My daughter came out as transgender a little more than a year ago. It was no surprise to me and my wife. We had thought it was a possibility for several years. Nearly all her friends were girls, and, at home, she sometimes wore my wife's clothes. Like most parents, we just want our daughter, who was then in the fifth grade, to be happy, productive and successful, and that hasn't changed since she came out. She announced in a letter to her schoolmates and their families that she was transgender and that while her new name was Maddie, which she had picked, she was still the same person. "In my case, I am one of those unusual people who was born as a boy but my whole life I have felt like I am a girl," she wrote."I am transgender." An older girl she didn't know came up to her in the playground and congratulated her for her courage. "If anyone gives you any trouble, let me know, and I'll give them a black eye," she said. When Maddie's doctor, a specialist in transgender care, told her a couple weeks ago she could begin taking female hormones, my 12-year-old… Read full this story
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