The 11-Year-Old Best Friends Transitioning Together | MY TRANS LIFE

Just because I'm

trans

gender doesn't mean I'm different in any way or that I'm a bad person. I'm normal like everyone else. I'm glad I have

friends

who really understand what I'm going through. It feels great because now I know who I am and who I was meant to be. I really like this t-shirt that says "I was born a unicorn" because you know I was born in Munich and also this t-shirt has a little foreshadowing of what you might see. I also like this shirt, as you know, I think it's very pretty with all the stars and colors.

I think it's really cool. When he was two

year

s old, he started asking for different types of toys and then I think that was the first big thing we did. What I noticed was that I wanted to dress up a Cinderella for Halloween shorts. I like them here, put them out like this because you know it has lace and stuff, which I think is super pretty, so right before her eighth birthday, she came out of her room one morning and she was like I'm Lilly all the time now I just wear girl pronouns and I won't be Jack anymore.

I like this side where it was really super psychedelic, probably first through third grade was when I would like it. Boyd a lot, you know, sometimes I was very sad going to school because I knew that they would make fun of me or bully me or tell me that I shouldn't be Queen, because you know, in second grade I was still saying my old name, so that was like a week before you were born hmm and that's your first picture screaming baby like it's you I used to cut your hair did you know you hated it and would you like it if you screamed at me all the time?

Oh, I'm Sorry, you're choosing your Caroline, so yeah, on your seventh birthday we went to the American Girl store, had lunch, yeah, I called ahead to make sure it was okay for no one to tell us anything. Hmm, is it strange looking at that photo? I know, yeah, why is it weird? You just need to make it look like you know it's not me, to me. I was definitely nervous just because she was a baby. You know she was six

year

s old. I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact that she knew that she. She was a girl and how could a girl that age know that?

Yeah, you know, I just didn't understand it and I looked into it and found out that she's not the only one. I think the support system is the most important part of going through this process as parents. of a

trans

child, there are people like me and then I realize you know I'm not the only transgender person in the world. They see that there is a really big community here, huge, and it's very comforting to me that there are other kids and they're all the same Adrienne, it's really great to have that support system. We immediately became

friends

.

I like that this person understands what I'm going through and oh my gosh she's so nice and sweet and kind yeah and me. She wanted to be her friend when Fiona was young. I really thought she had a guy who liked girly things. Well, right now I admit that I'm friends with a girl named Isabel and say, "She said me." I only have friends and I think, but I'm a girl, she doesn't feel good in the body she had before and now that she's happy, what she is now is good, I don't really think about anything different.

The highlight moment for me when I knew I really couldn't go another day without

transitioning

was one night we were getting ready for bed and she said mom, I need to tell you that I think I was supposed to be born a girl and Le I said honey, why do you think that? And she said okay, because I have a girl's brain and a girl's heart and I knew at that moment that I needed to raise her differently. Couldn't she just deny that? As I did? The first thing I know is that she was probably her whole

life

and we became friends because we were both the same age and we were transgender, so we both got along very well.

I remember I was probably the only one in my classes who actually went out with the girls and played with the girl's toys and stuff and they felt really unusual and I felt different the first time we let her go shopping in a skirt. . She was delighted, she was dancing and happy, but also very nervous about what people would think. let's say and since she transitioned it's like she was in this little part and then she filled out this whole personality of who she is once you start reading the medical background of what gender dysphoria is and that it's a medical condition, no.

It's just a state of mind. It's not something you make up when an 8 year old girl tells you she's in the wrong body, she means it after her transition at 6, it wasn't one day, this was the happiest girl, she was just embracing

life

. , you can see that there was. this complete exuberance forgetting to be who she really was, we have received many negative responses from strangers, family, friends, people on Facebook coming out of the woodwork to let you know that you are harming your daughter by allowing her to be transgender and it is something we have simply taken away above at this moment, any mother.

I think everyone worries about their children being bullied, but when you have a transgender child, obviously, you know the fear of bullying, you just know it increases exponentially, I hope Lily is happy, that's all I want for her. I want her to feel like she can make decisions in her life that support what she feels in her heart, but as long as she is, she can wake me up in the morning like I'm Lily. about me and you would be okay with that, that's all that matters to me, she feels great because now I know who I am and who I should be.

I just want to like having people like, hey, you're cool, like there's nothing wrong here, something like that, they would know that I'm transgender and my hair is long, the way I thought about it over the years. I say, hey, this is who I am and I need you to respect it or go there, no. Don't go out with me if you don't like me, okay?