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I just pulled out my notes from a GIDS event I attended in 2016. In one highly controlled moderated session, there was a Q&A with a panel of trans youth. Asked about what they could do better one of them said: "until I left GIDS I'd never met a trans adult". I was shocked. 1/
This young woman had been through years of sessions at GIDS, without meeting a single trans adult. No opportunities to ask questions, no support or community. Complete segregation. This is the experience of many trans youth & could so easily have been that of our family. 2/
Until we attended a @Mermaids_Gender residential, our child thought they were the only person in the world to feel the way they did. They felt utterly alone. We were determined they would grow up with positive representation, with role models of trans adults living full lives. 3/
