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A transgender couple have admitted that they were shocked by people’s reaction when they revealed they were bringing up their child as gender neutral.

Louise and Charlie Draven are the biological parents of Star Cloud and are both currently preparing to go through surgery to change genders.

However, when they revealed that they were bringing up Star as gender neutral, they were left heartbroken by the reaction.

According to the pair they were hit by online trolls who accused their then four-year-old child of being a ‘serial killer.’


While talking on This Morning, they opened up on the reaction and spoke about how it left them feeling.

Transgender couple were shocked at trolls’ reaction to them saying they were bringing up child gender neutral (Picture: ITV)

Charlie said: ‘I don’t know but basically when I was reading some of the comments on social media it was centered around myself and our son.



‘They attacked me for how I looked, and the choices I made personally, and attacked my son saying that he was basically going to be a serial killer when he grew up. They said he had serial killer eyes.’

He continued: ‘He was four years old when adults found it acceptable to go online and attack an innocent child. We haven’t told him anything about this.

‘We’ve showed him the photos, we’ve showed him he was on TV, and he was in the papers and he thought it was fun.’

According to Louise, little Star is starting to identify himself as a ‘he’ and is taking his parents’ change ‘really well.’

They say their five-year-old son is taking their change well (Picture: ITV)

Charlie continued: ‘He has a five-years-old’s understanding. He knows mummy is going to a doctor and they’re going to take her ducky away.

‘He looked at Louise and went “you’re going to be away for a week bring me a present back.”‘

‘Then he looked at me and was like “You’re going to get a ducky and you’re going to stand up and be able to wee like me.”‘

But despite the pair explaining their choices viewers still were left divided over what they believed was right for their child.

One wrote: ‘I get that the couple want to swap genders, they are old enough to know, but raising their child as gender neutral&giving them a quite feminine name just makes me think they wanted their child to also be transgender so they had a big story on how they are all trans (sic)’

Another commented: ‘I honestly don’t know what the fuss is about raising a child gender neutral and the parents being transgender, if the child is happy and healthy then that’s the main thing! (sic)’

Someone else said: ‘I would like to think I’m open minded but I’m not sure what to think about this couple on this morning, both are swapping genders and they have a son who they are bringing up gender neutral, how confusing must this be for 5 year old! (sic)’

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