All change for the 12 year old!

"That drag queen looks young" I said to a work colleague the other day when I was out on the scene and the drag queen doing the turn looked like he, her, it should have been in nappies/diapers!

Maybe it because I'm getting older that the female impersonators, drag queens and trannys around the place seem to be getting younger and younger. But nothing could have prepared me for the strange, bizarre and shocking news that greeted me from the local and the national newspaper here in England "Boy 12 Turns Into Girl"

It was the puzzling, yet touching story of a boy of 12 years of age turned up at school for the first day of term as a girl. His parents had supported his choice and he'd had his name legally and plans to undergo hormone treatment and eventually a full gender reorientation operation later in life.

He arrived on the first day of school wearing a dress and pigtails according to The Sun newspaper. It reported that the teachers, at the southern England school had called an emergency assembly to try and explain the sex change and to instructed students to begin treating their classmate as a girl. According to other media reports, some confused children reportedly burst into tears. The child in question was not at the assembly and has not returned to school since the announcement was made, after there was a fair amount of jokes, jibes and name calling.

“We are committed to ensuring the best for our child,” his mother told The Sun newspaper when it broke the story on Friday. The family had apparently hoped the transformation might go unnoticed since the initial gender switch was done during the summer vacations and as the child transferred from primary to secondary school. The article then also detailed how the boy, was often telling his friends that he wanted to be a girl, that he should have been a girl, and would often wear ribbons in his hair and also wore a bikini to swimming lessons.

Following the fallout from the assembly, the family has allegedly been threatened, and is under police protection. They are keeping the child home until they feel her safety is no longer at risk, the paper said.

Then on Saturday, I was even more surprised to see another headline, regarding another transformation from boy to a girl, this time the headline was "Now boy 9, is a girl"! What's happening here in the south of England What's in the water, changing our little boys to little girls - ANOTHER boy has turned up at school as a girl!

Parents have criticized the primary school for not alerting them, and for telling pupils at a special assembly. Classmates of the nine year old gender swap boy were told he had left and been replaced by a girl. The child returned to school the next day - in female uniform, with long hair in a ponytail, tied in pink ribbon. The same newspaper, The Sun, one of Britain's top selling daily newspapers, broke the news of how Parents faced a flurry of questions from their bemused kids after school - and blasted staff at the primary for not informing them of the switch. One concerned mum said: "My son came home from school and asked why one of his friends had become a girl. I thought he was joking, but he kept asking - that's when alarm bells began ringing.

It's unclear at this stage, what's going to happen to the two children concerned, how things will develop and proceed, but one thing has to be paramount and that is the welfare of these two individuals, from different schools, here in the south.

This is just the start of a very long road for them, in England you can not undergo hormone treatment for sex change operations until you are at least 18years of age. It's also the start of a very long life of abuse and discrimination, which the majority of gender realignment or transgender people face in their daily lives.

I knew one such person, who from an early age thought and believed he'd been born in the wrong body, that he was a boy that should have been a girl. During his teenage years, he'd talk to people about this, but no one took it seriously, there was little help and even less understanding at the time he told me. He has been so depressed at times during his late teens and early 20's that suicide was not far from his mind, as he became more and more awear that he was born as the wrong sex. He's now in his late 30's, has had some surgery and lives as a woman on the outskirts of Brighton.

I only hope that things have moved on and are a little easier for these two very young children, who are embarking on the same journey as my friend, it's going to be hard. However, it's also a testament to how broadly our society has changed, that these two lads, we able to express their feelings and desires in this matter.

In other news, it's come to light that a French person has won the Euromillions lottery game scooping a massive 83 million quid and I'm well hacked off by that. Not because it's a woman, and not because it's a frog, but because it should have been me! Surely it was my turn to win the sodding thing, I mean I play each week, well OK, I play when I remember to get a ticket, but you know what I mean. Yes, in the words of Bright Eyes, I'd rather be working for a pay cheque than waiting to win the lottery, which is what I'm doing, but, I need a little luck, especially just lately. Surely it's about time, it was me!

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