LETTER TO THE EDITOR
I was thinking about how I could best describe to someone else how it is to have a transgendered child, and this is what I thought: It’s like your child just died, and you so desperately want her back, that you make a plea to God: “God, please just bring my child back to life. I’ll do anything at all—- name it, just give her back to me.” And God says, ” ok, you can have your child back, but she will have to be a he.” So you say, “ok, anything, just give my child back to me.” Your child comes back, as promised, but now she is a he. That’s how it feels to have a transgendered child.
Only there has been a mix-up.‑ You now have a boy, but he has a girl’s body.‑ So, he’s not just a normal boy.‑‑ He will possibly face a lifetime of ridicule and shame.‑ You, as his parent, will wonder if he will ever be understood.‑ You wonder how anyone will understand. You still love that child more than anything, and if this is what you have to accept to have your child back to life, then you take the bargain, of course. You pray every day that your child will be happy and normal like every other parent does. That’s what it’s like.
A Mom
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