I sometimes wonder if I and some others may be, at times, a little too precious with this issue. After all, it has progressed enormously in my life time.
I'm sure many of us worry that, so many issues could be twisted to alter direction, at least for a time. I listened, this morning, to a phone in discussion, If little boys should be 'allowed' to play with girl's toys. All said certainly, but one qualified it, by saying he drew the line at little boys wanting to wear dresses.
Another point, which seems to have been badly distorted, is the issue over children who express transgender but change their minds later. This is being twisted as clear evidence that it's all just a silly child hood fad.
For us in the UK at least, this issue is now an established part of medical diagnosis. For that reason, it seems unlikely that public opinion will have much effect. But that still leaves children, at the mercy of a potentially hostile world.
I think of my own parents who I know, would rather have seen me diagnosed as a raving lunatic, drugged for his one good, than a homo. I doubt they could have even considered me as a girl. As unfortunate, even sad, as that is for many children, times are changing.
Then it occurred to me. As similar, even related, the issues of transgender are, from people expressing themselves, they are different.
Transgender don't need to express themselves like the opposite sex, we need to express ourselves as our own sex. I am a girl who was born with an ugly bit. Many little boys are born with different, equally ugly bits, (for them). We simply need to be allowed to live as we are. I didn't want to play with girls, I wanted to play with other children who are the same gender as I am. I am a girl. I don't want to be a women, I already am!
