We Need To Stop Telling Our Kids They’re Transgender

Sharon McCutcheon

When I was a child, I loved to wear boys’ swim shorts and go swimming without a top on. I preferred to wear clothing from the boys’ section and I was considered a “tom-boy”. Now, we have replaced the word tom-boy with transgender.

The vast majority of stories I have heard about young transgender children have a fair amount of influence coming from the parents and adults…