‘She knew before she could read’: The reality of raising a trans childThe Spinoff Daily, Wednesday January 15
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“When my daughter Marie was born, everyone, including me, thought she was a boy. She started telling my partner and I that she wasn’t as soon as she learned to express herself. Many months later, when we finally understood what she was trying to tell us, that she was a girl and definitely not a boy, it took even more time to accept and act on it. We knew vaguely that gender non-conforming and transgender kids face a lot of bullying and friction in their lives and we didn’t want her to have to go through any of that. We were trying to protect her. We were both afraid. That was almost a decade ago. We eventually realised we were wrong and set about raising the child we are now proud to call our daughter. Letting Marie take the lead on asserting her own identity was not an easy choice, nor was it one we made lightly, regardless of what the media or right-wing politicians want to tell you about parents of trans kids. We did not know any trans adults and had no friends with trans children. We had no ‘trans agenda’ as we did not even have a working understanding of what being transgender meant.”
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‘She knew before she could read’: The reality of raising a trans child
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