When asked about her non-binary kid Madi, Trisha Goddard responded passionately.
The 66-year-old TV host has two children from a previous marriage: her daughter Billie and her youngest kid Madi, who uses they/them pronouns.
Non-binary is an umbrella word for those who have gender identities that do not fit into the standard gender dichotomy of man and woman.
During the latest episode of TalkTV, the former Dancing on Ice star discussed the new NHS plan which will allow children as young as seven to receive transgender treatment, according to the Telegraph.
Talking about the situation to presenter Kevin Lister, Trisha began: ‘My child is trans… not transgender and I think that’s where a lot of people in your position don’t understand the difference.
‘My child does not want to go into another sexuality. My child feels equally male and female, and wants nothing medical done to their body at all.’
The legendary TV host later explained that Madi, 28, ‘feels between the sexes.’
She continued: ‘Because I’ve been thrust into this, there’s about…. it’s all the way across. It’s not just “you want to become a man, you want to become a woman. There’s about a zillion things in between which many people don’t understand, which fit into the pain and the suicide rate.
‘I can tell, as a mental health campaigner that they are much higher amongst these kids before they see anybody that can give them medical advice.’
Trisha previously told Kaye Adams‘ podcast How to Be 60 listeners what she replied when Madi came out to her.
”You are my baby, you are Madi,”‘ she said. ‘”I will always talk to you, and address you, as Madi, what you want to be called, I’ll do my best.”‘
‘I could understand gay’, she told the podcast. ‘I could understand I had a gay daughter – a queer daughter as they call it now.’
‘[And] then I had to learn the “I don’t feel male, I don’t feel female” kind of thing. I had to wrap my head around it.’
Source My Celebrity Life.
