The support for this is the child preferring to wear boy clothes. Really? THAT is how the parents perceive gender, clothing? How can a 4 or 11 year old be allowed to undergo dangerous hormone therapy. I wonder the risk of cancer and other illnesses.
Transgenders tend to be the most sexist people I’ve dealt with. Look at the “I am Jazz” book, purporting that a girl who likes sports might be a boy and a boy who likes to cook is a girl. That the boy might grow up to be a chef or the girl a gymnast doesn’t matter.
They actually seek to define themselves by strict adherence to old fashioned gender roles, the long hair and dresses and all-out makeup for the “women”, as masculine as possible for the women who deny that fact. Hence the transmen eagerly crafting beards.
I agree with Camille Pagalia, this leads to tomboys being told they are really boys and girls with Autism who follow more logical, rules based and more “male” mental patterns they are actually female. Thus being autistic results in a several fold increase in being identified as transgender, when it is really a lack of normal behavior patterns we associate with the gender.
The tomboys that I knew as a kid were neither “butch” nor lesbian.
If the authorities want to sex-change this girl simply because she wants to wear pants and t-shirts, THEY are holding to gender stereotypes.