Our Story
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Telling our Children their Parent is Transgender
It was important for the kids to find out as early as possible. They needed time to process and adjust before they started to see physical changes. Brooke was going to start taking hormones and we didn’t know how quickly physical changes would happen. This is where research let me down. I spent afternoons and…
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The Emotional Days that Followed
The following days were all about research. I buy books, when I’m feeling overwhelmed or unsure of something. The one that helped me the most during these first few weeks was “Love Lives Here” by Amanda Jette Knox. We were not ready to tell anyone else, so I felt alone at the beginning. We quickly…
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Therapy & Research Time
It’s not easy knowing that there is something you need to talk about, but no one in your inner circle can really help you (at least in my case). If I knew there were easy answers to my questions, I would have asked them years ago. As I’ve mentioned previously, the most information I could…
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The Night I Came Out
The night I came out to Cathy was not what I expected it to be. There are some things you can prepare for or have a good idea how things are going to go. This was not one of those things. The summer of 2021 seemed to be normal. Though, a few things happened that…