Meet 6-Year-Old Boy Who Desperately Wants to be a Girl

A six-year-old child tried to pull off his penis and refused to drink water at school to avoid using the boy’s toilets in a desperate attempt to become a little girl.

Baylin Carmichael (now called by feminine name, Briella) was born a boy but she has been identifying as a girl since she was a toddler. The year one student from Melbourne was diagnosed with gender dysphoria last September after his parents sought help when he said he wanted to live as a girl.

According to Daily Mail, his mother, Mrs Carmichael said that since he (or she) could even walk he’s gone for the girly things (toys, dresses).

She said,

He started telling me when he looked in the mirror he sees a girl. Once he asked if he was going to grow up and look like his dad with facial hair. He was hysterical and uncontrollably crying when I said yes. He would ask ‘why wasn’t I born a girl?’ and ‘will my willy (penis) go away?’. ‘I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I didn’t have the answers. I knew this wasn’t normal and thought we needed to get help.

People had said Baylin was going to be gay, but I had no idea it would be to this extent.’

Mrs Carmichael said the final straw came when her child started to harm himself.

‘He started to harm himself downstairs. It was over a period of time and I don’t know how long for. He tried to rip (his penis) off and it swelled up and got infected. He was also off school for a week for being dehydrated. He had stopped drinking because he didn’t want to use the boy’s toilets. He was so dehydrated his lips were all chapped.’

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Briella’s parents started attending transgender information sessions before they decided to see a gender specialist with their child. He was then diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

‘At home we were calling her Briella and the family started using female pronouns – she requested us to. Slowly over time we started buying girl stuff. It made her so happy.’

Mrs Carmichael said the next step will be legally changing her son (daughter)’s name to Briella, but admitted it would be a difficult step.

‘It’s a huge thing, but I know that she’s not going to go back,’ she said. ‘People don’t understand what us parents have to go through to get to this point. I had so many sleepless nights where I’d cry thinking is this the right thing?’

Mrs Carmichael said she won’t speak about other options like hormone therapy with her daughter until she approaches her about it when she is older.