Next month's New York Fashion Week,
will usher in a very young face.
Her name is Noella McMaher, she is 10 years old this year and comes from Chicago.
Although she is not old, she is already a veteran on the catwalk.
html Noella was present in Chicago Fashion Week 13 years ago,
New York Fashion Week in February this year,
and the future Paris Fashion Week .
Her model work schedule has been scheduled to after November.
However, compared to the talented child models on the show,
Noella also has a more resounding title - The youngest transgender model in the world.
When she was more than two years old and less than three years old, Noella had her own gender consciousness.
Although she was born a boy, she didn’t like boy’s clothes and would get angry when they put them on.
If someone praised her or said something about her, What a cute boy,
Noella knows how to make milky sounds Angrily retorted: "I'm not a boy, I'm a girl!"
Because she hates all masculine things,
html When she was 14 years old, her mother Dee took her to a gender clinic and carried out "social transformation" with the doctor's approval,
By the age of 6, the gender on Noella's birth certificate had legally changed from male to female.
Dee is very proud of this.
praised that Noella was born very firm and confident in her own identity.
This kind of confidence is even more clear on the T stage.
"When she was two years old, she told us that she was not a boy.
html When she was 14 or 5 years old, her social identity changed.
Before she was 7 years old, she legally changed her gender. No.
When she knew she could be a girl freely, she truly had a life. "
Dee would often encourage her daughter in a childish tone:
"You are the most confident person I have ever seen. grow up , I want to be like you."
Dee (right) and Noella and Ray (left)
However, looking at Dee's "capable and handsome" look,
You know, this family is very unusual and very complicated.
Dee herself is also a transgender . As Noella's biological mother, she changed from female to male (hereinafter referred to as "he"),
his breasts have been removed, Currently undergoing hormonal treatment.
Noella is the child of Dee and her ex-husband Timothy. They also have a young son named Levi.
Due to different ideas, the two have long been divorced.
Now Dee alone has custody of the children.
Later, he worked for sexual minorities While working in a group, I met my current partner Ray again. , also a female-to-male transgender person,
Ray and Dee
Now, Dee and Ray are raising a baby named "theybie" together,
As the guardian of their three children, Dee said that his job , is to embrace children’s self-awareness and needs.
A family of five
"Noella knew who she was from a young age. Her gender identity came much earlier than the two of us.
We grew up There is no forcing her to be a girl.
Ray and I only have two pairs of shoes, and we have no interest in fashion.
But Noella is different. She loves sequins, makeup and beautiful clothes. We don’t know how to encourage her. Such femininity.
Noella is still too young to have made any physical changes,
However, Dee is already prepared and plans to have her daughter undergo gender surgery when she is 16 years old.
Before the operation, she will start taking puberty blockers. , receive hormone therapy.
Today, Noella has become the spokesperson of the transgender community.
In 2019, she became the governor of Illinois When an executive order was signed to protect the rights of sexual minority students in schools,
Noella was beside the governor. She was wearing a pink tutu and a huge bow on her head.
T-shirt read: " This is what transgender people look like.”
Although she is only 10 years old, Noella has become a phenomenon and represents a lot of things in the world today,
The group of transgender models is also getting bigger and bigger.
Because of this, Noella’s job offers are dizzying.
At this rate, earning one to two million US dollars next year will be a piece of cake for Noella. .
However, while the family members were cheering for her,
there was one person who was very unhappy.
He was Noella's biological father - Chicago scientist Timothy McCord.
Timothy
Since the child was 4 years old, Timothy has been very opposed to her so-called transgender identity,
At that time, he and Dee had separated, but he still had visitation rights ,
When Dee went to work, the two of them also had to share the responsibility of taking care of the children,
For example, cooking dinner for Noella and putting her to bed.
htmlOne day in July, Timothy put the child into pajamas as usual, but Noella refused to wear the boy's clothes no matter what.
Timothy got angry and grabbed the child's arm, then gave her medicine and asked her to hurry up. sleep.
Unexpectedly, such a small move caused a big disaster,
The next day, because Noella felt that her arm was still very painful, Dee immediately reported her husband to the child protection agency,
He warned Timothy: "The child's arm has been broken. Yeah, you better find a lawyer."
Not long after, Timothy was arrested on charges of aggravated child abuse and spent several nights in jail.
Later, because he was worried that he would not win if he continued to fight the lawsuit, he pleaded guilty to endangering children,
and was sentenced to plead guilty. , sentenced to probation.
Eventually, he lost custody of Noella and his other son,
and he has never seen his two children since.
In addition, Dee also tried to have Timothy convicted of a "hate crime against transgender people" because of this incident, but was unsuccessful.
Looking at the current state of his eldest son, Timothy felt very helpless,
"I have no say, she is no longer my child.
I tried to get back into their lives, but in the end everyone was so noisy. It’s too stressful to open a relationship
However, if he does it in the future. If you have any questions, I can find them easily."
Netizens have the same attitude. Dee's approach may ruin the child's life:
"The child is so pitiful, but I am old. I hope I live long enough to see this kid write a book about how his parents abused him. I bet there will be more in the book than what we see now."
" Does anyone remember? Two or three years ago, child protection agencies would have taken children away from such devastating families and initiated proceedings against the parents? "
" I sincerely hope they are happy, but I'm sorry that this family may have to go through a lot of heartbreak and have to pay a lot of money for psychological counseling. "
"No 2-year-old child understands that they want to be the opposite sex. This is simply impossible.
If someone wants to ‘transgender’, they should wait until they are an adult before making the decision.
This is pure child abuse and I believe having two 'transgender' parents has nothing to do with their son acting like a daughter.
There are two words that should never be put together, and that is transgender children. "
html Sinead Watson, who changed from female to male at the age of 123 and changed his gender back 4 years later, also expressed his unacceptable opinion:
"I can't believe that this child legally changed his gender when he was 6 years old. The whole thing is deeply disgusting.
This child’s parents happen to be ‘transsexuals’ or ‘homosexuals’. This is not surprising to me at all.
They are imposing their own ideology on innocent babies.
Like a social contagion spreading among disadvantaged children, more and more parents are suffering from Munchausen syndrome by proxy (a condition in which a caregiver deliberately exaggerates or fabricates the physical, mental, behavioral, or spiritual appearance of a care recipient) problems, or even mental illnesses that contribute to such problems),
It is not the children who want to be transgender, but the parents who want them to be transgender.
6-year-old undergoing gender surgery is even more child abuse.
Thinking about how many children will be harmed in the future, I feel disgusted. These parents are unforgivable. ”
Sinead Watson
Whether from the perspective of bystanders or those who have experienced it,
It is unacceptable for such a young child to have a sex change.
But parents keep saying that it is to let their children be brave enough to be themselves...
I can only hope that Noella will not be there... In the distant future, I can grow up happily and worry-free....
