Stonewall Says Toddlers Can Recognize They Are Transgender

UK-based charity Stonewall is under fire for tweeting that toddlers as young as two can “recognize their trans identity,” and suggesting that nurseries should implement policies to be more trans inclusive.

On July 22, the trans activist charity shared an article by Metro which featured testimony from a trans-identified female who coached her 4-year-old daughter into identifying as a boy.

According to the article, the girl’s parents had continuously asked the very young child if she felt like a boy, girl, or neither until the girl said she “identified as a boy today.”

The parents did not question her “male identity” but when the young girl desisted shortly after starting school, going back to acknowledging that she is a girl, they were not as accepting. They soon blamed her school for not being tolerant of her transgender identity enough, suspecting that the had shamed her back into identifying as a girl.

“I still call her my daughter, and so I worry I’m only making things worse. The main reason I’m still gendering her this way is because she’s comfortable being called a girl, but expresses discomfort with being anything else, presumably because of what her teacher has said.” The mother, who identifies as transgender, told Metro.

The article goes on to suggest that the young child was not a girl because she rejected femininity.

“She’s parroting things she knows girls are supposed to like” the parent told Metro. Ignoring the possibility that 4 year old was simply gender non-conforming, the parent suspected her love for books with male characters indicated she identified as a boy.

Stonewall shared the article and stating research shows that children as young as 2 years old can know that they are “trans.” While the charity did not site a source on this information, many netizens noted that the sentiment mirrored the research of disgraced sexologist Dr. John Money. Money coined the term “gender identity,” and is often described as the father of modern day gender identity theory.