Glowing reviews of this documentary describe it thus: " The ever important voice of the trans community is told through the experience of Georgie Stone. ...Not just a story of her gender reassignment but a story of a young woman and fighting for what she believes in. .." ..."Georgie is the real superstar - a young lady who put herself through a court case that had the potential to change the lives for the better of thousands of kids."

I see it differently - I see the story of the life of a strong, talented and probably gay child blown off course by aggressive medicalisation. What was the medical advice given to the Stone family which made them believe that the only way to manage Georgie's gender dysphoria was to turn his body into the facsimile of a girl, obliging their healthy young son to take "puberty blocking" drugs (licensed to treat a pathology known as "early onset puberty"), take female hormones for life and finally undergo complex and risky cosmetic surgery to create a prosthetic vagina rendering Georgie sterile and a lifelong medical patient in the process?

Were they not informed that: "Across all eleven long term studies ever done on gender dysphoric children, between 60% and 90% desist by puberty" That is, no longer feel uncomfortable in the bodies they were born in. "The vast majority of children who voice the desire to be the opposite sex will eventually change their minds, growing up to be gay as an adult". Perhaps the Stones were told that it was "better to have a happy daughter than a dead son" having been scared by misused transgender suicide rates. (See "The End of Gender" by Dr Debra Soh - Sexologist and neuroscientist). Whatever the reason, the Stone family was persuaded to take a radical and irreversible medicalised option.

Scientific data indicate that managed with love and care, and without resorting to medical intervention, Georgie would likely have grown up to be a healthy, untroubled and attractive gay guy who could have had children. Medical transition would always be there as an option for the adult Georgie if the gender dysphoria persisted.

I wish Georgie a happy and healthy life as a transwoman, despite the medical and social hurdles which will stand in her way, but mourn the ghost of the gay guy Georgie whose identity was denied.