Put your kid on blockers or say goodbye
As always, apologies for quoting the Daily Mail, but you know how it is.
The parents of an autistic teenage boy were warned he would be taken into care after they objected to him being given powerful hormone drugs to help him change sex.
Doctors at an NHS clinic had recommended he be given puberty-blockers – which delay adolescence – after the youngster declared he believed he was female.
But his mother and father, fearing the potential side-effects of the drugs, stopped him going to the clinic. And they suspected his abrupt decision to change sex was a result of his autism.
After the boy told the school he had been barred from treatment, a teacher told his parents that they should find alternative accommodation for their son or else he would be put into temporary foster care. And the school reported the couple to children’s services for being ‘emotionally abusive’ to their son by not supporting his wish to change gender.
And it gets worse!
A month later, the local authority placed him in a child protection plan after social workers concluded he was likely to suffer ‘significant harm’ under his parents’ care.
However, the family avoided seeing the boy go into foster care because a family friend agreed that he could live with them. Children’s services have now taken the boy out of child protection and earlier this year he moved back home.
People have lost their damn minds.
So not pumping the kid full of powerful drugs is classified as “significant harm”? I guess it’s like how misgendering someone is actual violence, right?
If someone had told me 10 years ago…or even 3 years ago…that such a thing was possible, I would have laughed at them. I’m not laughing anymore.
In my novel I am currently writing, a girl who just started her period is wailing about not wanting to be a woman. “Wanta be a boy”. Her mother doesn’t immediately run her to the doctor for puberty blockers, because she realizes that her daughter wants to be a boy about like she wanted to be a boy at her age when she wished she didn’t have to become a woman…in other words, not at all. I am sure my mother character would be branded a TERF, and my book will be declared transphobic for one sentence out of the entire novel that references that. But, of course, my novel where I created a dystopia around menstruation was deemed transphobic because I talked about menstruation, and NEVER MENTIONED THAT MEN CAN MENSTRUATE, TOO. Shame on me. (Oh, and Ophelia blurbed the book, which probably got me the TRA seal of disapproval before they even opened the book).
The Mail doesn’t say whether the boy still feels the same way about his gender or if it was just a passing obsession that he’s dealt with and moved on.