An Eight Year old boy identified as Emilia has expressed worry after his parents announced his recent status as a transgender girl.
Through various films posted on her dad’s channel, we see Edie, who has just turned eight, say goodbye to her former name Eduardo and watch her delight at being able to wear girls’ clothes.
“She’s beautiful, she’s amazing because she is a perfect mix of a girl and a boy,” said Jonathan (Edie’s father.
“She is probably the most understanding of all our children because she overcame something she oppressed as a child and then was told, ‘Hey, you can blossom, it’s okay.'”
Jonathan added: “I think the emotional intelligence of a child is something that people think, ‘Oh, no, she can’t have those feelings and have those emotions’. But if you talk to any adult trans people, they will tell you that they were trans from the day they were born.”
Meanwhile, Jonathan and his family have experienced a lot of “hate” from critics online about his and Edie’s gender identity.
“People will say you’re forcing it on her, or she is too young to know what is going on,” he said.
“But I’m like, that is your lack of exposure to that environment. You don’t have a trans child, you are not a trans person.”
