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@mrsjazz: Definitely would love to learn along with you, if you ever have resources to share!

Did you see the response to the Grantland story on Dr. V's Magical Putter? Learned so much from that...

http://grantland.com/features/what-grantland-got-wrong/

I cannot imagine seeing my child have such profound unhappiness and shame over living in a body they knew was not them/theirs and not supporting my child 100%. E is my love and I love her whether she is male or female; I don't only love or support her as one or the other gender.

I will absolutely always allow her to be herself (or himself) with the proper support (from me, family and professionals).

I would totally support it but if you had asked me this question 10 years ago it may have been different.

Around that time I had the opportunity to work with a young man who was Korean American, had severe autism, was nonverbal and transgender (female to male). He dressed as a boy and peed standing up and basically lived as a boy.
One of the first things he communicated when he got a voice output device was that he was a boy and he wished he had a penis.

It blew my mind and uncovered some stereotypes and prejudices I didn't even know I had.

I apparently had an idea in my head of what a person with autism was like and what a transgender person was like and never the two shall meet....until they did. I realized how little I understand what happens in the minds and bodies of others.

My childhood best friend was born a female and has since transitioned to be male. I think in hindsight I knew he was meant to be a boy by maybe age 5 or so (not that I knew anything about trans people as a kid in the 80s). In high school he nearly killed himself (pre-transition) and suffered from anorexia, cutting, etc. After seeing him go through all he went through, and how happy and fulfilled he is as a male, I couldn't imagine not supporting my child 100% to be who they feel they were meant to be.