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Trans boy in Texas to critics: ‘You’re not the person to tell me who I am’
No one can tell 12 year old Evan Singleton that he is too young to be living his life as a male.
It was three years ago that the transgender boy from Texas began living as a boy and he is very articulate in his response to anyone who thinks he’s too young to transition and to be taking puberty blockers.
‘I’d say, “Well, you’re not the person to tell me who I am,”‘ Henderson tells Al-Jazeera America in a segment that re-aired after the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance was defeated last week.
Henderson is quite clear on who he even believes has the right to share their opinion about his gender identity with him.
‘Unless I’m bugging them, unless I’m going, “Haha, I’m trans,” they have no right to come into my life and tell me what I need to do,’ he says. ‘That’s what my parents are for, and my parents are doing a great job raising me. I do my chores, I clean my room, and I help out. Not to gloat, but I’m a great kid, I’m getting A’s and B’s in school, and they have no right to come telling us, our family, what to do.’
Singleton is enrolled in a program for trans youth in Dallas at Children’s Medical Center called Genecis (GENder Education and Care, Interdisciplinary Support). According to the program’s website, puberty blockers is standard of care that grants time to gender dysphoric adolescents as they contemplate their long-term gender identity.
His mother had gone to more than 100 doctors and could not find anyone to treat her child until the family went to Children’s Medical Center Dallas.
‘If I went through puberty, I probably would have been one of those kids who just slice off their breasts,’ Singleton says. ‘And then, my mom would come in and be like, “Oh my gosh!” and then I’d probably go to a mental institution. It [would] probably be really awful.’
He is home schooled now after being subjected to bullying at school for being trans.
‘I’d sit alone. I’d eat alone,’ Singleton says. ‘I had no one to talk to. It hurt very much … [My classmates] hurt my feelings … they tried so hard to make me break down and do something and to make me lose control.’
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Greg Hernandez
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