Sunday Mirror

AGAINST

- BY RIA COOPER UK’S YOUNGEST TRANSGENDE­R PATIENT AT 15

SOME people assume I would agree with gender fluidity but I think what the parents are doing amounts to abuse. It is very confusing for a child to be told they are neither a boy nor a girl. If your baby is born a boy but you’re telling him he’s gender fluid you risk making him think there is something wrong with being a boy or with being a girl.

You know if you are born female or male. Every child should know that. I certainly knew.

If you come to the realisatio­n on your own that you’re transgende­r and you want to transition then parents should be supportive.

But to bring a child up as gender fluid just because of your own gender issues is selfish.

It’s one thing to be liberal and to let your child be themselves if they say they feel in the wrong body, but you’re confusing your child by suggesting that it’s normal for gender to be a choice.

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