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Like being able to vote, drive a car, or own property etc; making a substantial change like this should require a minimum age. This child has not developed enough to fully understand what they are doing.
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One of Britain's youngest transgender children has begun transitioning at the age of 12 after realising she was in the 'wrong body' aged just three.
Terri Lammin, 43, from Ramsgate, Kent, said that watching her daughter Ash - born Ashton - grow up confused and uncomfortable in her own body was 'heartbreaking.'
She said: 'Although she was born male, from the moment she could speak Ash insisted she was a girl.
'By age five, she was asking "when is someone going to chop my winky off?" - and questioning why she had it at all.'
Terri Lammin, 43, from Ramsgate, Kent said that watching her daughter Ash (pictured) - born Ashton - grow up confused and uncomfortable in her own body was 'heartbreaking'. The 12-year-old has begun transitioning by taking hormone blockers which will prevent her puberty
My niece is now 10. Shes been wanting to be a pony since she was three. She thought that the nails from the horseshoes hurt a bit though.

Why are we allowing children, whose brains havent finished developing, to take life altering hormones? Isnt this child abuse? Arent you supposed to protect children even from themselves??