2025-02-04 05:57
My youngest kid told me they were trans aged 12. We immediately started picking a new name, new clothes, letting family know, letting school know, getting a new haircut etc, they’d already experienced puberty so accessing puberty blockers was not necessary. We spoke to the doctor and among other issues with MH and got put on a waiting list to go to the gender clinic. We navigated changing rooms and toilet use at school.
School was ROUGH for them. The bullying was rife, the mean comments were 🪡