Rosie51
On 26th January 2022 Scotland (in line with some other countries) brought in sentencing guidelines for under 25s, based on worldwide scientific research, because the brain is not fully developed before then. Yet we think children are 'brain developed' enough to make decisions and take medications that have irreversible effects on their growing bodies.
I struggle to understand how a 2 year old could be so cognisant about the differences between boys and girls to want to be the other. Surely children of that age are still very much 'gender neutral' without outside influences? I'm glad it's worked out for the child you know. Children have all sorts of ideas about what they want to be. My 4 year old niece really, really wanted to be a horse and would frolic around and neigh, but we didn't affirm she was one. In her nativity play at nursery school they wanted her to be Mary, she insisted she'd be the donkey since there was no horse character. Puberty can be pretty awful for anyone. My grandson with severe autism and learning difficulties is finding puberty extremely distressing.
I don't quite understand a two year old having this view either. That is extremely young to be holding that sort of conversation.
At that age, I would think they are just toddlers, with no understanding of what sex/gender is what.
When my children/grandchildren were two, their only important (to them) thoughts revolved around going to the swing park, reading picture books, and singing The Wheels on the Bus at top volume etc...?
When I was about 6, my parents took me to see the film King of Kings, which had just been released at cinemas. I apparantly spent the next 6 months, with a Tea Towel on my head, clutching a doll, wanting to be the Virgin Mary lol. That didn't come to pass though.?
Which all seemed pretty normal. Glad it all worked out for the young person though.
