National Domestic Violence Awareness Project

profeminist:

Growing-up-trans 

“We’re often told we ‘made our child trans’ because it’s ‘trendy’. 1) I can’t make my kids eat broccoli let alone perform gender  2) I think we’d have picked something that doesn’t risk our kid having their head kicked in. 

I’ve met & spoken to hundreds of families with trans kids, both in the UK & around the world. I have yet to meet a single parent who had any awareness of trans kids before their child came out. I know it is hard for people to understand because it was hard for us too.

We were woefully unaware of trans folk, safe in a privilaged happy cocoon. The growing realisation that our child was trans disrupted our ignorance. I’m not going to lie, it was frightening. We took a long time to figure out what was going on with our kid & learn to accept her

As parents in that situation you’re faced with two choices; Love & support your kid, listen & accept & love their identity & give them space to explore or; Deny their identity & become their first bully. There is no middle ground.”  

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