Insight (1995)

Transgender (2013x28)

Uitzenddatum: Sep 16, 2013

"She started hitting herself to try and get the boy out, So then we just said enough's enough." – Beck Seven-year-old school girl Maddi loves dancing, the colour pink and wearing dresses. But only a year ago Maddi was known to her friends and family as 'Maddokk’. She was born a boy. Psychologists and psychiatrists say people are presenting as transgender at younger and younger ages. But parents are at loss to know whether their child is truly transgender or if it’s "just a phase". And the stakes are high – especially with the availability of medical interventions like puberty blockers and hormone changers. This week Insight speaks with children and their families, asking how parents can be sure whether their child is transgender and how they’re choosing to deal with it.