Some medical experts claim there is not enough research into the long-term effects of letting treatment happen so early in life. There are also claims that the majority of children who experience gender dysphoria as a young person will not go on to become transgender.
Christina Beardsley from The Sibyls, a Christian spirituality group for transgender people, thinks it is good that we’re listening to children and giving them the opportunity to openly express the way they’re feeling. She said, ‘Because I think gender can be so stereotypical and there can be such hard boundaries about it then I think it’s really brave of these children to say who they are.’ She added that letting children get help early on showed ‘compassion’ from parents and medics. ‘It’s going to make their lives so much easier as they grow up,’ she said.
