be transgender? Parents who might have wanted a girl instead of a boy or vice versa and are unconsciously projecting that onto their child? Or might they just be idiots who have looked at something their child has done and come to a completely uninformed conclusion about it.
I’m no expert but I cannot believe that any three-year-old is walking around beating his chest shouting: “I was born into the wrong body.” He might be shouting that he wants some chocolate or to play with the kids across the street or to get hold of Mum’s iPad. But I refuse to believe that any three-year-old is tormented by their sexuality.
So is this so-called problem (apparently 77 children have been referred to the Gender Identity Development Service in the last four years) just another example of our PC society seeing problems (or inventing them) when there are none? So what if a boy wants to put a girls dress on? Or a girl wants to play with trucks and fire engines. It doesn’t mean either of them was born into the wrong body.
My fear in all this is that if a child is put into a State funded “transgender” monitoring system at three - they might never get out of it. They might never be able to - or be allowed to - think independently, and be steered into believing they’re something they are not.
When I was four I was convinced I wanted to be a vet or a bus conductor. By nine I wanted to be a racing driver (a boy’s career) having had a few spins in my uncle’s souped-up, lime green Capri.
My point is that kids change - how they think, how they feel, how they react to things. And if they’re being monitored and treated for transgender in an environment where they are constantly told that is the norm - then they might continue to live that life so as not to let people down or disappoint them.
