Our Story
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The First Weeks and Name Options
Those first weeks are a bit of a blur. I remember Cathy being very supportive. She has been supportive of the LGTBQ community, so why would this be different. She would ask questions and entertain my comments and concerns. We were in this secret situation together trying to sort it all out on our own.
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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