If You Missed It: A Mother’s Transition Story

Last week Ferndale Patch ran a three-part series written by a mother about her experience with her transitioning child. Her daughter, one night when she was 15, said she was a boy. And the transition from female to male, and also from a daughter to a son, began.

Part One: The Beginning ran on Ferndale Patch July 6.

The story started: My son is transgender. He was born 21 years ago in a female body. He was raised as a girl. He used to be my only daughter.

I remember the first time he told me. He was 15 years old. It was late  and the rest of the family was in bed. The two of us were sitting up on the living room couch. Kyle was struggling with his homework, and I could see that he was becoming upset. What I didn’t know yet was that he was wresting with something much larger.

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Part Two: The Transition ran on July 7.

The daughter now has a boy's name, a new identifier (no longer a she), living full time as a boy. The mother writes about the support she gave Kyle as a mother even though it was difficult to watch the process.

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Part Three: A Mother’s Transition Story: Part 3: Loving My Son, Losing My Daughter ran on July 8.

The mother loves her new son. He is now a confident young man. She supported his decision, his transition, and his new life. But, the mother realizes she went through a transition of her own, one where she lost her daughter and found her son.

Read it .

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