I have a daughter who identifies as trans and has socially transitioned at school. To their credit the school asked us if we agreed and I did, because she was being badly bullied at the time and both she and the school said it would ameliorate the bullying if she could be known by a boy's name. That was the wrong decision and I didn't realise at the time the full import of social transitioning. I think changing your gender/sex is a nonsense but I am scared of challenging my daughter in case she digs her heels in and decides to prove she is really a transman by going down the route of medical transition. I am stuck and very worried about the pernicious influence of gender ideologues. I think many parents are stuck and silenced in the same position. FWIW my daughter is autistic and lesbian, but insists she is a gay boy because all the girls she has relationships have agreed to be trans boys.
@LHolt99 You don’t say how old your daughter is. At 13 mine was an ‘honorary boy’, not an actual boy, just pretended to be one. We didn’t use the language of trans then. I regarded it as an ‘awkward phase’, said she was fine however she wanted to be. She’s now a Mum of her own girl.
My heart goes out to you. So many parents are having to deal with this - and the schools are largely NOT helping by encouraging this ideology. All you can do is hold out against any drugs or surgery and hope she grows out of it and goes on to enjoy her life as a healthy and happy gay woman. Wishing you the best x
@LHolt99 💔 so sorry to hear this. Hope she comes out the other side, healthy and happy, soon xx
@LHolt99 @EveleenWinters Move. Seriously, the first thing you should have done is move schools.
@LHolt99 "all the girls she has relationships have agreed to be trans boys." This right here proves this is a social contagion more than almost anything else. ALL the girls? When I was growing up, you probably wouldn't have ONE trans student in an entire school.
Sounds similar to one of my daughters, but this was 4-5 years ago. I basically told her my generation was running a huge experiment on her generation and we do not know how it will turn out. I told her the drugs were not reversible, sexual function could be ruined, and long term effects were unknown. I also said that kids would start detransitioning and start suing their doctors and parents. I used her distrust of authority to my favor by pointing to all the authorities pushing something obviously fairly new. She knows she’s a young woman, is more comfortable with her femininity and is gay. Much, much better adjusted than I could have hoped for five years ago.