Thread by @AidanCTweets

Here are two snips of articles about Nicole Maines, and the questions she asked at 3 years old. She's now a 20-something trans woman.

And then, here is @DrJessTaylor tweeting that hating your genitalia at three years old is an indication that you've been sexually abused!

"Safeguard immediately" means that in her professional opinion, once Nicole asked about when her penis was going to fall off, she should have been removed from the home, and adults in contact with her - her parents - should be investigated for sexual abuse.

This is, in my opinion, a huge issue with professionals in contact with children who are "gender critical" in the workplace. They would immediately choose to devastate Nicole's family and Nicole because they would not firstly consider that she may be trans?!

That sort of action by professionals early in a child's life can have lifelong effects on children and parents.

Knowing that trans people can, in fact, express hate of their genitals from a very young age, but assuming abuse and "safeguarding" them "immediately" instead of...

...investigating that, and providing professional support, is wrong.

I really hope that Jess is an outlier in her profession, because it seems obvious to me, given the personal testimonies of trans people, that a professional should consider identity issues in the first case.

I read the attached article, and this incident happened 5 years ago. The single mother immediately contacted her GP, and her GP said the kid was too young for therapy. The kid was allowed to "dress up" etc. and only this year has decided to go to school as a girl.

They are now waiting for an appointment at a GIDs clinic (which can take years.)

And yet @DrJessTaylor has used her Twitter account to imply that this child has actually been sexually abused?!

Thank goodness she wasn't this woman's GP.

In my mind, it's deeply irresponsible of a person who identifies as a childcare professional on Twitter to use Twitter to imply sexual abuse based on a newspaper article like this, especially as the child's story subsequently indicates they are highly likely to be transgender.

I also think that this is an expression of a wider "gender critical" idea that kids are never actually trans, and an expression of being trans is a result of trauma. Which is to pepetrate the notion that all trans people are, in fact, damaged (and, therefore, dangerous) people.

Nicole Maine is now an ostensibly happy woman with a successful career. The only trauma she suffered was from transphobes when she was growing up.

The kid in the article is now reported to be a happy 8 year old, and isn't that the main priority?

"First, do no harm," right?

Can you imagine how different Nicole's or this kid's life would be - and their parents' lives - if professionals took @DrJessTaylor's advice and immediately "safeguarded" them?

That a professional would recommend that course of action is, to me, the real red flag here.