World’s Youngest Trans Model Has Two Trans Parents, Will Have “Gender Surgery” At 16
A 10-year-old child is making headlines as the world’s youngest trans model to walk the runway at New York Fashion Week after representing the Trans* Clothing Company brand.
Noella McMaher was a model at New York Fashion Week in February, but the child’s story has begun to receive additional media attention after it was announced that the 10-year-old had been signed on for modeling gigs until November.
According to Noella’s parents, the child began expressing gender dysphoria around age 2.
Referring to the boy using feminine pronouns, Noella’s mother stated: “She would refuse to wear boy clothes and have tantrums because she was so young. She knew what she wanted, but didn’t have the words to say it … I should have known earlier, as she hated anything masculine, so I brought her to a gender clinic.”
At age 4, Noella was “socially transitioned,” referring to a process in which a child is “affirmed” in their chosen gender identity by presenting as that gender while in public. It was around this time Noella’s mother said she brought the child to therapy at the gender development clinic at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. During the appointments, Noella told a gender counsellor he was a “girl.” By Age 6, Noella’s legal documentation had already been changed.
But information on the child’s family is often left out of the glowing profiles.
Dee McMaher, Noella’s biological mother, is a social justice advocate who identifies as non-binary, appears to be on hormone replacement therapy, and recently had a cosmetic mastectomy. Both she and her current partner are females who identify as trans masculine.
According to the Point Foundation website, McMaher, neé Kalick, has been an “advocate and educator” for transgender children for 10 years — roughly since around the time Noella was born.
In 2019, McMaher and Noella were featured in People’s World during a legal episode in which McMaher was fighting for full custody of her child from her biological father, Timothy McCord.
According to McMaher, McCord had been opposed to 4-year-old Noel’s transgender identity. McCord and McMaher had been separated at the time, but the father had visitation rights and the two parents shared child-care duties during the week while she was at work. At the time, McMaher was employed at the Rainbow Family Support Center as a transgender advocate, and McCord’s visitation often included making dinner and putting Noella to bed.
In July of 2016, McCord caused a fracture in Noella’s arm, something McMaher stated happened while he was forcing Noella into “boy pajamas.” McCord is reported to have then given Noella medication and sent the child to sleep. The next morning, after Noella expressed pain, McMaher reported McCord to child protective services and he was arrested on charges of aggravated child abuse.
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