from Fellowship Of The Minds:

A three-year-old doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand much of anything, let alone their “gender identity.”

At three (when this boy realized he was born in the wrong body) one is barely able to string a sentence together, can only county to ten, name a few colors of Crayola crayons, follow three-step directions, and begins to understand the concept of “same” and “different.”

Yet somehow this child was able to fully grasp the concept – at three years old – of being born in the “wrong body.”

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From Yahoo: A 12-year-old, who is one of Britain’s youngest transgender children, has started transitioning after realising she was born in the wrong body aged just three.

Though Ash Lammin was born male, her mum says she insisted that she was a girl as soon as she could speak.

Terri Lammin, 43, said it was “heartbreaking” watching her daughter, who was born Ashton, grow up confused and upset by her body. “By age five, she was asking ‘when is someone going to chop my winky off?’, and questioning why she had it at all,” Terri explains.

According to her mum, Ash is the perfect example of a child who has been born in the wrong body.

Now, aged almost 13, the youngster is embarking on a lengthy journey to transition her gender from male to female at an NHS-run clinic, becoming one of the youngest children in the UK to do so.

Ash, who changed her name by deed poll to Ashley when she was eight, will start by taking hormone blockers to halt the onset of puberty.

It isn’t a decision the family have taken lightly, and Ash has researched the process incessantly. She eventually hopes to have a womb transplant so that she can be a mother when she’s older.

In response to critics who have accused Terri of taking drastic decisions on behalf of a child who is too young to know better, the mum points out that Ash will take the blockers until she is 18. At that point, she herself will decide whether to go ahead with gender reassignment surgery.

If she decides not to go ahead with it, Ash will come off the blockers, and puberty will kick in just a few years later than her peers.

Her mum says she never thought Ash’s confusion about her gender was a phase, but at first she found it difficult to know how best to react. “When she was three she said to me, ‘I’m a boy because you gave me a boy’s name – it’s your fault,’” Terri explains. “I remember feeling horrible, because she blamed me. I’d never come across it before and I just went along with it. I just thought ‘if he’s happy, well that’s the main thing.”

But life became much harder for the family when Ash started at primary school. “I sent her to school in a boy’s uniform. I felt awful, she didn’t want to wear it and I was making her,” Terri explains.

“The school were great. The headmaster at the time said ‘if you think it’s going to make life easier then bring Ash in a girl’s uniform’, so I did.

“I was in a right state. I thought ‘everybody is going to think I’m weird’ – but Ash loved it. “Before, when I was taking her into school, she was biting me and kicking me, she didn’t want to go in. As soon as she put the girl’s uniform on, she wanted to go every day.”

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