The family began by discarding her boy name and referring to Gracie as “she” and “her.” She was also allowed to wear girl clothes outside the home, and her parents changed the gender on her birth certificate to avoid confusion at school. She is already two years into her transition, having started her public life as a girl at four. Gracie lives with her parents and younger brother in a small city in the East Bay. When I met Gracie, she was a few months out of kindergarten - pretty young for a transgender kid, I thought.
“No, it just made me sad.” Email the reporterĪnd that, in a child’s nutshell, sums up one side of a contentious debate about the right age for transgender children to begin what gender clinicians call “social transitioning.” “It was not right to me, and I didn’t want people to say that, but they said it,” she said. But when I asked Gracie how she used to feel, when other people thought she was a boy, she got straight to the point. “I’m transgender and there’s other kids that are transgender, too.”Īh, kids. “You’re transgender and there’s other kids that are transgender, too.” 'What if we let our son walk into the world in a dress with fairy wings, and crowns, and high heels, and even just in regular girl clothes … and then he changes his mind?' Molly, whose 6-year-old daughter, Gracie, socially transitioned at age four “What is special about you, and the same as everybody else in the camp?” she prompted. Her mother, Molly, tried to coax a reporter-friendly answer out of her.
It was created specifically to be a safe place for transgender kids, and in fact, being transgender is so unremarkable here, when I asked Gracie what makes it “special," she shrugged and said: This is Rainbow Day Camp, in the East Bay town of El Cerrito. One day last summer, bouncing all over the grounds at day camp, she looked as delighted as you'd expect any kid would on "Water Day.” The Controversial Research on 'Desistance' in Transgender Youth She's so young, she still likes to tack on "and-a-half" when giving her age, which is six. Gracie is the youngest transgender person I've ever met. Not all researchers agree, though, that this research is valid.But research has shown most children will give up their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents.Many gender clinicians now recommend parents 'socially transition' kids who persistently express a transgender identity.
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