Transgender Children - Should We Be Concerned?

[Stargazer]

A staggering increase in the number of children who claim to have been born into the "wrong" body has risen from fewer than 100 to over 2,500 was revealed in a Channel 5 programme last night. These children want to be prescribed puberty blockers to prevent their developing the body of the gender they were assigned at birth so that they can transgender at some future date and the NHS is now swamped with referrals and has a huge backlog. Are children being exposed to too much publicity implying that they have the option of changing gender? Apparently there are several Youtube videos promoting this. ,

[Old_Geezer]

We should be concerned that we aren't protecting them from adult subjects while they are still children and easily led.

[Baldric]

/// Are children being exposed to too much publicity implying that they have the option of changing gender? ///

In my opinion, yes, very much so.

[spathiphyllum]

I think puberty defines and personalised character and lifestyle so yes, i think its something to investigate further.

[Mamyalynne]

We should always be concerned about what our children are seeing and hearing and how it may affect them - we need to give them the information they need to filter all the stuff they come across and not take everything as it may first appear.

Most of all , we need to openly discuss what worries them and of course us.

[ummmm]

The internet. They Google how they're feeling and get 1,000's of pages to read through.

[webbo3]

Voting age 18
Age of consent 16
Age to change you gender, whenever you like?
you couldn't make it up.

[sanmac]

I wonder how many kids are writing and asking Santa Clause for a new body for Christmas, or even an extra one so that they can switch back and forth...Absolute nonsense.

[woofgang]

Of course its a concern but I think there's not enough information there to make an onbjective decision about what is happening. IIRC there were similar paediatric diagnosis booms for autism, anorexia, and depression....also dyslexia. Some of these cases can be ascribed to worried parents, Dr Google and so on but I think its important not to take up a dismissive stance without understanding the facts.

[Theland]

"As it was in the days of Noah!"

Not surprised.

[DarceyK123]

I really dont think children know what they want, they chop and change their minds over everything.

So i think they should have to wait till they are 18 at least before making this very adult decision

[Spungle]

I am outraged my hard-earned taxes are going towards this total nonsense. In my opinion, corrupting children as young as 4 or 5 with this vile doctrine is utterly reprehensible and any adult promoting the false theory of gender fluidity to children should be given custodial sentences or banned from working with or being around children.

[AuntLydia]

In my childhood/early adult hood I, wanted to be a boy, a nun ,a call girl and a spy. Thank god I was brought up in the '70's and not now where every whim is enabled. This is all going to come back and bite society in the arras. What on earth are the parents of these children thinking about?

[mibn2cweus]

What concerns me is professionals whose focus lies more on promoting their careers than on the ultimate moral consequences of their actions upon those they serve.

[jim360]

It's a question of balance. I agree that we should be wary of pushing children into embracing a decision that is more about what the parents want, and more about their ideologies, than about what the child wants. On the other hand, I don't see that it's any better to quash a child's attempts to express themselves at the first sign of "divergence" from the norm.

Exploring gender identity without pressure in either direction is rather healthy, and does no harm, so what's the danger in allowing a child to do so? As long as it is the child doing their own exploring, then there shouldn't be a need for concern.

[SparklyKid]

Exploring gender identity without pressure in either direction is rather healthy, and does no harm, so what's the danger in allowing a child to do so? As long as it is the child doing their own exploring, then there shouldn't be a need for concern.

13:23 Fri 23rd Nov 2018

Explore gender identity, what does that nonsense even mean ?

boy or girl, there are no other categories.

[jim360]

Well, if it makes you feel better to keep on saying that in spite of literally all the evidence, then go ahead, but you're convincing nobody.

[SparklyKid]

In all my 70 odd years I have never found a third sex, only ever encountered men or women, odd that.

[DarceyK123]

Im pretty sure what my Mother would have said if i had told her i wanted to be a boy and it wouldn't pass the censors on here!

[mushroom25]

well the government are set to sweep away the notion that gender is set by physical biology. surely what they should be doing for the young, under such a policy, is not to assign gender at birth, and feed them puberty blockers until they are old enough to decide their sexual identity for themselves.

[Deskdiary]

When they're 18 they can do what the hell they like - but when they're children we shouldn't pander to it, and schools certainly shouldn't pander to it.

There's a 13 year girl old at my daughter's school who has decided she's now called Niall (can't remember her real name), and the school have gone to great lengths to indulge her, to the extent that she's allowed to change separately for PE from the boys and the girls.

If she's decided she's a boy, why she's not changing with the boys beats me, but thinking aloud, perhaps the school aren't pandering to her as much as I thought they were!

Children should not be allowed to make these decisions.