Cheryl was my first girlfriend. Actually we were both about 6 years old at the time. Her parents lived across the street just off the public square from my grandmother. Whenever my parents took me to visit my grandmother, I was urged to go across the street to see Cheryl. I would hesitatingly walk across the street and stand on the sidewalk by the rock wall around Cheryl's house and wait for someone…
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We don't know what makes maleness or femaleness. Yet some people know from earliest childhood that their gender doesn't match their anatomy, and they need to undergo surgical transition to live as the gender they know themselves to be. There is concern, however, that some people—especially children and teenagers—who are convinced that they need to make the switch may feel otherwise over time.
Wrenching mistakes are made in both directions. While some ultimately identify as their affirmed gender, others identify as trans, which is its own vital identity. Prejudice against trans people, and trans children in particular, runs to extremes: many are murdered, and others face violence and other discrimination throughout their lives.
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G Herbkersma A thousand thanks! CA , 94606 I have entered many rooms in my 70-some years. Reading this book allowed me for the first time to enter a room in which I felt totally accepted. Thank you!
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Amy/Buck S. It's Hard to Fall Far WA It's hard to fall far from their tree. I've had the luck of being raised Unitarian Universalist, which should imply free and liberal. I have questioned my gender since toddlerhood. Thanks to my older sisters fabulous memories of mom and me arguing about my gender and whether or not I had a penis or vagina when I could barely speak yet.
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anonymous Love or six feet under VA , US My husband and I are the proud parents of two sons and a daughter. Our two sons are 23 and 21, respectively. Our daughter is 17 going on 30 and has been our daughter for close to three years. We didn't adopt her—she is our beloved daughter who was born a natal son.
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DJ came out to her brother, who informed my sisters, a lesbian and a child specialist, both left leaning, and the four… -
Candis I am the transgendered offspring of same-sex parents. My husband and I are now trying to go about adopting a child of our own. I have lived my life being the subject of much confusion for people and had to see my parents subject to the many questions you mention in your article. I grew up in the 80s when people in same-sex relationships didn't talk about their partners, much less acknowledge that…
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anonymous I am a transgender man in my twenties I am a transgender man in my twenties, happy and studying law. My parents were supportive, loving, and kind as I transitioned. Your book helped me to see the heroism in what they have shrugged off as merely good parenting. Also, thank you for your family's story in Chapter XII. Seeing another way of making a family makes it easier to envision one of my own.
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