Parents of trans children, your child is not a problem
Dr Helen Webberley on TalkTV: the conversion therapy ban, with Julia Hartley-Brewer, TalkTV
Trans children are a problem to be solved, a controversy to be managed, or a worry to be carried. That the debate around them is really about them, and that their parents must be caught in the middle of something difficult.
What I wanted to say in that moment, and what I will keep saying, is that a trans child is not a problem. They are a child who knows something true about themselves, and that is not a burden on their family or on anyone else. The noise around conversion therapy bans, around legislation, around what gets said on television, none of that changes the simple fact that these children deserve to live happily. I don't want anyone to be unhappy. That has never been what any of this is about.
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