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Trisha Goddard gave a passionate response when talking about her non-binary child Madi.
The TV presenter, 66, has two children from a previous relationship – her daughter Billie and her youngest child Madi, who uses they/them pronouns.
Non-binary is an umbrella term applied to people with gender identities that fall outside of the traditional gender binary 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.’
‘My child is trans… not transgender (Picture: TalkTV)
The TV host acknowledged it has been a ‘learning process’ for her to understand the language of they/them pronouns (Picture: Getty Images)
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 listeners what she said when Madi came out to her onKaye Adams’ podcast How to Be 60.
”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.’
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Trisha has two children from a previous relationship – her daughter Billie and her youngest child Madi,