Parents announce both of their young children are transgender

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He’s a transgender 11-year-old — and his 7-year-old sibling is now transitioning, too.

And the children’s parents, Sara Kaplan and her husband, Ben, of Berkeley, Calif., say that’s fine with them.

“We’re not going to allow our kids to feel shame or fear — they deserve to feel loved and accepted,’’ Kaplan told Barcroft TV of Britain.

She and her husband had a biological daughter 11 years ago and then a biological son four years later. The children’s birth names were not revealed.

But the firstborn decided by age 8 that she was really a he and began socially transitioning, which included getting shorter hair, buying boys’ clothes and using male pronouns.

Now known legally as James Kaplan, the 11-year-old has begun taking hormone blockers to prevent him from entering puberty as a girl and getting his period and developing breasts. Testosterone injections are still down the road.

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The reason that we chose to be public at this point is because having two transgender children is not that unique, but it’s very difficult to advocate for the second child without it looking like there’s a problem in the house,” Kaplan said. “It looks like there is an agenda, like the mother is sick, and that’s not the case here.”

The kids’ father, Ben, added, “We are going about this because we are listening to our children.”

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