whatdidyousay!
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I dunno....
8 year old kid...really.....
"full medical transition" for kids under the age of 18 don't happen and are generally aren't allowed anyway. Some teens I think will do hormone blockers that won't cause permanent damage. For the most part kids that young transition socially (and sometimes in a legal sense IF the parents can get the birth certificate changed).
very true.And that's good..... Still it's hard to say if they're really trans at such a young age......I was reading the website of the UK charity, Mermaids and SO much of the issues and stories on there sounded like kids who basicly didn't fit into black and white gender roles...like boys who liked to dress up like princesses and play Barbies or girls who were major tomboys. Maybe the hardcore trans kids think that they can't feel a certain way, and if they DO it means they're the opposite sex.
very true.
There are a lot more to the trans* than M-->F and F-->M- there's everything in between too and that's the part so many people don't understand-- the genderqueer or the agender group. It's as you described "kids who basically didn't fit into black and white gender roles...like boys who liked to dress up like princesses and play Barbies or girls who were major tomboys." but don't necessarily DO identify as the opposite sex.
Hmm Holland aka The Netherlands? I know there's a well known surgeon there but I have never heard of kids going there to do anything tbh...
So glad I haven't been jumped on...... On some feminist sites I've been attacked b/c I've pointed out that gender really isn't black and white.
It also seems to me that adult trans (when they want to be the opposite sex of what they are) may seem to be more about a larger picture of self hatred, then it is about transsexuality, at least in SOME cases....Note I said SOME. I've just noticed that there are SOME "trans" folks who seem to have MAJOR self hatred issues.....and they think by having SRS, that their issues will be resolved..... I swear to god, I'll never forget trying to talk to a f2m trans who a) was EXTREMELY personality disordered. Basicly a troll/nasty person and b) SHE flipped out when I called HER a woman....I got the vibe that with her it wasn't about gender preference but about internalizing our society's hatred of women...so SHE interpreted woman as an insult.....you could so tell that she had a lot of self hatred issues going on......
I know that was only one example, but I've also noticed some others as well....and note I said SOME.... Many other trans is legit......I'm just saying that the gender identity is very complex...even Kate Bornstien in Gender Outlaw says this!