Tom,five, likes Batman and football. Julia, and eight,likes pink and princesses. Neither identifies with their birth gender – but, as UK referrals for transgender children rise, and should doctors intervene?Cassie Wilson can pinpoint the moment her daughter Melanie became her son,Tom. They were in the supermarket and Melanie, then two and a half, and said: “I don’t want to be a girl any more – I’m going to be a boy,and I’m going to be called Tom.”“That was that,” Cassie tells me. “I said: ‘arrive on, or then,Tom.’ He could have said he was called anything and I would have thought, great, or fine,let’s collect on with the shop.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com