A program was shown on Wednesday 21st on Uk Chn4 titled " Trans kids: Time to talk !"
I personally felt Stella O' Malley ( trans woman ) presented the program very well . Some have slated her for a bias but I felt she was sympathetic and honest with the people featured on the program .
The first inteview was with the parents of an 11 year old F/M child . The mother made several interesting points , she was OK with puberty blockers being prescribed but did question if in ten years time she might have repercussions from allowing them to be used . She questioned if she should let puberty take it's course , Stella believed in her case it was a dark period for her but looking back it was right she lived through it to find herself . Later in the program she inerviewed an academic from Bath university who was asked to write a paper on young adults wanting to reverse the procedure , the outcome was they pulled the plug saying it wasn't in the University's interest to publicise it .
The distubing story towards the end was a confronation with non-binary protesters at a meeting in Bristol , the meeting was intended to support women's rites . One of the speaker was a transwoman , OK she was a little upset by protesters bursting in, some wearing masks , but the way she she spoke to the audience was more from the words of a man . I have to say I can see both sides of the argument , the fact that some say they are trans , non-binary doesn't give them all the rites females have , one speaker said that shouting , " I'm non-binary!" from the roof tops, doesn't make you a woman !
Stella shed a tear at the end of the program , she believes children are being misled , it's gone from little or no information to a saturation of freely available information which is not controlled in anyway .
Personally I have had conversations with schoolteachers who are having to take all this on board , the main problem they have is lack of guidance and training on how to deal with it . Maybe the cart is a little before the horse on these issues in the UK . The other problem is the growth of TG communtiy is stretching the NHS to it's limits .