"OFF-CAMERA:" "Paddy, is it a secret that you want to be a girl?" "Actually, I don't want to be a girl." "I am a girl." "Seven-year-olds Paddy and George have something in common - they'rebothtransgender." "They're not some circus freaks." "They're normal children who are born with the wrong plumbing." "Today, kids as young as three are saying theywerebornthe wronggender." "Are you a boy or a girl?" "Boy." "Because I want to be a boy." "But what do you do when your perfect baby girl wants to be a little boy?" "Go in there, otherwise I'll kill you." "George hates being identified as a twin, because he associates being a twin as being a girl." "Or your youngest son wants to be daddy's little princess?" "You bring the little baby home, a little boy." "You imagine kicking a football with him." "It just takes time to readjust your expectations." "Two families are keen to come out of the shadows to show the world what it's really like for thousands like them, tooscaredto speakopenly." "OFF-CAMERA:" "Wouldyouliketobe  a girl all the time?" "Yeah." "I wish I could, but I can't." "These families are the pioneers, telling their stories, seeking acceptance and desperately looking for support" "wherevertheycanfindit." "I was like you when I was younger." "I was born..." "I was born a girl." "Now I'm a boy." "Overthelastfiveyears, four times more children have come out as transgender." "And more and more parents are having to deal with the challenges that come when your child tells you that they want to be the opposite sex." "It's just..." "It's a girl's room." "The posters, the toys, the clothes." "You see, mostly pink." "Pink tends to be his predominant colour." "Pink, sparkly." "Only two years ago, Lorna and Paddy's five-year-old, also called Paddy, decided to change from boy to girl." "She also likes leopard print." "You hear me swapping from he to she, it's cos I'm trying to remember." "That's very, very difficult, trying to remember to change from he to she." "She to he." "It's very, very confusing." "The pronouns will trip you up all the time." "Yes." "That's what I'm on about." "Paddy was the youngest son of a family of eight with four boys, and the change has been hard for some of the household to accept." "To my shame, when he starting being that way at first, myself and a couple of the other lads teased him, going," ""Oh, you're a blooming girl."" "You know, teased him about being a girl." "That was wrong." "It was so wrong, because he is a girl." "The other night I was tucking Paddy into bed and I said," ""Come on, now, in you get." "Good girl."" "He says, "You're not teasing me when you call me a girl" ""any more, are you?"" "No." "It's just..." "little things like that get you, type of thing." "I think that's you feeling guilty because you teased him at first." "I know you didn't know." "It's all right, come on." "I hear so many stories of children when they get to around the age of puberty that are not being accepted either by parents or by friends or whatever," "harming themselves, killing themselves..." "Self-mutilation." "Trying to cut off their boys' bits or girls' bits." "This has got to stop, because all they want is to be loved for themselves and accepted for themselves." "That's why we want to do this, to raise awareness to try and make people understand that it's not a choice or parents forcing" "their children to put dresses on, this is how they're born." "Paddy doesn't dress as a girl all the time and still goes to school as a boy." "At the moment, he..." "It's his decision." "Her decision, whichever way you want to phrase it, to go to school in boys' uniform at the moment." "Although all his classmates all realise he might be a boy but he's the girliest boy in the class." "He's one of the girliest children in the class." "If they're doing something about football, they know John is very into his football." "One of them'll say, "John would be interested in this, miss,"" "but if they're doing one about Disney princesses, it's," ""Oh, Paddy would like this book, miss." ""Paddy would be interested in this book, miss."" "But his friends, at seven years of age, his peers, his friends accept that." "That's just who he is." "I don't know why the grown-ups can't be more that way." "Although the school are aware of Paddy's situation," "Mum and Dad worry about her being accepted in the future." "These are normal children." "They're not some circus freaks." "They're normal children who are born with the wrong plumbing." "You know, it's just..." "That's the long and the short of it." "Just as I'm born with brown eyes," "Paddy is born with a girl's mind and a boy's genitalia." "Hi, Anna." "Hi, Paddy." "How are you?" "Fine." "I got something from..." "Sit in your seat, and put your seat belt on." "Has the Easter holidays started yet?" "Yeah." "Oh." "No more school now for two whole weeks." "Yay!" "So what does that mean you wear for two whole weeks?" "Girlie clothes." "Would you like to wear a skirt to school?" "Yeah, cos instead of trousers, the girls have skirts." "Oh, and leggings to keep their legs warm." "Or is that tights?" "Tights." "Paddy is free to wear anything at home, but there's one thing you can guarantee - itwillalmostalwaysbepink." "I'm going to be an eight-year-old soon." "Yeah." "I won't have a seven-year-old daughter any more, then, will I?" "I'll have an eight-year-old daughter, won't I?" "Yeah." "Oh, heck." "What am I going to do?" "I will still be me." "Oh, you will." "That's true, yeah." "I suppose you going from girl to boy is very much like you going from seven to eight, you'll still be you and you'll still be the same." "I was never a boy." "All right." "Well, there you go." ""I was never a boy."" "OFF-CAMERA:" "So, Paddy, is it a secret that you want to be a girl?" "Actually, I don't want to be a girl." "I am a girl." "I just don't want people to make fun of me." "You're just the gender that you are." "You're that gender." "But I wish everyone was a girl." "Everyone?" "Yeah." "Paddy's parents are already wondering whether after the holidays Paddy will make the life-changing decision to go to school as a girl for the very first time." "We did say at the start that you may need to be careful, people may tease you etc." "It may be some of our fears have rubbed off on her, in which case..." "Shit." "Because she's seven, she don't need that." "Those worries are for us to worry about, not her." "Do you think you'll ever be a boy?" "Of course not." "Most children realise they are transgender by the age of six." "Identical twin sisters Jasmine and Georgia were born in 2007." "But six years later, Georgia became George." "The twins and their older sister live in Warrington with single stay-at-home mum Hayley." "How do you want your hair doing today, then, George?" "Like Niall." "Like Niall." "So who's Niall, then?" "One Direction." "Oh, is he out of One Direction, is he?" "Bytheageoftwo," "George was already showing signs of not wanting to be a girl." "What have you been doing today, then, George?" "Playing football." "Playing football?" "!" "Who do you support?" "Liverpool." "Oh, no!" "You don't support Liverpool, do you?" "Yes." "Changing genders at the age of four made George one of the youngest transgender children in the UK." "That OK?" "Yeah." "Good." "Good?" "Say thank you." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "See you soon." "Bye." "Thank you." "Bye." "It took mum Hayley a while to realise that one of her little girls actually wanted to be a little boy." "I was obsessed with them all wearing the same thing." "It was cruel, looking back." "But at the time, obviously, we didn't realise just how strongly he felt about it." "That day, "I don't want to wear a dress."" "See on that one, you can see the tears in his eyes." "He's just been crying." "We made him put that dress on." "Yeah." "I've never made him, since that day." "No." "That's upset me, seeing the tears." "And people that try to say," ""You wanted a son, you've made him like that."" "If I wanted a son, he would never be in that dress in the first place." "I would have dressed George like a tomboy from day one." "Yes." "Which I haven't." "You know, look at that, look at that, look at that." "Look at that as a baby." "A pink babygro with dolls." "Yeah." "Some just don't understand it." "People that say, "They're too young, you shouldn't indulge George."" "George isn't too young, cos look at the many, many men and many women that get married, have kids and then, when they're in their 30s, 40s, 50s or whatever turn round and say" "to their wives, break down and say, "I was born in the wrong body."" "If they had been able to express themselves as a child, they would never have had to have lived a lie." "George, however difficult it's going to be, in the here and now is not living a lie." "Yeah." "Since his transition, George has distanced himself from everything that reminds him of being a girl, including his identical twin sister." "I miss, like, when we could play hairdressers and princesses and fairies." "Now I don't really play with him." "George said, "I don't want to wear this dress,"" "and that was when George first became a boy." "The old George was gone and the new George came along." "I miss the old George, because George used to be like me." "George has got this obsession with not being associated with Jasmine by being a twin, because he associates being a twin as being a girl." "George's obsession with not wanting to be seen as girlie is now causing a rift between him and his sister." "Go in there, otherwise I'll kill you." "AndJasminecanfeelrejected." "JASMINE SOBS" "With everything resting on her shoulders, mum Hayley is desperate to find a way forward for her family." "He called me a clown freak and pushed me." "One in 1,000 schoolchildren identify as transgender." "One of those children is seven-year-old Paddy, who lives in Leicester with Mum, Dad, and 12-year-old brother Robbie." "Paddy's transition from a boy to a girl has been difficultforRobbietoaccept." "How do you feel about Paddy being a girl?" "Confused." "Confused?" "What are you confused about?" "How does a boy have the brain of a girl?" "Well, I think that's something that happens while they're in the womb." "Parents Lorna and Paddy didn't realise at first that their son actually wanted to be their daughter." "Blue high chair..." "Look at you, fast asleep in your high chair." "Blue shirt." "Boy's shirt." "Did you know that I wanted to be a girl?" "We didn't." "Not back then, sweetheart." "I can see it now, when I look..." "Cos I know now." "How do you feel looking back at the photos when you were a boy and knowing that now you're a girl?" "Do you feel like you were a different person then?" "Yeah." "I don't really recognise myself." "No, I don't recognise you either." "I mean, that was you there." "You just look like your average little five-year-old lad type of thing, you know?" "But inside he wasn't a five-year-old lad." "Do you think when you guys were younger that this would be acceptedlikeit is ?" "I don't know, cos I mean it was a..." "Like, gay people were only just coming out on the TV as acceptable, weren't they?" "So society has grown as such more understanding, but I think it does need to grow more, cos a lot of people don't understand actually what it is to be transgender, you know." "I do." ""People choose it."" "No, they don't choose it." "Who would choose such a life of operations and bullies and problems and issues?" "Who would choose a life like that?" "Nobody in their right mind would choose it." "Certainly not a parent choosing it for their child." "What's your favourite colour, George?" "Jasmine likes pink." "Blue." "And why do you like blue?" "Just do." "Always have." "Doyoulikepink?" "No, eurgh!" "Whydoyounot likepink ?" "It's for girls." "Seven-year-old George, born Georgina, has been going to school as a boy for the last three years." "What are your favourite things to do, George?" "Drums, play football, play sport..." "Cars and racing, so yeah." "But transitioning from a girl to a boy has not been easy for George." "He'sevenhadtochangeschools." "George, you know, like, when you said about school, the old school, what was it that upset you the most?" "In what way?" "And who did you want to be?" "What is it that makes you happier in this school?" "That they respect my wishes." "And they should respect your wishes, shouldn't they?" "Because the last school, what were the last school like?" "How did that make you feel?" "I'll show you." "You'll show me?" "And what's that?" "How does that make you feel to see that?" "Heart broke, but... it's a positive thing, because now he's happy." "Although George is now happy at his new school, things at home are still strained." "It were Jasmine's fault." "He has been trying to forget his life as a girl, but his twin sister" "Jasmine is a constant reminder of who he used to be." "And is George not your best friend?" "I don't want to be her best friend!" "Whynot?" "See, he kind of like publically doesn't like to be Jas's best friend cos he associates being a twin and Jasmine with being you know what." "George still finds it difficult to talk about being born a girl and is desperately drawn to anything male." "Right, erm..." "The males in my family, he always tries to emulate." "If I want George to wear something or to do something," "I'll say, "Uncle Stuart did that when he was little,"" "and he'll be like, "Right," and he'll do it then." "That's my bargaining tool, cos he just wants to be like one of the lads." "In Leicester, former mechanic Paddy and mum Lorna are doing everything they can to accept their child Paddy as a girl." "Come on." "Let's do your nails." "Oh, you're on about cleaning them, not cutting them." "I'm on about cleaning them and we will file them and get some nice shape on them as well." "So you won't cut them?" "No, we won't cut them." "Thank goodness." "That one will need trimming a little bit, Paddy." "It's growing out of shape." "Look how long that nail's got!" "Cos I want them to grow." "You like curly nails, don't you?" "I find myself more and more, with Paddy, going through the same steps as I did with my daughter." "Well, she's 25 now." "She's a grown-up." "And we've always known that Paddy's been very close to me, but it's just sort of since this has been more embraced," "the transgender side of it, we realised why he's basically..." "You're Daddy's little girl, ain't you?" "Of course I am!" "Why would I not be?" "Paddy may be Daddy's little girl, but mum Lorna sometimes struggles with the idea that she has lost her youngest son." "She's written a poem about how she feels." "I had a little caterpillar, small, cute and blue." "He reminded me so much of you." "I loved him and fed him, tended his every need, but he wanted to change, I had to follow his lead." "I loved and supported, still wondering why, till the day my boy said goodbye." "You spun your silk all round your shell, you wove your web and said your spell." "The inside of your soul shone out and the real you came about." "I was amazed." "What else could I think?" "No longer a shy boy whose heart would sink, but a beautiful butterfly, loud, proud and pink." "Sometimes I miss my caterpillar boy, but my butterfly girl fills my heart with joy." "Do you like that?" "Yeah." "I really like it." "Yeah?" "What do you think it means?" "Well, caterpillars turn into butterflies." "And I was a boy and I turned to a girl, so I got that." "Oh, well done." "You got the symbolism, then." "What does that mean?" "That means what something's like." "That's what symbolism is." "I think it is, anyway." "Parents are often accused of encouraging transgender behaviour, something mum Lorna is all too aware of." "There's all sorts of different genders as such." "There's male, there's female, there's transmale, there's transfemale." "There's asexual, genderfluid." "You know, there's all different ones." "It's like, whoa, I just thought there was male and female and that was it." "And they have done scans and things in brains of transgender people, and they find that a transgender female, which is Paddy, would have a similar brain to a normal woman." "When you read stuff like that, you feel justified." "You know, not that I should have to feel justified or vindicated to anybody else, because we know we're doing the right thing for our child, our child's happy." "But it still makes you feel that way inside." "In Warrington, the twins' mum Hayley is reconnecting with an old school friend." "Withhisdadnot around, she's hoping a male role model is just what George needs in his life." "I've been e-mailing a guy that I went to school with, so yeah, he's always been very supportive and said that he's always there to chat." "He's a fireman." "He's got a couple of properties, you know, he's got a good career." "I think he's a very, very, very positive role model for George." "I mean, look at those muscles!" "Really, he's muscley, isn't he?" "He's buff!" "I'd normally train for probably about an hour and a half, four or five times a week." "I can escape from everything, and I can just concentrate on the way I'm training and changing my body." "Hayley's always had a good reason for wanting George to meet34-year-oldNick." "NickwasbornNicola." "I've known ever since primary school, so probably about four." "You know, ever since you can start relating and understanding, and I remember going to bed every night and beating my chest, and I must have been, I don't know, probably seven years old," "hoping and praying that I'd never wake up with breasts." "Unfortunately, I did, so God never listened." "I didn't know about trans until, probably 2007 I found out about the trans bracket, and I was like, "God, this is where I fit in."" "You know, "This is..." "I don't identify as being a lesbian." ""I'm trapped in this body." ""This is what I am and there is something I can do about it,"" "and for me that was hope." "Nick was finally able to start the physical changes needed totransitionintoaman." "My scars run from here all the way across, cos I had quite large breasts at the time." "So they needed to cut under, but it's quite hidden by my pecs." "But it doesn't really bother me, cos I've got the chest that I want." "As well as the double mastectomy, Nick has had to undergo a further six painful surgeries to become the man he always knew he was." "I wanted to be able to pee standing up." "I wanted it to look like a normal penis." "I also still wanted to be able to achieve an orgasm." "The only option for me was the radial arm phalloplasty." "What they do is they take the radial nerve, the artery from your arm, they take some of the veins, they take the fat and the skin and they make a penis and you also have the glans sculpted," "which is the tip of the penis, so it looks like a circumcised penis." "And the third operation is the erectile device, which is basically, you have a pump in the right-hand side of the ball and on the left you have a silicone implant, and when you want to get an erection," "you squeeze the ball and it goes hard, just like a normal penis, and when you want to go soft, you've got like a valve on the ball, which sits at the top of the ball and you squeeze that" "and then you squeeze the penis and all the fluid goes back into the reservoir which sits inside." "Inside your stomach." "I've waited this long and now I've got the results that I want." "It is a big part and when I look down now I do feel complete." "You know, "Look, I have got a decent-sized penis" ""and it looks aesthetically pleasing as well."" "So, yeah, I've got the full package." "Growing up, Nick had no-one to talk to or give him advice, something he would like to offer George." "You know, it brings back some unhappy times and times of struggle for me." "I was probably about six or seven there." "What do you think, when you look at that photo?" "I know it's me, but I just feel kind of sorry for that little girl there." "I'd like to go back to that age and be the little boy that" "I was supposed to be." "Happy there in that photograph, because I was allowed to dress like a little boy." "This one, er, that time I'd obviously hit puberty and it was just quite difficult to be... to feel a man trapped inside a woman's body." "In one week's time, Nick will get the chance to meet George." "When Nick was seven, he had no-one." "What would you say to your seven-year-old self?" "I'd be crouched here now hugging that little boy saying, "You know what?" ""Everything's going to be OK." ""You will be OK."" "And that..." "I feel upset because..." "I don't want to get upset." "Because I wish I had someone to say to me, you know," ""It's going to be OK." ""It will be OK when you're older." ""And you will live a normal life." "It will be hard along the way." ""I'm not going to lie to you."" "It's the Easter holidays and, in Leicester, seven-year-old Paddy is out in public with the family." "Away from school, the local fair is a chance to be as girlie as possible." "Well, this is some shoes, a mirror, earrings and a comb." "Parents Paddy and Lorna are starting to wonder if it's time for Paddy to go back to school as a girl." "It's when she's happy to go as a girl." "It's very much..." "Decisions like that have got to be led by Paddy and that's the only way to leave it." "Yes, I'd like her to feel herself all the time but I know, if she decides to go to school as a girl, there's going to be issues like people laughing at her." "Over 70% of trans-boys and over 50% of trans-girls reportbeingbulliedatschool." "Paddy and Lorna want their daughter to be able to defend herself if necessary." "Hi." "Hi, Paddy." "You all right?" "You ready?" "Yes." "You going to do a warm-up?" "Eight." "Nine." "Change." "Six." "Five." "Six." "As a parent and as a dad, you want to protect your children." "That's it." "With a trans-child who is going to be the target of bullies, it's something that you've got to be aware of." "No!" "Go away!" "Excellent." "No!" "Go away!" "Very good, Paddy." "Do you think Paddy knows what training's for?" "He knows there's an anti-bullying element to it but I don't think he fully understands the dangers as he grows older." "Back of the hands and down." "OK." "Well done, Paddy." "See you next week." "With the holidays coming to an end," "Paddy must decide if now is the time to finally leave the little boy behind." "In Warrington, the day has finally come for George to meet Nick." "The seven-year-old has been looking forward to it all week." "Mum Hayley is hoping a male role model is just what George needs in his life." "It's actually the first time that George will have met another trans person." "Nick's such a good role model." "It'll be nice." "It'll be really, really positive for George to know that the future isn't necessarily so scary." "Hiya, Nick, you OK?" "Yeah." "Good to see you." "Yeah, you too." "I'm OK, are you?" "Yeah." "So I finally get to meet George, then." "Yep, he's over there playing." "He might be a bit shy at first but let's go and see." "Oh, George." "He's always a bit shy." "Come on." "Hiya, George." "You going to say hi?" "George." "Look what Nick's got there." "A rugby ball." "Do you want to play some ball?" "You never turn down a game of football or rugby." "Rugby's your fave." "You all right?" "I'm scared." "Why are you scared?" "HE MUMBLES" "I knew he'd be shy." "Shall we go over there and play some ball?" "Place some catch?" "Yeah?" "Come on, then." "You can do, yeah." "Yeah." "Bang." "Yeah." "See?" "Bit closer and it would have gone over." "Yes." "See?" "Nearly." "George, at first, seemed a bit like, "Oh, Mummy," a bit shy, but the football and the rugby balls obviously just bonded them together." "You know, look at them." "To George, that's just like golden time." "George loves playing sport and just kicking a ball about." "This is, like, the first time George has met anybody who is like him and, at this moment in time, George wants to be what Nick is now when he's older." "Bring them over, George." "I can let you have a go with the fire engine and squirt some water." "Yay." "And try a firefighter's uniform on." "Can I do the nee-naw thing?" "Yeah, of course you can, yeah." "Do you get bullied?" "It's not very nice, is it?" "That's not very nice." "You're not a loser." "He's a loser." "I was like you when I was younger." "I was born..." "I was born a girl and now I'm a boy." "I did, yeah, when I was in school and through my teenage years." "I'm dizzy." "Are you?" "Eh?" "He seems really enamoured and impressed by you." "It's been really nice, actually." "A little bit emotional, if I'm honest." "Yeah, I felt emotional watching you both playing ball and stuff." "It was nice because I can relate to George at his age and how I felt and my escape was playing sports." "Yeah." "He's looking forward to coming to the fire station." "This is it." "See, he was so excited but I think now, because he's met you, he'll really, really be looking forward to it so much more now as well." "Definitely." "Are you going to say bye to Nick?" "It was nice meeting you." "I'll see you on station." "OK." "On station." "Reporting for duty?" "On station, yeah." "See you on station." "See you later." "See you later." "I'll ring you later, yeah?" "OK." "Bye." "Come on, George." "Bye!" "Bye, George." "InLeicester,thetimehascome for Paddy to choose her new summer school uniform." "Oh, my God, Paddy, look at this." "Boots." "Where?" "Where?" "Where?" "Where?" "Where?" "Where?" "What boots?" "What boots?" "Are they too sparkly even for you?" "They can't be too sparkly for her." "Yeah, they can't!" "Is there anything to sparkly for her?" "Too sparkly doesn't even make sense!" "What should be a simple task for most families can be life-changing for transgender children, as they decide whether to go to school as a boy or a girl." "Right, now, if you want a girl's uniform, we'll look at getting you a girl's uniform next year and you can wear girl's uniform to school next year." "If you want to stick with the boy's uniform, that's fine." "You can wear a boy's uniform next year." "OK." "Which one do you want to look at or do you want to look at both?" "Just one." "Which one do you want to look at?" "Girl's uniform or boy's uniform?" "Boy's." "So, how come you want to stay in boy's uniform?" "Because they've already seen me as a boy." "She basically has that fear that people who know her as a boy and see her as a girl are going to go..." "Make fun, whatever." "And she seems to think that, when she goes to big school as a girl, nobody will recognise her." "We've always followed her pace." "She leads the way." "If she wanted to change her mind tomorrow and say," ""I'm sick of all this, it's just a phase, give me a haircut," ""get me in boy's clothes," that's what we'll do, you know?" "That will never happen." "That will never happen, no!" "I know!" "I'm just saying that as an example." "Some children decide not to continue with their transition but Paddy is determined about her future as a girl andtotellthe worldherstory ." "I had one before." "I only wore it at home." "What would make you most happy, then?" "They actually knew I was a girl." "I'm not a boy." "Would you like to be a girl all the time?" "Yep." "I wish I could but I can't." "Firefighter Nick has invited George to his work for a guided tour, andNanhascomealong,too." "Hi, George." "Hi." "Do you want to have a climb up?" "It's a chance for Nick to show George that the future for a trans person can be bright." "I put this on, and I breathe." "HE BREATHES NOISILY" "Onto your face." "Got a good seal there?" "You probably haven't got a good seal, but breathe." "When we go to a fire, and I'm driving and I want the blue lights on, I press that there." "Have you ever actually been on the front seat?" "Here?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I drive sometimes." "It's a bit like..." "It is a bit." "It's a real, live Fireman Sam..." "HORN BLASTS" "What does that mean?" "It's an air horn." "Hose reel." "You would push that." "Yeah, just like a big garden hose, isn't it?" "Things to break in." "This is our breaking in locker." "Would you like one of those?" "Yeah." "You could smash windows." "While George is at the fire station, mum Hayley is able to take out his identical twin sister Jasmine and their older sister Amber for their favourite treat." "Which would you like, Amber?" "Let me see." "Oh, that's lovely." "It'sthefirsttimeinyears  they've been able to spend time with their mum without George." "Do you get a chance to go out much and do girlie things?" "We do sometimes, but obviously having George with us..." "It's not his thing, obviously." "So, kind of, we have to do something that everybody wants to do." "If George was still a girlie girl, then we could, but he's just not." "I'm happy to have my brother George, but I just don't spend much time with my mummy alone." "Do you not?" "Do you mind?" "Do you miss hanging out with your mum?" "To help ease the tension between the twins, mum Hayley is determined to spend more time with each of her children individually, and also as a family." "It's nice, just us girls, isn't it?" "Yeah?" "So do you think we should try and make some time to make more of these girlie days?" "Yeah." "Yeah?" "What would you like to do next time?" "Swimming." "Swimming, OK." "In bikinis." "In bikinis?" "OK." "I'm not getting a bikini on." "I'm not." "Do you want to pop my helmet on?" "Why do you have to wear a helmet?" "To protect your head." "How do you like that?" "Are you going to switch it off?" "I've got a little present for you here." "It's not the same as mine, but it's just as good." "There you go." "Fits better, doesn't it?" "What it's like to meet someone like yourself?" "Different." "Different?" "Strange." "Strange." "But in a good way, though?" "Because we're just normal people, aren't we?" "So I class you as my friend now." "Am I your friend?" "So if you ever need anything, George, you can phone me, you know." "You'll be OK, George." "You will be OK." "Do you trust me when I say that?" "Good." "Cos you will be." "Just remember, follow your dreams." "Do whatever you want to do." "Going to give me a high five, then." "Have to do the other hand." "That's a big high five." "Big slap." "Yeah, that's the one." "'I want to make things as easy as possible for him." "'I just hope that he feels comfortable' in asking the right questions and not feel ashamed of being who he is." "Are you going to help me push it up?" "Ready?" "Big muscles." "Go on, go on." "That's the one." "Right, we're ready." "I hope I can be someone that George looks up to and does confide in." "If he has got them questions, then he can come and speak to me." "And I hope that we will have a relationship where he will feel comfortable." "I mean, there's probably things that he'd want to speak to me about and not speak to his mum about." "And I can answer them fears for him." "Better look after those helmets." "See you later." "Bye." "Bye now." "Bye." "What's inside?" "TodayisPaddy'seighthbirthday" "And she's been given a Frozen cake, dresses and jewellery." ""Dear Paddy." "Happy eighth birthday."" "A scooter!" "Whee!" "We've been very surprised with some of the presents." "Um, the dress she is wearing was a big surprise." "And a lovely surprise." "We got that from Lorna's brother." "Never voiced one way or the other where they're stood on the transgender side of it, but the presents that Paddy's received from them have been very, very girlie." "12-year-old Robbie has also learned to accept Paddy's change fromboyto girl." "As far as I am concerned, I'm the youngest son." "WOMAN:" "Butyouare ." "And I have three sisters." "And four brothers." "Which is more even than five brothers and two sisters." "Paddy and Lorna are holding a party, but have only invited family." "At the moment if she was to invite her school friends, she'd be wearing boys' clothes." "And she'd be sort of hiding, you know, for fear - "Oh, someone might tease me" ""if they know I've got a pretty necklace."" "Got that in her mind at the moment." "I do think that's my own fault." "Er..." "Because of my own fears and..." "You know, I wanted her to think carefully before she went to school as a girl, because I was afraid that she will get bullied." "Mum and Dad are aware that Paddy's journey may not be straightforward." "Do you think you'll be able to invite some more of your friends from school next year?" "Maybe." "Other children complimenting you on your top that you wore when you went to that birthday party?" "Yeah." "Ollie was there." "Yeah, he..." "It was actually his sister's birthday." "Yeah, you've had a few of your friends see you walking down the street in your girlie clothes, haven't you?" "Yeah." "She didn't even notice." "They realise you like girlie stuff." "They don't know necessarily that you're trans, but they know you like girlie stuff." "So it's just follows that you'd like wearing nice girlie clothes." "It doesn't bother your friends." "That's just Paddy being Paddy." "They're not bothered." "Do you feel more confident now as a girl, Paddy?" "Are you getting more confident all the time with your hair getting longer and looking girlier and living girlier?" "Yeah!" "Yeah." "Come on, what would make you happy in the future?" "Getting married as a girl." "Getting married as a girl, yeah?" "Yeah." "That'd make you happy, yeah?" "Yeah." "Really, really, really, really, really, really happy!" "There are families out there that do get a lot of negative feedback." "It's totally..." "It's so wrong." "Each and every one of those children, and there are lots and lots of them out there that are going through this, need acceptance from all the people around them." "This is why I want the world to be all better by the time she grows up." "I want the world to be accepting and no problem." "You can go in whatever toilet you want, you can date who you want." "You know, you can live as you are, who you are." "And be accepted for who you are." "And be accepted by everybody." "And you are not going to have a problem in the whole world." "It's going to be fine." "That is what I want." "But that's the hardest thing for me, is the fear of that future not being like that." "You know, being how it is now, I suppose." "Yeah." "That's the hardest thing for me." "Britain'sgirlsarebecoming... ..men." "We'llmeettransgenderteens..." "It doesn't even look like the same person." "That's mental." "..forced to take drastic steps..." "Two months." "Nine months." "34 months on T." "..to change their bodies for ever." "I'm glad it'll be done soon." "They're injecting powerful male hormones..." "It's like the start of the rest of my life in this little bottle." "..and even constructing their very own penises." "People have asked for eight, nine inches." "We're not making porn stars." "They'll become the men they've always wanted to be." "SubtitlesbyEricsson"