Transgender kids are cool, if you believe their crazy parents and the BBC

Sep 21, 2016 by Jill

by Ken MacIntosh, TCW:

Last week, BBC Radio Four’s evening news programme PM aired an interview with a ten-year old child who self-identifies as having a ‘non-binary’ gender. That is, s/he believes that s/he is neither a boy nor a girl, but both.

The child, who was born a girl, has decided to call her/himself ‘Leo’. S/he was interviewed alongside her/his mother [we’ll proceed with just male pronouns from now on, before I go insane]. Leo’s mother explained his personality thus: “Leo is definitely not a girl. Leo is more boy than girl … but he’s not, like a lot of transgender people, a male mind who happened to be born in a female body. He’s a non-binary mind who happened to be born in a female body”. A profession of a truly remarkable knowledge of her child’s psyche. But is this just some off-the-peg gender-identity which, having been found on the internet, is now being hung upon Leo’s shoulders, one which he must grow into? Or is this, genuinely, Leo’s own personality organically forming?

The BBC interview probed none of this, doing no more than bathe the interviewees in warm adoration. Mum got a free pass. The interview did, however, provide glimpses into the events which had initiated Leo’s journey through the genders. He tells us that upon first broaching the subject with his mother, “[she] was completely on board first thing”. Really? First thing? It took me months of inner struggle before I would let my daughter play outside by herself, but here Leo wants to change gender and it’s all systems go. Mum did ask him, however, whether he would be “a gay man or a straight man”. The interviewer then informs us that, “helped by research from his parents [Leo] decided that he’s non-binary”. What is apparent from this last sentence is that Leo’s specific gender-identity is not some gradually arrived at realisation, but a ‘decision’, or choice, made after viewing a various options presented to him by his parents. His parents are, through their interventions, impelling their child through this process.

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Read also: Pushing Kids Into Transgenderism Is Medical Malpractice by Walt Heyer, The Federalist