What happened in my small town when my transgender daughter transitioned
Luchina Fisher is a journalist who has covered entertainment for ABC News for the last 10 years.
The note was draped casually on my husband’s pillow but I was the first to see it.In my 11-year-old’s careful handwriting, it read: "Dear Mother and Father, can we move to a different country because I think I don’t want to be a boy lots of times ... We’ll discuss later."There were many things that struck me all at once: the formal salutation, the question of moving to another country and, in my line of work, burying the lede -- that part about not wanting to be a boy lots of times.All at once I wanted to fold my child into my arms and bury myself in my husband’s chest.
That G had not wanted to be a boy was not the most shocking. What rocked my world was that G had obviously been feeling that way for a long time and, despite my husband David and I creating an open and supportive home environment, still struggled to tell us.
Source: Yahoo News
The note was draped casually on my husband’s pillow but I was the first to see it.In my 11-year-old’s careful handwriting, it read: "Dear Mother and Father, can we move to a different country because I think I don’t want to be a boy lots of times ... We’ll discuss later."There were many things that struck me all at once: the formal salutation, the question of moving to another country and, in my line of work, burying the lede -- that part about not wanting to be a boy lots of times.All at once I wanted to fold my child into my arms and bury myself in my husband’s chest.
That G had not wanted to be a boy was not the most shocking. What rocked my world was that G had obviously been feeling that way for a long time and, despite my husband David and I creating an open and supportive home environment, still struggled to tell us.
Source: Yahoo News
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