(Daily Mail) – For five-year-old Jayden Rogers – wearing her favorite dress and sparkly shoes in front of her mother, Jody – was born a boy. And Greg, the young bearded man who has been Jayden’s father for the past three years, was born a girl. They are believed to be Britain’s first two-generation transgender family and Jayden is one of the youngest children in the country to switch gender. The couple is aware that a fierce debate is raging about a large number of young people choosing to change sex and after Jayden

insisted on living as a girl nearly a year ago, they found themselves at the center of their own distressing battle. For although Jayden’s teachers, friends and most of their neighbors have accepted the child’s gender transition, others have mounted a campaign of online abuse centered on the unfounded claim that the parents had somehow cajoled their child into becoming a girl. The nightmare began with an anonymous complaint to social services from a resident who saw Jayden playing outside the family home in girls’ clothing and accused the couple of child abuse. READ MORE


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