Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, Ms Evans. You are a hero. Maybe because of you the tide will gradually turn back here in the USA, too.
I’m a gay woman and as a child of about 7 I went through a phase of insisting I was a boy. If I were growing up today I would get carved up and have my life destroyed instead of living a full life…
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, Ms Evans. You are a hero. Maybe because of you the tide will gradually turn back here in the USA, too.
I’m a gay woman and as a child of about 7 I went through a phase of insisting I was a boy. If I were growing up today I would get carved up and have my life destroyed instead of living a full life, married with a wife. I know 3 different relatives or friends with teenage daughters who insist they are boys. It’s heartbreaking to watch these vulnerable young girls and their parents be led along the path to unnecessary mutilation by a medical profession that has gone mad.
I was a boy who liked Barbies and wanted to be a girl, desperately. That feeling passed when I hit puberty and discovered that I liked my body, and being a boy. Puberty changes everything. We need to let kids experience it. It’s natural and good and right. All this mad scientist stuff has to stop! FFS.
The thought that someone might have convinced my parents to give me puberty blockers until I was old enough to have my penis removed is chilling. All of this is so obviously wrong.
I went through a similar phase around that same time. Was always a tomboy but around 9 started insisting I was a boy and the doctors must have made a mistake in declaring my sex as a baby. I wore boys clothes, cut my hair short, and started dreaming of name changes for two years. The phase passed as quickly as it started and I am now a married, lipstick and dress wearing, heterosexual feminine mother of three. I think I just related and enjoyed more “boy” things and had no context for a female fitting into those preferences. Thank god my parents paid no attention and it occurred 25 years ago. Kids need space to explore different likes and aspects of themselves without adult insistence that something that may be just a phase is actually indicative of something wrong requiring invasive medical interference . Lots of kids try on different looks or obsessions only to drop them when they realize it doesn’t fit.
Same here. I wore my older brother's hand-me-down clothes and people who didn't know our family well actually thought my brother had a younger brother, not a sister. My name is Katherine but I got nick-named Kenny when I was a baby because that's how my brother pronounced my name. I wanted to be a horse and it could be said I identified strongly with being a horse.
But by 13 or so I started outgrowing it. I'm married with kids, go by Kate, still horse crazy but otherwise completely normal.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, Ms Evans. You are a hero. Maybe because of you the tide will gradually turn back here in the USA, too.
I’m a gay woman and as a child of about 7 I went through a phase of insisting I was a boy. If I were growing up today I would get carved up and have my life destroyed instead of living a full life, married with a wife. I know 3 different relatives or friends with teenage daughters who insist they are boys. It’s heartbreaking to watch these vulnerable young girls and their parents be led along the path to unnecessary mutilation by a medical profession that has gone mad.
I was a boy who liked Barbies and wanted to be a girl, desperately. That feeling passed when I hit puberty and discovered that I liked my body, and being a boy. Puberty changes everything. We need to let kids experience it. It’s natural and good and right. All this mad scientist stuff has to stop! FFS.
The thought that someone might have convinced my parents to give me puberty blockers until I was old enough to have my penis removed is chilling. All of this is so obviously wrong.
I went through a similar phase around that same time. Was always a tomboy but around 9 started insisting I was a boy and the doctors must have made a mistake in declaring my sex as a baby. I wore boys clothes, cut my hair short, and started dreaming of name changes for two years. The phase passed as quickly as it started and I am now a married, lipstick and dress wearing, heterosexual feminine mother of three. I think I just related and enjoyed more “boy” things and had no context for a female fitting into those preferences. Thank god my parents paid no attention and it occurred 25 years ago. Kids need space to explore different likes and aspects of themselves without adult insistence that something that may be just a phase is actually indicative of something wrong requiring invasive medical interference . Lots of kids try on different looks or obsessions only to drop them when they realize it doesn’t fit.
Thanks for sharing…I know there are countless stories like ours. I wonder how to get these stories out?
Same here. I wore my older brother's hand-me-down clothes and people who didn't know our family well actually thought my brother had a younger brother, not a sister. My name is Katherine but I got nick-named Kenny when I was a baby because that's how my brother pronounced my name. I wanted to be a horse and it could be said I identified strongly with being a horse.
But by 13 or so I started outgrowing it. I'm married with kids, go by Kate, still horse crazy but otherwise completely normal.
Thanks for sharing that. Your story, and other's similar stories, have to be shared widely with the young girls caught up in this social contagion.