Experts in the field of sex change are currently re-hashing UK guidelines on “hormone blockers” which could result in under 16’s being permitted to take them as well as trans gender surgery being extended to under 18’s.
Campaigners would welcome the change wholeheartedly, especially Kim Petras who is heading the protesters, after she became the world’s youngest transsexual at 16 following a long fight with the German government where she was finally permitted a sex change.
Kim Petras, who was born “Tim” in Cologne, Germany in 1992 termed her birth as an “accident of nature”. She secured her victory to become the woman she had always known she was, last November. However, she is under no disillusion about the trials it took to get to that stage, “I was bullied, especially by people who I didn’t know or from other schools. I had to fight to be myself for my entire life.”
Despite winning her case, there are many more children out there who are still fighting for their rights to a sex change. Two British children were recently revealed as suffering from “gender dysphoria” - where they feel they were born into the wrong body.
One of the children, aged 12, from West Sussex, tried to make a smooth transition from primary school to high school, going from being a schoolboy to a schoolgirl. However classmates soon realised who the pupil really was. The other child, aged nine years old, went back to school after the summer, sporting as new long ponytail and girl’s uniform, with hopes of being accepted as a female.
