The Mother Of One Of Britain’s Youngest Trans Kids, Age 8, Talks About Her Daughters Transition
September 24, 2019Luna Schofield has identified as a girl since she was three years of age. Her mother Janeen has revealed that the only thing her child wished for on Christmas was to be female, since the age of three.
Luna, now eight years old has officially changed her name and is thought to be the UK’s youngest transgender child. She has been given a new passport and permission to wear a skirt in school.
Janeen said about her daughter that initially she only thought that her “toddler’s silly pleas” to become a girl was just “a phase”. But Luna’s repeated appeals led her mother to reconsider her approach.
"My family felt she was too young to make the decision to be a girl. But I didn’t want to tell her how she felt and knew this wasn’t going away” Janeen recalls.
At age five, Luna was allowed to “socially transition”.
Mother Janeen and daughter Luna Schofield
"Before then she’d worn princess dresses to the local shop with me, or at home.
"On her fifth birthday, she spent the day at Disneyland Paris in a dress. She couldn’t have been happier.
“At the top of every Christmas and birthday wish-list was to be a girl.”
Janeen also recalls a time where it was “hard to accept” and felt she was “grieving” for her lost son.
"Suddenly I was so scared about how it might cause problems for her.
"I sat in my car and cried my heart out. I didn’t really know what trans meant.
"For weeks I was petrified Luna would have a loveless life full of people hating her.”
But as Janeen was researching she came to a different conclusion: “The more research, the more I realised transitioning didn’t mean the end.
"Luna could have a happy life and find love as a girl.”
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