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Today, where does the Cass review leave the trans teenagers who need support? Hi there I'm

I'm off this week.

Apparently we're more productive at work after a good holiday.

So I'm counting this Caribbean rum distillery tour as professional development.

Yours, Colin.

Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday, Atoll protected. So I was really like a tomboy for like most of my childhood and then about age 12 I was trans. This is Chase, not their real name, they're 17 now and

studying for their A levels. I think I've been feeling that way for a while before I knew what sort of label to put on it and even then I didn't

I didn't really know what was happening and then I sort of thought okay 12's quite young

because I'd sort of like ingested that narrative of there's like a right time and like a right age to come out.

So it's like, I'll sit on this for a while.

Chase's parents noticed early on that while. and that perhaps Tomboy didn't seem to fit them either.

Theresa, Chase's mom, waited to see if it was something they wanted to talk about.

And then around kind of 1213, they would start conversations and then stop them.

So we'd be walking down the street and Chase would out of thin air say,

do you know there's such a thing as gender fluidity?

And I kind of go, oh, okay, tell me about that then.

And then they go, oh no, I don't want to talk about that.

And then they change the subject.

And I think, okay.

So it wasn't a surprise when they came out because we could see it happening.

We'd never had a conversation about it.

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