Mum of transgender 8-year-old forced to hide blades & scissors over fears child would cut off penis (Photos)

The mum of a transgender eight-year-old had to hide blades and scissors because she was scared she would off her penis.

Avery Jackson was just four when she confessed to mum Debi, 41, that she was in fact a girl and desperately unhappy with her body.

The little girl, then living as a boy, heartbreakingly began asking about dying and told her parents he wanted to get rid of his male parts because they were ‘in the way’.

Panicked that he might harm himself, the full time mum and husband Tom started to hide all the sharp objects in their house and Avery began to live as a female.

They bought the schoolgirl , of Kansas, United States, girls’ clothes and she started to wear them to school for the first time, which Debi said made her a lot happier…