Parent Story: From Blue to Pink
The following is a personal account, first written as two blog posts by one of our parents, reproduced by kind permission of @Feudaltimes. My daughter is extremely bright, most articulate…
Parent Story: Helen
Until July 2016 we were a standard family. My husband, me and our two children – one son and one daughter. We raised our children to believe that toys, activities…
Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions
From Amazon: The teen years can be daunting for any parent. But if you are the parent of a teen who lashes out or engages in troubling behaviour, you may…
Gender Issues for Autistic girls
This article first appeared on the Autism Hampshire website. It is reproduced here with kind permission of the Author. Advice for Parents with Gender Atyptical Daughters I write this article…
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
We expect an enormous amount from our teenage girls in a world where they are bombarded with messages about how they should look, behave, succeed. Yet we also speak as…
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most…
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
WINNER of the 2018 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018 'Finally, a book about the adolescent brain written by someone who actually does the science! Highly readable, ground-breaking'…
Women & Power: A Manifesto
Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples…
Puberty Blockers: A Letter to a Parent
Background Those of us who give our time to our support group do so because we want to help fellow parents who are facing the same difficult parenting decisions as…
The Importance of an Unhappy Adolescence
It's miserable to be unhappy in your teenage years - but it is also profoundly important. It's hard to imagine adulthood going well if there haven't been quite a few…
BMJ Rapid Response: Supporting Parents of Children with Gender Dysphoria
Our BMJ Rapid Response, published 27 January 2020 at https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m215/rr-0 in response to this article by Sally Howard about the difficulties faced by GPs caring for young people with gender…
Top Ten Tips
Our Top Ten Tips At Bayswater Support, we seek evidence-based care and are cautious about ‘affirmation’. Here are our top ten tips for when your child identifies as trans or…
Statement to The Mail On Sunday about Puberty Blockers
On Sunday 16th January 2021, Sanchez Manning reported in The Mail on Sunday about GenderCare, a private clinic treating young people wishing to take cross sex hormones. We were asked…
Autism expert concerned over autistic girls declaring a transgender identity
In The Times Newspaper, a global expert on autism, Prof Christopher Gillberg, says autistic girls are adopting trans identities as they are ‘particularly vulnerable to seizing on a single answer…
Gender change is no fix for Autism
The Australian Article (paywall) The story was also covered in The Daily Mail. Article in The Australian, quoting Tony Attwood's statement that gender change in children could lead to later…