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One of my cis kids wanted to be a dog for about a year. She wore a dog costume all the time at home and she would go about on all fours. I let her be a dog as much as she wanted.
The difference between a kid playacting to be an animal/superhero/insert transphobes' choice of inanimate object - and a trans child insisting they are a different gender to the one their parents assumed them to be - SHOULD be obvious - but as this argument is one I hear often
and one I have direct experience of, I thought I'd look at it.
My cis kid did not want to be a dog at school.
Not being a real dog caused her zero distress.
When people mistook her for a girl it did not bother her at all.
She knew she was a girl PRETENDING TO BE A DOG.
My cis kid did not want to be a dog at school.
Not being a real dog caused her zero distress.
When people mistook her for a girl it did not bother her at all.
She knew she was a girl PRETENDING TO BE A DOG.
My daughter told me when she was 5 that she was a girl. I didn't know how long it would last but I had to face the idea that she might actually BE a girl and that if so, her future would be much more difficult than what I would ever choose for her.
Not knowing what to do other than love & support my child, I contacted our Dr & @TENI_Tweets They said don't encourage or discourage, just support her & be lead by her. I was told that trans kids are persistent, consistent & insistent about who they are.
3 years later she is still adamant that she is a girl. She told her friends at school, and then her whole class & her teacher that she was a girl, with no prompting from any adult, she just couldn't not be herself anymore. She asked her friends to accept her as a girl.
