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Help! Mother of 15-year-old ftm transgender

LegacyUser · 2011-10-17 11:58:32

Hi all, my 15-year-old daughter told me a couple of months ago that she considers herself to be a boy. She dresses in boys clothes, wears her hair short, uses a boy's name and is thrilled when someone mistakes her for a boy. She was over the moon the other day when we went shopping and I bought her boxer shorts :) I have…

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#62 08-05-2013 1:39pm
Annasopra

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An excellent article that I just came across written by a parent of a trans guy

http://transformingfamily.net/2013/05/05/criticisms-and-misconceptions/

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
Terry Pratchet

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#63 08-05-2013 3:42pm
Ambersky

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Great thread. Hadnt seen it untill today.

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