A 6-year-old boy in the United Kingdom wants to change his sex, and the mother not only supports but also helps her son dress up as a little girl, causing controversy in the local area.
The mother, Amanda Kafton, said that her son's original name was James, but the son was convinced that he was a girl, and she later gave her son the girl name of Tracy, and Amanda has always been very supportive of her son's behavior.
Amanda, a 29-year-old seamstress, started kindergarten last August when her son James started kindergarten and decided to become Tracy. After that, my son was very happy. Amanda said: "When the son was still young, we asked him if you were a boy or a girl, and he would sometimes answer the boy, but most of the time the answer was a girl. ”
At that time, she went to correct her son like most parents, but when his son went to kindergarten, he began to become very active and his gender perception began to change.
Since then, Amanda has been referring to her son by Tracy's name. Because the son told her in a serious voice that he was a girl and would always be a girl. For most adults, Amanda says, this is pretty scary. She was glad that her son had enough confidence and security to make a gender change. But not everyone supports Tracy, and Tracy's grandparents never want to see Tracy again when they learn that their grandchildren have become granddaughters.
Amanda remarried Aaron, a 32-year-old software engineer, and she no longer had contact with Tracy's biological father, and the child's grandparents did not support Tracy becoming a girl.
Tracy once sent a video to her grandparents and was very excited to tell them that he was a girl, that they weren't reacting well and didn't want to talk to him anymore. On his birthday, his grandparents took him to the boys' clothing area to buy clothes and told him that he had to pick out clothes there.
Back home, Tracy was so upset that Amanda had a heated argument with her grandparents, who were traditional Christians and very traditional in their thinking.
Tracy's kindergarten was great, and most of his classmates liked him, but a few children were influenced by their parents and kept telling Tracy that he was a boy and asking him to be a boy all the time.
To avoid conflict with other parents, Tracy does not go to the male and female toilets at school, but uses the bathroom of the nurse's station. Amanda hopes to use the school's girls' restroom when she moves to Overland Park.
Tracy is now in a gender clinic where a psychologist helps him understand his gender identity, and Amanda has made an appointment for him at an endocrine clinic so that Tracy can suppress puberty with blockers and take estrogen.
Amanda said she would support her son in having sex reassignment surgery at age 18, and Tracy might change back into a boy, though the therapist said children as confident as he were generally not going back. Tracy is very much convinced that he is a girl, he doesn't want to be a man, he doesn't want a beard, he doesn't want male genitals. He wanted to be a whole girl, and when he was a little older, he could make the final decision.
The Amanda family caused a stir in their conservative hometown, but Amanda vowed she would always support the children. When they go to the grocery store, someone praises Tracy as cute, and Tracy says, "Yeah, I'm a little girl now." Then people would look at him differently, and whenever people found out he was transgender, they would look at him very negatively, signaling Amanda with their eyes, "Why is your child like this?" ”。
Amanda said, "If we don't support our children, how can we expect our children to have confidence in themselves?" If they don't have faith in themselves, don't expect them to change our future. Humanity has been trying to be better and more equal. ”
Cover news editor Elin compiled from Metro
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