@zoesqwilliams
Just stop.
There is no such thing as a 'trans child', because childhood is an incomplete developmental phase.
Children's brains and bodies have not yet finished forming.
Their neurobiological, identity and physical development is years and years away from completion.
By giving in to their fantasy that they are opposite sex, you are advocating for the removal of vitally important emotional containment and necessary boundaries.
Boundaries which should be imposed by adults.
@Girlguiding (albeit reluctantly), has done these little boys an enormous favour, because what children need above nearly anything else, is for adults to be adults and to say "no" when required.
Yet here you are, outrageously arguing for the further destabilisation and dysregulation of already disturbed and vulnerable boys (whilst completely ignoring the psychological needs of girls not to be lied to, and to feel safe in single-sex spaces).
Leave the children alone, Zoe.
To use your own language, you need to stop "capsizing" the construction of childhood.
Human sexual development is not like a pick-and-mix from Tescos.
Real life is not a video game where these children can create an avatar and become whatever 'gender' they want.
They are either boys.
Or they are girls.
And boys are never, ever that miscreated, chimerical grotesquery, "trans girls".
Children have enough to deal with nowadays without overly permissive and irresponsible adults like you, Lady Macbeth-like, dripping dangerous mummery about being the opposite sex into their vulnerable and still not yet fully-formed brains.
Just give it a rest, Zoe.
Boys can join the Cubs and do whatever they like there.
My two did and they are now healthy, strapping, well-adjusted young men.
For what will be a fleetingly short period in their lives, just let little girls have something entirely for themselves.
OK, Zoe?
Yes,
@zoesqwilliams
Girlguiding could have become mixed.
But that would lose its USP so they don't want to.
Also, trans identifying males ONLY want to invade single sex spaces. You have obviously been under a rock.
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